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by pyb 10y ago
Everybody knows one shouldn't Hire by Keyword, but they still do it. Why ? I think this is the CYA principle in play. "I hired a $keyword specialist, it clearly says so in his resume. I am limiting any blame I get if they don&#x2
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Venture Capital as a Hyperlocal Game(blog.semilshah.com)
2 points by pyb 10y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 10y ago
That's precisely why so few companies who can produce good software, are also proficient in some other area. Successful software development mostly happens when it's the main focus of the organisation. Apple used to be the promine
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by pyb 10y ago
... or a homeowner, or a rent controlled tenant, etc. Politicians are NIMBY only because they know voters are.
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by pyb 10y ago
What country are you in?
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by pyb 10y ago
You can now choose to attend for a half-batch (6 weeks).
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by pyb 10y ago
It's fine, just leave it off your resume afterwards (or have it on there as a secondary skill) if you find it embarrassing.
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by pyb 10y ago
I have the opposite experience in the UK. I have god knows how many gaps in my resume... for all sorts of reason. Probably part of the reason why I became a contractor ; as it's kinda part of the job. Anyway, interviewers have never ra
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by pyb 10y ago
Yes it's fine. In this day and age, it's almost suspicious not to have any gaps in one's tech resume. There are just so many sources of discontinuity in a career nowadays.
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by pyb 10y ago
Funding for science in the EU is already very tight. European research groups will avoid starting new collaborations with British groups, if it makes funding even less likely...
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by pyb 10y ago
In my experience, there is a large hidden cost in rejecting good candidates. I've seen first hand companies go under and projects fail, because too few employees really had the experience or ability to tackle challenging projects.
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by pyb 10y ago
Spot on. I have an open source portfolio but am always judged instead on my performance during the interview.
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by pyb 10y ago
fog creek / trello
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by pyb 10y ago
As London loses (or is on course to lose) easy access to the wider EU market, as well as its ability to recruit from abroad ... pretty much by definition, a Brexit will change that!
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by pyb 10y ago
What has he ever done, other than reletentlessy dividing his country, every way he could, for all of his 6 years ?
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by pyb 10y ago
From what I see, London's tech industry will largely shift to Berlin and other places.
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by pyb 10y ago
A couple of years ? People in the know predict more like a decade.
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by pyb 10y ago
You'll be definitely be allowed to stay in the UK, but the economy will definitely tank...
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by pyb 10y ago
If we have a Brexit, Berlin will quickly become the startup capital city in Europe. Finance might be forced to partly leave London as well.
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by pyb 10y ago
All in all, I'd say this 'classic' post was overly influencial. It has damaged to the software industry, and only contributed to making the hiring process more adversarial than it already was at the time. It's no fun bei
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by pyb 10y ago
If there was really a shortage of qualified programmers, companies would be working to improve their interview practices. From this thread, and my own experience, things are going the opposite way. Companies appear to be able to afford to u
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by pyb 10y ago
What could be the root cause of this change ? An oversupply of good candidates?
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by pyb 10y ago
Does anyone else find that the show is running out of steam ? I think the quality of the writing has gone down in this new series.
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Make Better Conference Talks(jvns.ca)
3 points by pyb 10y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 10y ago
To me anyway, this short explanation was extremely useful. I had played with simple neural nets just once in the past.
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by pyb 10y ago
I don't know if they actually are, but recruiters are definitely trying their hardest to commoditize programmers. So are many tech companies. This means for instance inventing the concept of a "$LANG developer", when many goo
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by pyb 10y ago
It is my impression that due to the Valley's housing and immigration blunders, more good startups are being founded in London and Berlin, which perhaps would have started in Silicon Valley, given the choice. But it'd be obviously
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Distributed Valley, Maybe(medium.com)
4 points by pyb 10y ago|1 comments
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by pyb 10y ago
Where do they advertise ?
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by pyb 10y ago
I see a lot of these vacancies on Indeed, etc... In my experience, usually, more than half of the reqs are fake, or misleading. These recruitment agencies are harvesting CVs, to try to place candidates into companies that they don't ac

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