tankman

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by tankman 16y ago
The pg apotheosis reminds me of an interesting Google talk by Robert Sutton where he reports that in research with monkeys, the dominant monkey receives a highly disproportionate amount of attention relative to that shared among subordinate
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by tankman 16y ago
This is awesome. I can't think of anything it needs except, for your own sake, maybe a visible logo. I'm sold. Questions: (1) Are you using ExtJS, GWT, jQuery? (2) What's on the backend? (3) How will you make money from this? (4) Since your
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by tankman 17y ago
"taking the piss" = "making fun of"
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by tankman 17y ago
If you only permit 20 candidates and 20 jobs, some of the attending candidates will be only be qualified to apply for a fraction of the jobs - perhaps even just one or two. For example, if a Django front-end expert shows up and only 1 compa
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by tankman 17y ago
"While blogging feuds are common, she believes the campaign against her is more likely to be because she is a woman in the male-dominated technology world."
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by tankman 17y ago
What kind of threats?
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by tankman 17y ago
How are they out-innovating American companies?
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by tankman 17y ago
Maybe you will be as surprised as I was to hear the name Stephen King mentioned in the context of writing advice, but 896 Amazon reviewers can't be wrong: Stephen King - On Writing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743455967?tag=0596800673-20&#3
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by tankman 17y ago
"I'm in the process of getting job descriptions from the attendees." How many attendees have you received commitments from?
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by tankman 17y ago
Under different conditions this would be an easy backdoor for a recruiter to sneak in for free as a candidate to quietly gather resumes at the event. But since you only permit 20 candidates and 20 jobs, the event is small enough that you sh
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by tankman 17y ago
That's all you should need - it works pretty well from what I've seen in speed dating.
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by tankman 17y ago
If you only permit 20 candidates and 20 jobs, some of the attending candidates will be only be qualified to apply for a fraction of the jobs - perhaps even just one or two. For example, if a Django front-end expert shows up and only 1 compa
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by tankman 17y ago
- How will you enforce the 5-minute time limit? Sometimes when people get into a groove and there's some chemistry - as in dating - it's hard to pull them apart. Are you going to use the same style of musical-chairs-style rotation that they
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by tankman 17y ago
It says "Participate in 20 interviews, each 5 minutes long." What if 300 candidates show up and only 10 hiring companies? In that case, will candidates be paired with companies on a first-come, first-served basis or do you have some other p
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by tankman 17y ago
Is the programming test: - online or offline? - open book or closed book? (can the candidate use the internet?) - timed or untimed?
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by tankman 17y ago
" I have a good handle on who is hiring tech talent in NYC right now " - Are you a recruiter?
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by tankman 17y ago
- How will you identify a recruiter? Often they pretend to be a hiring company. And are you committed enough to the idea of them not attending that you are willing to turn down their offers to pay the $300 attendance fee?
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by tankman 17y ago
1. Good idea. 2. Will recruiters be involved? - Recruiters are always going to try to be involved in events like this. I guarantee that recruiters will try to attend by either posing as candidates in order to meet real candidates or by actu