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Fixing the recruiter industry | yangtheman: Folks at Hacker Dojo have been discussing holding a reverse job fair, where hackers who are in the job market come in with their craft (live demo, code samples and whatnot) and interact with other engineers or hiring managers who can recognize their mad skills and refer internally, decide who to bring in fo... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | antipimp: Hey fellas/ladies - one of my developer cronies sent this post my way and I'd LOVE to chat with some of y'all. I AM a recruiter and have been for the last 12+ years..in addition I share the exact sentiment that you have written on the pages below. Any of you wanna chat off line? If so, I'd welcome it and ... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | jbooth: Funny thing about recruiters, is going through a recruiter I've generally wound up with higher pay than doing things the other way around. They'll be their typical aggressive recruiter selves, sell me, bid me up and insist that I can't possibly work for less than X without making me seem like the prima donna..... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | shmichael: Be original. If you want something unconventional, you'll have to make it happen. Here is some inspiration:
http://www.socialmediajobs.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/20... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | adnam: I think that programmers often encounter a culture clash with recruiters. A recruiter has a client (and it's not you) and has to fill a large number of positions. I have had some awful experiences. Once, the recruiter sent a modified version of my CV to a company and exaggerated my experience in certain areas. I... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | lmedinburgh: Guys & Dolls,Recruitment is sales. 95% of your time is wasted calling clients and candidates for the one time you get a match. This is unless you manage a number of clients where you are fed requirements, and then it's just the candidate part.There is no way to escape it; the best thing to do is to shield ... |
Reasonably priced video cameras for startups? | DanielBMarkham: I love my FlipCam. I've been keeping a video diary of my startup on it, and I also used several to record my vacation to Australia and New Zealand in October.I don't think you need super-high quality, even though the FlipCams are HD. Content counts more than style or featureset. What I like about the Fl... |
What should I learn next? Python or Ruby/Rails? | gr366: Each language is relatively easy to get started with, and there are numerous free tutorials available on the web. Why not take two weeks and try each one out for a week? See how far you get building something and decide which is the best fit for you right now.If you've written a PHP app, maybe it's a good candid... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | allenbrunson: don't have much to add here except: yeah, who hasn't had bad recruiter experiences? i wish i was l33t enough that i could ignore them altogether, but i'm not.i have had a few good experiences, but even then, i've never met even one who had a good grasp of the technical skills that they are trying to sell ... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | clistctrl: I had a women ask me once if I was interested in a position writing C Pound. |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | lanstein: Dell's 24" 2408WFP can usually be found either new on eBay or refurbished through the Dell outlet for < $400. It's got a great VA panel, I have two at work and bought my own for home. It also has a million different inputs (HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.) and support for SDHC, which the predecessor (2407WFP) did n... |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | ethank: Samsung 2343BWX |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | joshu: I like using a 30" plus a rotated 22" screen.http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/12/quad-monitors-117-millio... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | adammichaelc: Dude, that's a pretty sweet problem to have. "Shoot!! all these people keep calling me about how awesome I am and how many job offers they can get me. The nerve..."Not the kind of problem to be upset about IMHO. If I were you I'd send them all Christmas cards and be glad that you're so sought after.:-) ch... |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | amandle: I recommend the Asus VW266H 25.5" 1920x1200 and about 300 dollars. Plenty of space for code. |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | noonespecial: In case my other comment gets buried, there are many panel types. I'd suggest an IPS type panel from the following list for coding or graphics work.http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/s-ips-lcd-list.php |
good accountants in the Bay Area? | dnsworks: I've been using Maria Ku for years. She saved my backside when I first started consulting and didn't consider the tax implications of my actions. Her rates are fair, and she's easy to work with. I've never actually met her as she's in Oakland and I try not to bridge & tunnel it.Maria Ku (510) 531-6614 maria.k... |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | dnsworks: I'm pretty in love with my Gateway FHD2401 24" laptop. It's 1920x1200, and so bright I don't bother with the screen on my MBP anymore. It's specs came in comparable with >$500 monitors, and it had quite a number of good marks in the various sites that reviewed it. I think I paid $360 with shipping. |
newmogul no more? | allenbrunson: it has been gone for some time now. looks like that community is reforming here: http://www.markenomics.com/ |
Extracting the Twitter Social Graph | collint: Hmmm. I don't have it. If you don't find it, get whatever sample of the graph you can now. If you can get people excited about the idea you can make it happen. |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | itsmin: Hi everyone, We've updated our policies http://bit.ly/4NKGHm so please give them a read, and check here http://bit.ly/7b4yF2 for a comment about an upcoming feature that addresses an additional concern. And thanks again for all the great comments! |
Are there any information or assumptions about iTunes.com architecture? | mahmud: Which part of "itunes" specifically? The network/distribution architecture? the security model? the social aspects? the business processes? |
Authorize.net for non-US company | known: You may check http://www.ccavenue.com/content/comparative.jsp |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | mgrouchy: I don't think its unethical at all.I think you did more than most would in trying to contact the buildItWith me guys and that is certainly commendable.I also don't think there is any confusion between the two products(From a look and feel perspective) so no harm no foul. The internet is filled with people tak... |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | tortilla: Honestly, I think your (original) site looks better.It (updated site) has a similar layout, but that's about it. You didn't copy their look, maybe their layout. But if you asked someone on the street, I doubt there would be any confusion.edited: in parentheses to clarify |
Extracting the Twitter Social Graph | jdrock: Check out Infochimps - they have a big Twitter data dump. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | overgard: From a philosophical standpoint, I don't think you were wrong to borrow interface ideas.(I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds to say though, that while copying some of their better ideas, I think you may have also copied some of their worse ideas. The way scrolling works on both sites is very confusing -- yo... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | maxdemarzi: When other people call you a "Hacker", then you are a "Hacker".... until then you are a "Software Developer". |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | oneplusone: It's fine to steal interface ideas. However, I think you took a step backwards in doing so. Yes, what you had wasn't very good. However, what you have now is even worse. Your original implementation was on the right track and just needed some refinement. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | notaddicted: I call myself a computer programmer because I program computers. Administration, Theory, Hardware, Engineering, those I consider supporting skills, not the main attraction. |
Anyone is using a comment system? | transmit101: Disqus seems to be pretty much becoming the accepted comments system.It works well, there's a ton of options to allow users to sign in (Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Yahoo and others, and I recommend it. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | mattmaroon: It's not only ethical, it's dumb not to. It's what businesses have been doing since time immemorial. To watch your competitor improve and not do anything to compete is stupid. Ask Yahoo or KMart.From the legal angle you're probably alright. We recently built a game largely based on another game (sort of the... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | seven: I do sometimes tell people that I am a hacker.
But I make sure that the people do know or understand that I am refering to the original meaning of the word; and that I am a good guy. For me, boiling an egg in a coffee machine is hacking. I do a lot of security work, but I tell the people that even if I would hav... |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | carbocation: We have had people inform us that they were going to mimic the core idea of our site (and now they have, with venture backing). I wouldn't be worried about borrowing an interface. |
What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding? | jff: For $400 you could get about 8 of these 19-inch Sun CRTs I'm using. I know LCD is all the rage but if you have the desk space, these Trinitron screens are really sharp and have excellent picture quality. Max resolution is 1600x1200, so it's not a 200:5 aspect ratio or whatever the kewl kidz are using these days. I... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | jlgosse: I just tell people I'm a software developer, because all I do is develop software. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | felideon: Obligatory quote? "Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Attributed to Picasso |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | gte910h: Yes, it's called competing. |
Anyone is using a comment system? | bmickler: I'm using Disqus and it's working out well. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | c_allison: I would say it depends on the person your talking to. To most people, a "hacker" is a "cracker". A geek, loves card games and anime. A nerd loves thick books. But a programmer? They do magical things to computers, something people acceptedly don't understand, and theres no hard stereotypes regarding.You cert... |
Anyone is using a comment system? | blister: I use Disqus for everything. I can't say enough great things about them. Totally easy integration and all the sexy features that you'd want in a comment system.The only thing I would be concerned with is how they plan on making money in the future. Would suck to pick them and have them go out of business. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | hxa7241: Yes, copying is fundamentally moral/ethical. (Although where it conflicts with a law, like copyright, it is another question -- does the law have precedence?)(As I have written in other places:) To evaluate something morally, we can follow Kant (in 'Groundwork For The Metaphysic Of Morals'), whose fundamental ... |
Anyone is using a comment system? | jporta: +1 Disqus |
Anyone is using a comment system? | cout: If you're worried about disqus going away, then export your comments periodically so you have a backup of them somewhere. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | mtinkerhess: The problem with calling yourself a hacker is that inevitably non-hackers don't understand what you mean. Then you have to explain yourself, and you end up seeming more interested in how you are labeled than what you do.That or you end up sounding like Lex from Jurassic Park who "prefer(s) to be called a h... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | mattmaroon: I don't think I'd ever use that term. To someone who doesn't know what it is, it sounds shady. To someone who does know, it's overly vague. It's like saying "I'm a businessman." |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | jamie_ca: Seriously, that's a step backwards. I get no overview, can't just browse, and with my browser window at 1024x768 your non-scrolling sidebar sometimes doesn't have a more info button at the bottom. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | Tawheed: Blatantly copying is a bad idea. Understanding why they're different, and figuring out the motivations behind their (different) choices and then reflecting on the choices you've made for your product is a good idea.Jason F at 37Signals wrote about this a while back: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1561-why-you-... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | edw519: Fair: Answer with a noun, "I am a computer programmer."Good: Answer with a verb, "I program computers."Better: Answer with a verb for myself and a noun for the result, "I program web applications."Even Better: Answer with a verb for myself, a noun for the result, and another noun for my customer, "I program web... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | showerst: My title is "User Interface Engineer". I tell people "I'm a Professional Nerd for (X)".It shows that I have a sense of humor about my job (a job that to many people is inscrutable).Many people in our own field don't know the difference between a web designer/developer/programmer/UI/UX/DBA, and I figure that I... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | Aegean: Now that this subject is open, let me say it: I don't think the term hacker really reflects the concept of Hacker News. Startups are focused on entrepreneurship and revenue, there is a hacker side to it but the hacker aspect is not the central point. If there would be a real hacker news, building exceptional or... |
Anyone is using a comment system? | ErrantX: I custom coded. When I built my latest project I always intended to have comments (but they are not a key feature) and for the most part assumed I would drop disqus in.Ultimately I couldnt figure out a nice way to integrate disqus tightly into the site - so the custom code added more value. It took about 100 l... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | icey: I used to spend a lot of time figuring out which way I would describe what I did to people who weren't in the industry.Now I just say that I'm in software, and it turns out that's enough 95% of the time. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | bitwize: I tell people I program robot submarines.And wait for the awesome to hit them. |
Have you ever had a founder quit or had to fire one? | Saavedro: Unless the code is difficult to understand because of what it actually -does-, rewrite it and move on. You'll be better for it in the long run with people who write understandable code.At least you didn't have one founder quit, then wind up having to fire the other (woo, Apple). |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | dmlorenzetti: How many regular HN readers think of themselves foremost as computer programmers (by whatever name)?The responses posted here so far make it sound like the solid majority. Yet there must be more people on here who, like me, just happen to do a lot of programming in the course of pursuing other goals.In s... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | igorgue: My friends and family say I "type in colors" |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | CrLf: The real meaning of the word "hacker" has been lost forever (even in technical circles) so, no, I don't call myself an "hacker".If I know the audience will understand it properly, I'll call myself a "geek". Otherwise, I'll just call myself a "computer systems administrator". |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | ax0n: I usually just tell normal people that I work with computers or that I keep bad guys out of bank accounts. It's a word that one can use in self-reference, but only once you've been accepted by other hackers as being one.It doesn't apply only to the word "hacker", though. Many labels don't mean much until you've r... |
Fixing the recruiter industry | pmichaud: Recruiters exists because of two problems:1) Programmers can't find all the jobs that are available
2) Companies aren't generally able to evaluate programmersBut #1 is less and less true, and the recruitment industry doesn't do a good job of addressing #2. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | statictype: Depending on the person asking and whether or not I'm in a conversing mood, I'd use either 'programmer' or "I do computer stuff" while making that vague and silly typing-on-keyboard gesture with my hand. |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | moron4hire: I tell people I'm a mad scientist. |
Anyone is using a comment system? | hikari17: Just thought I'd add +1 for Intense Debate. We've used it on our site's blog for a little over a year and we're quite satisfied. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | apsurd: Aren't you supposed to be developing your users?In other words, what does it matter what their site does? Your users are on your site are they not? This builditwithme "looks nice"; it has 129 people; what are you worried about?Get some feedback from the people on your site. Talk to them, find out what, how, why... |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | imp: IMHO I hate their interface. That flashy Ajax is too overwhelming. Your plain list is easier for me to read. Have you tried doing user testing with your two pages and then also test how users interact with your competitor? |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | iterationx: Calling yourself a hacker makes you look like an egomaniac. |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | makeee: What are you copying from builditwithme? I don't see much of a similarity. Anyway, I think your original site is much better than the new one. |
Suggestions for simple, cheap Workers Comp for CA office staff? | coopr: Intuit's URL: http://payroll.intuit.com/workerscomp/ |
is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site? | TrevorJ: I find that it is important to not just blindly copy something, but to truly unpack the principles behind it and attempt to improve upon it. This allows you to be inspired by great work but to (hopefully) take it even further and polish it even more.If you can't change or tweak anything about the original inpi... |
Ask HN:How to promote a Linux live cd? | BigPapa: Ah ah they call me Big Papa.Just call me Big Papa.Just get on the floor with your hos and my knob.Ah ah Big Papa. |
Am confused. Please suggest | jmonegro: You might find very useful answers over at StackOverflow, or ServerFault, most likely from people who are already successful network programmers. |
Extracting the Twitter Social Graph | kellyjoseph: We'd love to talk with you about what you're building, our scrape is the most complete outside of Twitter that we know of.http://blog.infochimps.org/2008/12/29/massive-scrape-of-twit...
It has since grown to 40M users.joe@infochimps.org |
Sales Resources | callmeed: I'm having a little trouble parsing your first sentence, but ... if you have a truly specialized/niche product, my best advice is to find high-profile people inside the industry, partner with them in one way or another, and let them sell for you. We did this initially and it was instrumental in our growth.For... |
Sales Resources | 3pt14159: Hey Kyro - Bring someone on. It takes about 1 year to really learn sales, 6 months if you have a bit of a marketing background. If you really can't bring someone on, then here are some pointers based off of the sales guys I work with.First, treat everything like a funnel. First time visitors to repeat visitor... |
Am confused. Please suggest | mbrubeck: It's absolutely not true that C is necessary to be a network programmer. There are some cases where it will absolutely be the best tool (especially for embedded or proprietary hardware), but just look at all the useful network software being written in Erlang, Java, Python/Twisted, Ruby/EventMachine, and now... |
Sales Resources | nico: This was posted a while ago on HN and I found it really useful: http://saleseverything.ning.com/profiles/blogs/8-sales-quest... |
Sales Resources | mahmud: If it's B2B software shoot me a product description and screenshots, and let's discuss the terms. It would be easier if you have a CJ account.Affiliate marketing is what you want, offer a top commission and give more freedom to publishers. |
Am confused. Please suggest | gills: You can learn the ins and outs of network programming in pretty much any language. When you find yourself needing the level of control or speed which C offers, or compatibility with some platform, then go there. |
Am confused. Please suggest | mahmud: You can get-by with just read-only C skills. Invest your time learning the ins and outs of python and its performance characteristics.It's also inevitable that you will have to learn systems programming; POSIX or Win32 API most likely, for Unix and Windows respectively. But not for another year or so.Have fun. |
Sales Resources | bcx: Just for fun, you might want to drop Olark (http://olark.com) on your website, so when you do get useful traffic you'll have an opportunity to help sell to them -- it's worked out pretty well for us. (shameless plug) |
Have you ever had a founder quit or had to fire one? | johnl: Ask the others if you can contact him to document the code. |
How do you manage your codebase once it gets large? | jimfl: This tends to be the job of the IDE. I am working on a largish .NET codebase, and Visual Studio, combined with a plugin called Resharper is the thing that keeps that sane, giving us context menus that allow us to quickly find usages of a method, or implementations of an interface.For Java code, Eclipse performs ... |
Is it right to call yourself a Hacker? | hc: dude just say this: "i am a programmer and i write business apps, but i've also played with assembly and know what O-notation is. I also know a lot about computer networks, and i've modded my computer on multiple occasions (I used a soldering iron)." |
Sales Resources | kleine2: Books by Brian Tracy |
Review Visual Website Optimizer - hassle-free A/B testing tool | paraschopra: Here is the clickable link: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/Invite code: "hacker-news" (without quotes) |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | chaosmachine: A friend of mine had some success scraping Yahoo Finance.http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=GOOGThere's a CSV download option. |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | SingAlong: Google has a Finance API here http://code.google.com/apis/finance/also if you choose Yahoo http://code.google.com/p/yahoo-finance-stock-data/ |
Generally speaking, Do Indians Startups Suck at Marketing | aditya: I dunno. What's the most well known Indian startup out there?I can't tell. Slideshare comes to mind, but it was founded in CA with offices in Delhi. So maybe they do suck at marketing. |
Are marketing problems like technical/design problems? | cschwarm: I assume you meant promotion; the term marketing usually includes product (design), price, placement (ie. distribution) and promotion.Making marketing decisions is basically the same thing as making any decision: You need to determine your goal, identify barriers you need to overcome in order to reach that go... |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | bioweek: Also is there anywhere to get free historical options prices? |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | steveplace: I'm assuming you want to backtest the data for some automated trading system.You can have a system that works very well with Yahoo data but not in the real world due to two reasons:-data integrity-survivorship biasSo to get good data you need to pay. It's imperative you have good data.A couple sites:
Future... |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | rstonge: I use DTN's NxCore for US Level I real-time data (last sale + bid/ask updates). The feed is excellent, but costs $500 per month. Here is the link: http://www.dtnmarketaccess.com/ |
Generally speaking, Do Indians Startups Suck at Marketing | kordless: I would say yes, based on my personal experience with a fairly successful Indian startup stealing my logo and 3/4 of my name: http://img.skitch.com/20091014-b93ddncw2197542p9triy9397x.jp...I might be biased though! :) |
Generally speaking, Do Indians Startups Suck at Marketing | mahmud: Indians are the backbone of the corporate software industry. They make the products and others do the branding and sales.This happens with all the mass producing countries where labor is cheap; China has weak brands in every industry, and all their most successful products are sold under foreign brands. Japan, ... |
Question about MySQL "create if not exists" performance. | duskwuff: This really shouldn't be necessary at all. In a well-designed application, the table schema should be completely known to the application at all times -- the existence of a table should never be in doubt. If for some reason this isn't the case, you'll be much better served by catching "table doesn't exist" er... |
Generally speaking, Do Indians Startups Suck at Marketing | oldgregg: Probably. But you also have to consider the cross-cultural communication gap. You have to spend quite a bit of time in a culture before you can market effectively. No doubt most Americans are pretty lousy at marketing in India. |
How do I get a lot of voters for my video contest entry? | zaidf: You may be able to use Amazon Mechanical Turk. Pay a penny a vote. Though I'm not sure how many rules that may be breaking;) |
I have an idea for a startup... now what? | apsurd: 1. Get in line.2. Start testing.i.e. Minimum viable product. Customer feedback. Iterate.Are you a programmer? |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | steveitis: If you want real time streaming, you can sign up for tdameritrade, and then request API access.It's free, and decent quality.The interface is RESTful, but the data is a funky binary format that's hard to parse without the documentation they make you sign an NDA to get.http://www.tdameritrade.com/tradingtool... |
I have an idea for a startup... now what? | chipsy: This is what I do at the moment(for a personal project, but it could easily adapt to an early-stage startup): Maintain a task list for the product/business - "action items" that can be taken care of each day. Pull a grab bag out each day and resolve to complete them. So when you want to work on the product itse... |
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