April 2012
1 post
styless-smiless asked: Whats my name
Why do ads for s/w engineers always say they... →
Why are job postings always looking for... →
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
Kick the .NET programmer
Quick – suppose you need to recruit a particular type of programmer, and you are having trouble finding him or her? Well, how about a bit of guerrilla marketing? How about creating a post on your blog that generates a lot of controversy, and a lot of traffic to your site?
That, in my opinion, is what David Barrett (The CEO of Expensify) did with his classic, taunting troll post Why we don’t hire...
September 2010
3 posts
"Rock Stars" and "Ninjas" Need Not Apply →
Centro’s technology team is building a web application for streamlining digital media placement. We are seeking talented developers with experience working with Javascript, Coffeescript, SproutCore, JQuery, Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, MongoDB and Postgres. We’re not throwing those in there so we show up in more searches, we actually use all of it in varying amounts….
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Never use a web hosting company that has a cartoon...
Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire →
From an article in the New York Times.
“If there’s the one enclave that has been completely unaffected by recession, it would be Stanford computer science students.”
— Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin,
The programming language “C++ is now an international language. If that’s all you know, then you’re competing with people in India or China who will do the work for less.”
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August 2010
4 posts
The Actionscript Ninja
I should know better than to look for gigs on Craigslist. The following is an example of the type of ads I dislike:
Actionscript Ninja needed
Flash Developer who is a rockstar at Actionscript (AS3 & AS2)! The person must be able to travel to Parsippany, NJ…
While I’m not interested in this gig (I’m not an actionscript developer) I have to wonder - when did we start...
On the subject of competence
In thinking about my previous blog post, I realize some of my insecurities are showing. Like, maybe I’m not all that good, and maybe I won’t be able to find a job as a developer. This got me thinking about the Dunning–Kruger effect
…The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the...
Delphi
For years, I developed Line of Business Windows apps with Delphi. My employers didn’t know or care what tool I used. If I told them what I used, it didn’t register, and they soon forgot it. They just cared that the apps worked, and solved the problem at hand. Oh, and they liked getting those apps quickly.
Perhaps it’s just my insecurity, but I feel like people don’t...
Star Programmers
Ironically, despite a glut of skilled and unskilled workers, in northern California, available developers who know what they are doing are as rare as mosquitoes in winter. When companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook drain the field, startups can’t compete.
But he looked good on paper
Slate - 8/27/2010
Who knew the developer situation in Northern California was so dire? Perhaps I...