liquidcool

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by liquidcool 5y ago
I almost responded without reading the article, assuming he was talking about moonlighters. Meaning hiring developers who have already put in 40 hours somewhere else. Many responding here seem to be making the same assumption. That's a
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by liquidcool 5y ago
The Amplify team seems to be allergic to docs. They should double the size of their evangelist/tech writing team. I don't know when this was, but I'm just starting learning it now and the "Getting Started" tutorial
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by liquidcool 8y ago
"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini This explains so much of human behavior, but I hesitate to recommend it to people because it is so easily weaponized. To borrow from Harry Potter, it's the closest
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by liquidcool 8y ago
It seems to me that like last year, several countries with very large developer bases are underrepresented. I'm thinking of India and the Philippines in particular, where English is not an issue. I'm an American, but I'd like
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by liquidcool 8y ago
I thought this was already posted, but I had read this longer article with more context, including the original text from the book that is short and written in a fun, old-timey style: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles&
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by liquidcool 8y ago
Hi Charles, what you are describing is what I specialize in (outsourced/offshore software project rescue). I run a 4-part audit/assessment: 1. Client education, AKA managing expectations. Educating the client on the principles a
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by liquidcool 9y ago
I would love public transportation like I've experienced it in Europe, but train tracks have exceptionally tight tolerances and high costs to build/maintain vs. roads. I hope Musk will fix this, but probably not before "good
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by liquidcool 9y ago
At least they were honest about the terrible pay. That's refreshing.
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by liquidcool 9y ago
I think it's good to remove "friend potential" from the hiring process. Most people are not jerks, and that's really all you need. I find I'll become friends with anyone reasonably pleasant to be around. But listing
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What is it, really?(philip.yurchuk.com)
1 points by liquidcool 9y ago|0 comments
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by liquidcool 9y ago
It's hard to say what to improve without more details, but contract work should be high paying because of the uncertainty. Could be issues with your resume and/or interviewing skills. For the latter, you could try interviewing.io.
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Traditionally it's been Java web application development and ecommerce, and I've subcontracted a few times when friends needed help. But now I'm currently focusing more on staffing, since almost nobody technical is in recruit
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Wow, 5X! I have a small consultancy and most engineers are surprised to learn that 2X is typical. I do know some of the large management consulting firms have very high margins, especially on junior programmers, which you're clearly no
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by liquidcool 9y ago
You mention a couple times that your work has a significant impact on the company's sales/revenue. If you can actually quantify the value of your work, you are in a much stronger negotiating position with your employer and others.
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by liquidcool 9y ago
I'm confident you will improve that rate if you move #1 to #3. It's a form of the halo effect, where we over-weight the beginning of a sentence, paragraph, document, etc.
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Got an application from a developer that looked terrible . Was ready to dismiss it, when I happened to notice there were patterns to the garbage, and it was really too terrible for anyone. Asked her to send me the original and I found th
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by liquidcool 9y ago
As someone who does contingency tech recruiting, I'm very curious how this plays out. I have a couple biases, mainly 2 decades in software engineering and a sense of ethics many recruiters would call "stupid." But I'll c
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Isn't crowd-funding just changing names to ICO? I'm not saying it's any better, just that there's as much talk about it now as there was for crowd-funding. Curious what the numbers are for that in comparison, and what pe
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What's the developer experience?(philip.yurchuk.com)
2 points by liquidcool 9y ago|0 comments
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Hadn't seen that article, but will take a look. Friend sold Kirby vacuums and had a very high opinion of them, but of course they are extremely expensive, something like $1,500.
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by liquidcool 9y ago
Author here, great feedback, thanks. My ultimate goal would be, if possible, to ask one of the SI's professional services developers out to lunch and pick their brain in an informal setting. Someone who has been there for a couple year
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by liquidcool 9y ago
A friend asked me the same, so here's my info. It is dated, and you're best calling a repair shop before buying, but likely still some nuggets of truth here. Big trend is consolidation in the industry. Whirlpool, Maytag, and Kitch
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Ask a Repair Shop(philip.yurchuk.com)
307 points by liquidcool 9y ago|132 comments
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Demolition Derby: The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles(linkedin.com)
1 points by liquidcool 10y ago|0 comments
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by liquidcool 10y ago
What country is this in? I've never heard of an exclusivity clause from US tech recruiters.
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by liquidcool 10y ago
Shocked to hear nobody asked about past projects, that's usually the core of the interview. What are they asking instead? If behavioral questions, are you practicing those? And if they are not asking about algorithms, you're likel
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by liquidcool 10y ago
It is definitely easier to recruit Java/Spring folks. Not only are there way more of them, but there is a lot of competition for Scala folks right now (not just Play, but Spark, etc.), and pretty much any Java EE dev can learn Spring s
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by liquidcool 10y ago
So he actually gives a response? Callooh callay! I'd say none of the recruiter emails were terrible, but I see the points about requiring passion and code ownership. Also, he makes a point about emails going to his personal email addre
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by liquidcool 10y ago
In general, you have a contract in place first. Sometimes they'll send in nameless resumes, and if the hiring manager likes them, they get the contract in place then. I've had clueless recruiters do that to me, and I suspect some
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by liquidcool 10y ago
Have you tried this? https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/22210-facebook-unsponsored Fixed it for me. Web-only, but I just removed the icon from my phone's home screen and my FB usage went way down, which I thin

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