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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 respondi…

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 …

"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. T…

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 i…

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 sty…

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 expect…

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 …

At least they were honest about the terrible pay. That's refreshing.

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…

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 skil…

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…

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, es…

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 n…

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.

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…

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 re…

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…

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.

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 informa…

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 consolida…

What country is this in? I've never heard of an exclusivity clause from US tech recruiters.