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Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by oliv__ »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #187

Ok, this is a great question (I've faced the same problem as a generalist at times over my career), and I've loved almost every comment. First, let's look at the situation we find ourselves in the tech industry. Everyone is interviewing, but "no one" is hiring. Companies are reporting they hire less than 1% of applicants ( http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/07/hiring-developers/ ). He probably wasn't the first to mentio…

First of all I agree with you. Even though this whole thread was initiated from my own not-so-great situation, I'm actually glad it happened because it spurred such an interesting conversation. The comments here are incredibly insightful (yours included) and there are some real gems to be taken!

Now about your comment more specifically: I was not aware at all that this was the state of things in companies. It definitely puts things into perspective.

I am taking note of all of the other changes you suggested, most of which I agree with (although I don't really like the idea of "dumbing" down the design to be more accessible, it feels to me like watering down my own self...)

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by oliv__ »

MrQuincle wrote: post #221
fundingshovel wrote: post #205

The title made me hope he had written a bot to literally to a million jobs.

For a second I thought he indeedd built a tool to apply to a million jobs at once. That would have been impressive.

FWIW, the title was edited by a moderator. The original title was: What's wrong with me.

I do agree though that that would have been a nice feat.

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

Radiant wrote: post #98
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

This post is sarcastic and the site is some kind of a parody, right? RIGHT?!

Lol, no that is actually a mugshot of my ugly face. I swear. And the post is legit. I really did not graduate high school because back in 1999, the internet was exciting and school books were just a waste of my time. And then I got my first job as a web developer, building Flash websites. Exciting times.

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

warcode wrote: post #25
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

Your page breaks/is not responsive for widths greater than 1920. I'd probably still hire you, but might be a good year to fix that.

Hmmm... I'm using a Surface Book Pro, 3000x2000 resolution, and the site looks fine for me. How does it break?

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by oliv__ »

Meph504 wrote: post #229
oliv__ wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am aware of toLocaleTimeString() but I chose to do it manually because I wanted to display time in this particular format, regardless of the user's locale, and because of oddities like this one for Safari users: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471508/javascript-on-mac...

when you pass the local "en-us" that means you use that, and not the user's locale. the formatting you desired, can also be easily defined with the options argument. see ( https://jsfiddle.net/prn4823b/1/ ) but these methods, are pretty new, so say we disregard them for a minute. The serious issue to take note of here, is that you are defining everything, in a function you are calling every second. you don't need a n…

You're right. Your code is much cleaner.

Otherwise the time itself is just something I liked having there; my OS has a clock too, I'm aware of that.

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

grayclhn wrote: post #47
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

Your link to rennder.com doesn't work :)

yea that project is dead... i should fix that. Thanks for the input!

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #169
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

I have a similar experience and I attribute it to the fact that when you are really an expert at something, others can pick up on it quick, maybe even before you yourself realize it. For many years I thought I was a dummy for dropping out of college and just having a bad time with school and never getting good grades. Turns out I'm actually very good at math and I just had chronic depression from a bad upbringing. I…

I can't believe you taught yourself quantum mechanics! I thought for sure that was something only a serious physicist could do. Now that gives me hope in my own potential :)

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by oliv__ »

sparkling wrote: post #197

You might want to clarify your immigration status. You mentioned that you have previously worked in the US. - Does that man you have a valid visa that allows you to work in the US? - Do you have permanent residency? - Do you have full (dual-)citizenship? If so, mention that on your resume. There are many companies, especially small startups, who simply do not have the resources to deal with visa/immigration issues -…

You're right, I thought that was clear from the "Franco-American" mention but I'll make sure to make it crystal clear.

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

rch wrote: post #80
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

Same. Only I recently noticed that I've had to list fewer tools per year over time. I've started to look for this trend in others.

Yea now that Microsoft is on board with open source, my list of tools have stagnated as well. Visual Studio, C#, Javascript, LESS, Gulp, SQL Server, Git. That's about all I need... No front-end Javascript frameworks, no React, no Angular, no Knockout... just beautiful, clean, vanilla Javascript... and C#.

Re: Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

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Post by apolymath »

willvarfar wrote: post #24
apolymath wrote: post #16

I get hired all day, people bang down my door after im hired, and all I do is explain the tools I used each year. I never graduated high school, never went to college, never really built anything that I can show off. I just talk about the tools I use. thats it. www.markentingh.com

Yeap a list of tools, the longer the list the better. I'm completely agreeing with you, but I cry a little tiny bit inside. Sad that its this way. PS don't think it fair that you are being downvoted. You are giving sound advice.

It's okay, I don't mind being downvoted. Haters hate.
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