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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#41

Please mention if you're interested in hiring a remote intern.

I would be interested in taking on a remote intern or two over the next few months. I am an independent software developer who works on several client and personal web applications, mostly using Ruby on Rails (jQuery on the frontend). If anyone is interested in internship where they could work with RoR, HTML/CSS/JS, or learn about how a freelance business works shoot me an email (address in profile).

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/ We're a distributed team (China, London, Orlando, Philly, Phoenix, and Bay Area) so we're adept at working remotely. Somewhere in the Bay Area preferred, but we'd also love to talk to you if you're located near any other large US city or technology hub (Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Boston, NYC, Philly, etc). Job description at http://www.…

Why the preferential treatment of folks from large cities and "technology hubs"? Seems to miss the point.

It may sound unfair but in the USA broadband is not so good if you are not around major city hubs..which them being virtual might be their concern

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#43

I am hiring remote programmers with advanced programming skills in Java, Ruby, Javascript and jQuery. http://www.e-ui.com/who-we-are/careers/

Your form asks for a US-only format for the phone number.

Thanks for informing me, I fixed it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the preferential treatment of folks from large cities and "technology hubs"? Seems to miss the point.

It may sound unfair but in the USA broadband is not so good if you are not around major city hubs..which them being virtual might be their concern

I live in a US town of ~6k people, and currently get 6Mbps on the lowest tier plan available (50 Mbs is readily available, just a bit pricey for personal use).

I don't buy this argument at all, as there are metro areas that will have worse connectivity than some rural areas within the US.

I also wonder what the real reason is.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've hired something like 4 people since we started talking about it here, I think.

Heh, yes. Developer team size is up to 23 now according to our about-us page. My estimate in that post was totally off.

Sorry, but this seems very odd to me that a developer would be almost 50% off in estimating their own team size, then post a second comment correcting it only halfway, and finally getting the correct answer by looking at your 'About Us' page?

What kind of working environment do you have that in a team of less than 25, a member of that team can be that far off-base?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#49
We are looking for guys and gals who can help us hack together Mathematica graphics for an interactive calculus textbook. We are currently in talks with an established publisher to partner with, and Wolfram is trying their best to make this happen.

It doesn't matter how young/old you are, where you live, or what college you went to. All we care about is whether you can deliver the Mathematica code we need to make this happen.

If want to help us revolutionize the textbook industry, please go to the elance page for this project, http://bit.ly/eUTmb8, and apply.

If you have any question about the project and the place you could play it, please email me personally at zack@zacharymaril.com.

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