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Re: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by collyw » Fri, May 23, 2014, 2:05 PM UTC

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #78

infinitone wrote: post #40

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I don't get it- can you give an example of a 'seed'? Sounds interesting.

Sure - here are concrete example of seeds. I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique. Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers sa…

Does anyone know a good blogging platform to include code examples (without messing around with Javascript)? I tried google blogger, but code did not come out nicely, and it tries to do its own formatting when you save.

Re: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by collyw » Fri, May 23, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

cnkeller wrote: post #86

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing. What's the culture like on your team regarding remote? Are you the only remote or are there a bunch of people doing the same thing? Did you transition to remote while remaining on the same team?

Background: I had a personal issue that required me to sell my house in silicon valley and move closer to my parents on the east coast. Rather than let me go, the company offered to pay for my relocation and let me work from home (I work at a pretty traditional company, not a tech giant so I was surprised). About six months after, I moved teams within the company, so my new team was okay with me coming on board while…

"I'm not sure if I'm more productive (though I suppose we could all find ways to be more productive), but I'm certainly as productive."

This is one of the reasons I am desperate to get a remote job. The chance to work on code uninterrupted. I enjoy coding, but the longer I stay in my current job, the less of it I seem to do.

Re: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by collyw » Fri, May 23, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #65

fecak wrote: post #56

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Competition for remote work is fierce, and is only going to get more fierce for as long as it remains rare. For most people that are applying for remote work, they are applying not because of the work itself or a strong belief in the company. Their #1 search criterion is for remote work and all other details are probably a somewhat distant second, and until remote jobs are more available you will find it a competitiv…

But on the flip side, companies can get quality talent for cheap salaries, no?

They would get a whole lot more productivity out of me. Not being asked to fix users excel errors and being bugged every 5 minutes. (I know this is true, as the organization was a lot smaller 3 years ago when I started, and for the first year I was incredibly productive).

Re: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by thibaut_barrere » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 7:23 PM UTC

vram22 wrote: post #90

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #78

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Sure - here are concrete example of seeds. I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique. Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers sa…

That was a good video you made about ETL.

Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: The best way to find remote job

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Post by thibaut_barrere » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 7:23 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #91

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #78

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Sure - here are concrete example of seeds. I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique. Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers sa…

Does anyone know a good blogging platform to include code examples (without messing around with Javascript)? I tried google blogger, but code did not come out nicely, and it tries to do its own formatting when you save.

I've settled with Jekyll (static), hosted on S3. I'm using prism.js at the moment but will probably move the code examples to embedded github gists.