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Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by evan_ »

bhousel wrote: post #24
xando wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest this didn't cross my mind. But true, I should do something about it.

You can keep your urls sharable and avoid breaking the back button by storing the map state in the url hash. something like: `location.hash = '#map/' + mapLat + '/' + mapLng + '/'+ mapZoom;` Here's an example of one I made for a client recently. http://www.btforasthma.com/find-a-clinic?ctry=US&state=NY&lo... Incidentally, if anyone is looking to hire a consultant with mapping experience, hit me up.

That still creates a history state, so if you make 10 map moves, you have to click "back" 11 times to get back to the previous page.

replaceState() works a lot better:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/M...

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by evan_ »

c0nfused wrote: post #42

So, apparently there are a good number of tech jobs in Java Virginia, USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java,_Virginia I suspect those might not actually be there.

There's also one in "SAN FRANCISCO Oregon" - or, as the ad states it, "SAN FRANCISCO OR REMOTE."

That's why I spelled out "Oregon" in the ad I posted.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by chilicuil »

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #25

That's why I want to move away from Latin America... About the tool itself. Great work! It really helps saving us time when looking for opps within a certain region.

It's not only LA, everything but USA, UK and a couple of other Europe countries is empty, I think that's because the kind of start-up mentality fits better in those areas, there are plenty of opportunities in other parts of the world, not to mention that many of job offers listed here allow remote applicants =). This is a better HN job listing though.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by xando »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #59

Pretty neat! Along with the better location accuracy / being able to modify them that people are suggesting it would be nice to improve the combination circles so that they're over their respective areas. For instance if I zoom in at just the right distance over Washington D.C. it'll show a circle above the city with a number in it and you can clearly see Baltimore as well but Baltimore has no circles until you zoom…

Thanks for the feedback.

The fist issues sums as the clustering algorithm, which currently is not prefect. Current clustering works on a grid. So it's possible to have two close dots not being clustered, because are leaving in the different cells of the map grid. Although I have alternative one which will try soon.

Map zoom shouldn't be a problem.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by joeax »

THANK YOU for being able to search for remote jobs. That is awesome!

Now some feedback - browsing the map/zooming in bloats out my back stack. A couple back clicks is ok, but it took 20+ just to get back to where I was.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by christop »

delecti wrote: post #60
JDiculous wrote: post #21

This is awesome. Seriously. I never go through the regular "Who is Hiring?" thread because I don't have time to comb through a humongous list of unfiltered text posts, 90% of which aren't relevant to me. There have been other attempts to format the thing, but this is the best I've seen so far. One minor bug: I'm seeing a listing titled "---" that starts with "I am a Junior Front End Developer. I eventually want to go…

It's easy enough to just Ctrl+f for your location name, my biggest complaint is all the entries that don't say what their company does. It's all well and good that you're in my city and I'm familiar with the tools you use, but if you can't be arsed to include a single sentence description of why your company exists, I'm much less likely to care. Bonus points if your description isn't buzzword laden nonsense.

Descriptions would be great, but without regex support and a list of every town in your area, Ctrl+F doesn't really help.

A map is a much nicer alternative to trying "San Francisco", "Bay Area", "SF", "Oakland", "Berkeley", "Silicon Valley", "Palo Alto", "Menlo Park" etc..

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by xando »

blackjack48 wrote: post #32

Really awesome tool - I'm not sure how (or if) it handles multiple locations, but the listing for TrueCar gets plotted at "Santa Monica Way, SF" rather than Santa Monica and SF.

Thanks.

I doesn't, I don't think I know how to handle them right now. The number of possible formats for locations that people use is already huge. Trying to figure how to split them may be hard to solve.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by GordyMD »

nkassis wrote: post #47
sz4kerto wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And programmers in the City make >100k. Not all of them, of course, but many. And 80k is average.

That still seems low given the cost of living in London + comparing to finance devs in the US in similar markets.

I imagine he's talking in £ not $.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by xando »

Thanks for the feedback so far.

It looks like the biggest issue is guessing locations. I have few ideas how to improve it, although fixing it may be hard. Number of possible formats is huge, and event then the same format could be two different things eg. multiple locations (London, Berlin) vs location with state (San Francisco, CA)

I was trying fix most of the places posted in comments here.

For those asking how I map locations. I'm using text tagging with named entity recognition approach.

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