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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by sotojuan »

lj3 wrote: post #46
dev_iq wrote: post #27

I have worked as a PHP full stack developer several times remotely. LAMP/WAMP stack is mostly in demand for most of the startups based in India. The next in demand is Ruby on Rails, I believe. RoR is basically preferred by small startups who want their product up and running quickly. I've built products with RoR and it's really fast development. The only drawback is that it is heavy on your pocket, so to speak. One t…

> One thing that you should definitely have in your kitty is JavaScript. OO JS is gold. Next in line, AngularJS and ReactJS. Is it, though? There are so many JS developers out there that a company would have little trouble hiring one locally. How would you stand out as being worth the money and the communications overhead?

By being great and preferably experienced. Finding a solid JavaScript developer who's also a great programmer in general is hard.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by xando »

selllikesybok wrote: post #48
xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

Unrelated to the OP, but what are you using to resolve place names to geography? Seems to be mostly on target, but you get weird stuff like Camden Town (UK) -> Camden, New Jersey, US and it's common enough to notice.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/classifier.shtml I'm not too happy about it.

But, I planning to replace it with simple knuth morris pratt text search against the list of all significant locations. This 100x slower but results are rarely bad.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by anc84 »

throw31337 wrote: post #7
anc84 wrote: post #5

Is this question some cynic attempt to see what keywords are going to be upvoted? What does "remote" even mean here? A ukranian remotely working for a US company? A brit remotely working for a chinese one? Why would there be a difference in stack just because someone is not working in-office but from somewhere else? The stack much rather depends on the field of work, the technology involved and maybe the location of…

No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…

What makes you think that "remote" jobs have different stacks though? That's my main point.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by Torn »

xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

Unrelated to OP, the instances where you're scraping HN 'who's hiring' threads seem to be missing the job title lines.

Would you be able to take the first line of the posts as job title? Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by naisanza »

xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

Just wondering what you used in the back end for the database and storage?

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by khoury »

pieterhg wrote: post #37

I make Remote OK, which aggregates most job boards for remote jobs. I have data for the last 2 years of jobs. I quickly made this page for you to see what stacks/tags are most popular: https://remoteok.io/stats.php Top stacks: Ruby 1,759 jobs (9%) Node JS 953 jobs (5%) PHP 779 jobs (4%) Meteor JS 645 jobs (3%) Python 552 jobs (3%) Java 525 jobs (3%) C++ 374 jobs (2%) Linux 313 jobs (2%) C 268 jobs (1%) Rails 266 jobs…

Hey, check your trends page, might be a bug? https://remoteok.io/trends

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by lj3 »

sotojuan wrote: post #51
lj3 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One thing that you should definitely have in your kitty is JavaScript. OO JS is gold. Next in line, AngularJS and ReactJS. Is it, though? There are so many JS developers out there that a company would have little trouble hiring one locally. How would you stand out as being worth the money and the communications overhead?

By being great and preferably experienced. Finding a solid JavaScript developer who's also a great programmer in general is hard.

And how do you expect a potential employer to identify such people? It's not an easy or trivial thing to determine who is a good dev and who is a bad dev.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by xando »

naisanza wrote: post #55
xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

Just wondering what you used in the back end for the database and storage?

Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by nwhatt »

Outside of the software stack I'd imagine you'll struggle if your devops stack is on-prem. Look for jobs that use cloud-based source management, cloud-based CI, and are hosted in the cloud.

I wrote a general blog about working from home with some other things I use. https://www.redoxengine.com/blog/working-remotely-at-redox

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by pieterhg »

khoury wrote: post #56
pieterhg wrote: post #37

I make Remote OK, which aggregates most job boards for remote jobs. I have data for the last 2 years of jobs. I quickly made this page for you to see what stacks/tags are most popular: https://remoteok.io/stats.php Top stacks: Ruby 1,759 jobs (9%) Node JS 953 jobs (5%) PHP 779 jobs (4%) Meteor JS 645 jobs (3%) Python 552 jobs (3%) Java 525 jobs (3%) C++ 374 jobs (2%) Linux 313 jobs (2%) C 268 jobs (1%) Rails 266 jobs…

Hey, check your trends page, might be a bug? https://remoteok.io/trends

Yep it's kinda broken, will fix now :)
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