Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by ratsbane » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 1:36 PM UTC

yummyfajitas wrote: post #209

ratsbane wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many people have solved it so far?

So far I've received 11 emails, but 4 were some variant of "nice puzzle, happy where I am right now, but I'll write to you next time I'm looking for work." A few more were "I solved the puzzle, but tell me more before I bother to update my resume." Such people are certainly in the right ballpark - if you jump into a puzzle without even thinking about whether you want the prize, that's a win.

Thanks. I wondered if the puzzle might encourage more responses in addition to filtering out the send-a-resume-to-everything ones. The puzzle differentiates you from most of the open positions.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by ratsbane » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 1:43 PM UTC

Note to everyone who posted an open position here - we might all find it interesting if, after a few days, you post a reply to your own thread characterizing the responses you received: how many, how relevant, and what caught your eye about the most interesting ones.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by berntb » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #210

berntb wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can email the code, if you insist. :-) (I thought about what the job would mean and it's too long since I studied, I just don't have the math self confidence to go halfway around the planet for a job. To do the green card dance etc, I'd need to feel confident about job fit.) Edit: Too late, will sleep now. I'll try to remember and check this if you answer, when I wake up.

I understand. How long did it take you to solve it?

Less than 40 lines total for the subproblems, including white space. Less than an hour (if you don't count checking email in the middle).

Would have been slightly faster if I had thought less and brute forced a bit more. A crazy old friend used to say "Don't underestimate brute force and ignorance"! :-)

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by thejake » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 3:43 PM UTC

C#/.NET Engineers - Milwaukee, USA

My company is in the Milwaukee area and we have a significant need for strong C# .NET engineers. Telecommuting is not currently an option, but we offer some relo assistance on a case by case basis.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by yummyfajitas » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

ratsbane wrote: post #211

yummyfajitas wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far I've received 11 emails, but 4 were some variant of "nice puzzle, happy where I am right now, but I'll write to you next time I'm looking for work." A few more were "I solved the puzzle, but tell me more before I bother to update my resume." Such people are certainly in the right ballpark - if you jump into a puzzle without even thinking about whether you want the prize, that's a win.

Thanks. I wondered if the puzzle might encourage more responses in addition to filtering out the send-a-resume-to-everything ones. The puzzle differentiates you from most of the open positions.

It definitely did. I'm working on a blog post discussing this.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by ratsbane » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 4:07 PM UTC

berntb wrote: post #213

tocomment wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand. How long did it take you to solve it?

Less than 40 lines total for the subproblems, including white space. Less than an hour (if you don't count checking email in the middle). Would have been slightly faster if I had thought less and brute forced a bit more. A crazy old friend used to say "Don't underestimate brute force and ignorance"! :-)

I though about a more elegant approach and then just brute-forced it too when I realized a brute-force solution wasn't really very expensive. cloc shows 7 lines of perl code for my part 1 solution and 22 lines for part two.

[edit] time for my part 1 solution was 7.8 seconds on an old Dell 2650

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by photon_off » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 4:54 PM UTC

bobbyi wrote: post #42

Affine Systems is a venture-backed startup looking for a Python programmer in San Francisco. Our core technology is a suite of computer vision algorithms (e.g., face recognition) for analyzing video that we have developed over the past few years. We use our vision platform to ingest and scan videos from sites like Youtube and Metacafe that are available for advertising and sell data about the video contents to advert…

If I may ask, why python?

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by stringbot » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

Web Application Engineers, IxD, Support, QA - Chicago/San Francisco, USA

Centro is writing web apps in Ruby and Javascript with the intent of overthrowing the tyranny of Excel and Fax machines in digital media planning.

We are looking for developers, support staff, QA and interaction designers to join our team in Chicago. We will consider highly qualified remote candidates as well.

We're also working on starting a team at our sales office in San Francisco. If you're a Ruby expert with experience putting together teams in SF, please hit us up.

Buzzword bingo and further information is on our GitHub job post at http://jobs.github.com/positions/4463ed90-a175-11df-9567-22d... or hit me up at josh.davison @ [name of our company, above] .net if you have questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by Whitespace » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 5:48 PM UTC

Software Engineer - New York, USA

Patch.com is looking for both front- and back-end engineers. I'm one of the back-end devs there, and my job is so awesome that I'm posting this of my own volition.

We're a rails shop that's really proud of our engineering team. Some of the things we built are:

* Sunspot - outoftime.github.com/sunspot - The most popular Ruby interface to Solr/Lucene for full-text search

* Template Streaming - github.com/oggy/template_streaming - Progressive Rendering for rails (which may become part of core eventually)

* HTML Namespacing - github.com/adamh/html_namespacing - This is some craziness the likes of which I can't explain in a text area

* Record Filter - aub.github.com/record_filter - It's like Arel++ for rails 2.3

Patch is a hyperlocal news site, but we're different because we have physical editors that live in the same town, covering it daily. We recently had (2 weeks ago) a media blitz where we opened our 100th town. Since then we've hit 130, so we're growing _very_ quickly.

We're owned by Aol but we have our own place in SoHo, which means great lunch options!

Telecommuting isn't an option, sorry.

Send me a message! tomc{at}patch

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by tdfx » Sat, Sep 04, 2010, 5:57 PM UTC

Vargas wrote: post #13

phillytom wrote: post #4

Product Engineers - Conshohocken - PA Same as the last time around Monetate is hiring - Conshohocken (Philly suburb). We have hired people who found us here - these threads are great. We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast. We're hiring e…

Where is PA?

You'll be a happier person not knowing.