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Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren »

artursapek wrote: post #18
robinwarren wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, yep a lot of what is required is a better way of presenting and filterring the tweets. Working out the locations for the tweets could definately be improved, especially when it's quite vague. thanks again.

No problem. Mind if I ask what you're using to track my location so discreetly? Chrome never asked me for permission. :P I'm also building a location-based webapp and would like to check it out.

I'm using this from google http://code.google.com/apis/loader/

Code runs in the browser then:

if (google.loader.ClientLocation != null) { loc = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city; lat = google.loader.ClientLocation.latitude lng = google.loader.ClientLocation.longitude }

hope that helps.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren »

bjacobso wrote: post #14
casey wrote: post #7

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Nice. You need to linkify the tweets so users don't need to copy and paste the URLs to the actual job posts.

Agreed. Luckily Twitter makes it really easy: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-js

Thanks! This is even easier than asking on stack overflow!

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren »

tednaleid wrote: post #9

Looks like a good start to something potentially very useful. Some suggestions: I'd like to see how old a tweet is. I don't have any idea how fresh some of this information is (without clicking on the user and searching through their history). Related to that, I'd also like a link to the original tweet, so that I can potentially follow any conversation on that tweet. It'd also be nice if any hyperlinks in the tweets…

I'm getting some pretty consistent feedback on tweaks needed in UI now.

I think modifying the radius should be possible, I'm using mongodb for storage and I think it has some nice geospatial capabilities.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren »

m0tive wrote: post #10

It would be great if the site url updated when I change location, then I could bookmark a link to the location I'm interested in! Also, after changing location, nothing seems to happen for a couple of seconds. Some visual feedback that it's loading the location info would be nice.

Good idea, that'd definately be handy. I'll add it to the list. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by artursapek »

robinwarren wrote: post #21
artursapek wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No problem. Mind if I ask what you're using to track my location so discreetly? Chrome never asked me for permission. :P I'm also building a location-based webapp and would like to check it out.

I'm using this from google http://code.google.com/apis/loader/ Code runs in the browser then: if (google.loader.ClientLocation != null) { loc = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city; lat = google.loader.ClientLocation.latitude lng = google.loader.ClientLocation.longitude } hope that helps.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren »

mendicant wrote: post #26

First off, I love the idea. Secondly, I can't sign up for the weekly email. It says: Cannot POST /new

This should be fixed now. I broke it when I submitted to HN as I had to change the URL (I submitted jobstractor earlier in the year when it was a something a bit different)

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by [deleted] »

tednaleid wrote: post #9

Looks like a good start to something potentially very useful. Some suggestions: I'd like to see how old a tweet is. I don't have any idea how fresh some of this information is (without clicking on the user and searching through their history). Related to that, I'd also like a link to the original tweet, so that I can potentially follow any conversation on that tweet. It'd also be nice if any hyperlinks in the tweets…

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Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

#30

Post by rmason »

tednaleid wrote: post #9

Looks like a good start to something potentially very useful. Some suggestions: I'd like to see how old a tweet is. I don't have any idea how fresh some of this information is (without clicking on the user and searching through their history). Related to that, I'd also like a link to the original tweet, so that I can potentially follow any conversation on that tweet. It'd also be nice if any hyperlinks in the tweets…

Definitely need to show how old the tweet is in days. Every job I clicked on was expired.

I do feel that you have built something quite useful.

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