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

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

TheTarquin wrote: post #45

It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise. e.g.: "Tacoma cannery property to be repositioned: Pinnacle Foods Group is looking for a real estate developer who can ... http://t.co/UobgHb39 and "Online entrepreneur pitches for funding for app ... - TasteBand.com: An world wide web entrepreneur is looking t... http://t.co/JKAnZ…

Thanks, I definately need to get better at filtering out the noise. I may just open it up to let people flag the noise themselves but hopefully I can improve the automated filtering to a point it's 'good enough'.

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

#52

Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

drewolbrich wrote: post #48

I tried entering "Mountain View, CA" into the text field in the upper left, and hit Enter, and nothing happened. I tried this in Safari, Chrome, Firefox. Seems broken to me. Am I doing it wrong?

ah, apparently it's currently broken if you load jobstractor.com instead of www.jobstractor.com which might be the problem. The other is there's no feedback whilst it's loading so possibly it was just running slow. Otherwise I guess my geo lookup could have just failed silently...

Thanks for letting me know. There's some improvements to be made as to how it fails wrt this.

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

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

dav01 wrote: post #50

Nice one, except ours don't show up. But for all you coders/synth-nerds want a great job! Check this out: http://twitter.com/#!/jugendingenieur

Thanks. I'm going to try and expand the number of jobs I can find in future.

Best of luck with the recruitment for those jobs.

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

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Post by drewolbrich » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 11:10 PM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #52

drewolbrich wrote: post #48

I tried entering "Mountain View, CA" into the text field in the upper left, and hit Enter, and nothing happened. I tried this in Safari, Chrome, Firefox. Seems broken to me. Am I doing it wrong?

ah, apparently it's currently broken if you load jobstractor.com instead of www.jobstractor.com which might be the problem. The other is there's no feedback whilst it's loading so possibly it was just running slow. Otherwise I guess my geo lookup could have just failed silently... Thanks for letting me know. There's some improvements to be made as to how it fails wrt this.

You're right. That was the problem. I was visiting jobstractor.com, which does not work correctly.

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

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Post by miles_matthias » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 11:40 PM UTC

This rocks. I've been looking for a better way of job hunting in specific areas. Are you planning on a mobile friendly version in the future? I would love to help! miles.matthias at gmail :)

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

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Post by icefox » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 12:08 AM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

If I search for 'clojure' none of the links have Clojure in them. Does it only search for location or can you search for keywords?

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

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Post by rorrr » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 12:43 AM UTC

I think it's much more important to highlight the technologies and the position itself than the location.

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

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Post by yariang » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 12:45 AM UTC

I like this. As someone said, normalizing locations like the 3 variations of Boston would be a plus.

Also, The locations could be refined. I see a lot of them being listed under the header "Boston" when they really happen "King of Prussia, PA", Burlington MA, or "West Newburry, MA". Those locations are not Boston. They're close, but not quite (and in the case of the PA one not even close). There's some value to the grouping things under Boston but I would prefer granularity in location headers.

Definitely see this as being very helpful though.

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

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Post by mmahemoff » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 1:03 AM UTC

I found the "Londinium, London, UK" funny. It came from the londinum.com website, but is also a place in the sense that it's London's original name. So technically, it places the job in Roman London, which is the main banking/business district today (aka The City) and therefore a major IT area.

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

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Post by brownie » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

It is useful and is something I'll keep an eye on if any roles come up.

One suggestion - a hide and/or mark as spam button would be useful. I noticed a "work from home" spam job appear in the listings which stuck out compared to the other tweets. A hide button would be useful to make jobs that I've applied for/are not interested in.