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Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by aspectmin »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #208
aspectmin wrote: post #194

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Nee. LeagueApps ( http://www.leagueapps.com ). Ik hou van onze missie en onze SPORTSDOG-waarden (kijk op onze website). Het feit dat we jeugdsport financieren en voetbalvelden in het hele land aanleggen, maakt het alleen maar beter. De meesten van ons hier geloven dat een van de manieren waarop we kinderen vaardigheden zoals leiderschap en teamwerk kunnen bijbrengen, is door middel van teamsporten. Sorry, mijn Nederl…

Valt wel mee hoor, zo roestig lijkt het niet ;) Het lijkt me wel bizar dat een bedrijf verantwoordelijk is voor het financiëren van jeugdsport/voetbalvelden :O ( ipv. de gemeente bv)!

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De financiering van sportvelden is meestal het domein van de gemeenten en deelstaten. De sportteams worden vaak gefinancierd door fondsenwerving, donaties/sponsoring en/of lidmaatschapsgelden. Dat gezegd hebbende, heeft een groot percentage van de bevolking (vooral de kansarme jeugd) geen toegang tot speelplekken of de middelen om een team te runnen (uniformen, sportuitrusting), vooral in de grotere gemeenten. De kosten van bijvoorbeeld grond in New York of Seattle om toe te wijzen aan een voetbalveld zijn astronomisch. Als gevolg daarvan zijn de meeste sportvelden/-arena's (bijv. hockeypistes) dag en nacht volgeboekt.

Helaas - in de VS worden veel sporten pay-to-play en alleen beschikbaar voor de welgestelden. Dit is vooral duidelijk bij sporten zoals skiën - waar een dagpas van ongeveer $ 80 per dag ging tot dichter bij $ 150 / dag op sommige heuvels.

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Financing sports fields is usually the domain of the municipalities and state governments. The sports teams are often funded by fundraising, donations/sponsorship, and/or membership fees. With that said, a large percentage of the population (in particular the underserved youth) don't have access to places to play or the funds to run a team (uniforms, sports equipment), especially in the larger municipalities. For example, the cost of land in New York or Seattle to allocate to a soccer field is astronomical. As an effect, most sports fields/arenas (e.g. hockey rinks) are just fully booked up at all hours of the day and night.

Sadly - in the US, many sports are becoming pay-to-play and only available to the well-to-do. This is especially evident in sports like skiing - where a day pass went from around $80 a day to closer to $150/day at some hills.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by coderholic »

el_benhameen wrote: post #28
coderholic wrote: post #18

HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.

It looks like ipinfo works in a fascinating problem space. I see that you had a few “Who is Hiring” posts earlier this year, but none in the May or June threads. Do you have a sense of whether you’ll be looking for more engineers in the near future?

Probably not in the next few months, but certainly later this year.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by el_benhameen »

coderholic wrote: post #232
el_benhameen wrote: post #28

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It looks like ipinfo works in a fascinating problem space. I see that you had a few “Who is Hiring” posts earlier this year, but none in the May or June threads. Do you have a sense of whether you’ll be looking for more engineers in the near future?

Probably not in the next few months, but certainly later this year.

Thanks! I’ll keep an eye out.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by nbar1 »

DonHopkins wrote: post #215
nbar1 wrote: post #141

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I always feel so terrible for people who always have to inject politics into everything.

I always feel so terrible for people whose politics are so terrible they can't take a joke.

your politics don't matter to me since you spend your entire life in your house.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by franciscop »

I got hired 3 times thanks to HN, all in very different ways! But they add up to most of my career:

- In 2014~2015 I released a CSS library (Picnic CSS), which was fairly rare back then, and reached the front-page of HN. Through that post I got contacted by a US dev offering me very interesting freelancing work! That also made me realize I could make in 1 month of international work what would take 3-4 months of a local job through the degree I was studying. We collaborated in multiple projects.

- In 2019 I joined Standard AI through their announcement in the monthly "Who is Hiring?" in HN. TBH it was amazing work, we had a great small dev team in our location and I learned and grew a lot. I've done some of my most challenging (in a tech level) dev work there.

- In 2023 I joined Keeper through HN's "Work at a Startup" program where I had created a profile. It was the only time I've been contacted from a company through the program, but magically it was just when I was looking for a new job so it was a pretty good match. So far it's been pretty good!

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by nickfromseattle »

sarah_eu wrote: post #226
nickfromseattle wrote: post #147

I met the CEO of a startup a local Hacker News meetup. I joined his company as employee #8 in a (non-technical) role I wasn't qualified for, in an industry I didn't know existed, leveraging a technology I knew nothing about. I didn't have any accomplishments but a few failed startups, but he thought the hustle I demonstrated was all I needed to be successful in the role he was hiring for. Fortunately he was right. 1.…

What's a problem you get only after 15 years? Lower back pain? I've never heard of interesting problems being gate-kept by years of experience. PhDs have the best share of current interesting problems.

Full lifecycle integration of our technology into F500 companies to deliver cloud services to their end-customers. Think Rackspace, GoDaddy, Sprint, Comcast, AT&T and two dozen of their peers across the EU and APAC.

The average sales cycle was 9-18 months, and the average GTM was ~9 months. Technically I was in a partnerships role and I was supposed to work with our dept heads to align with our partner's dept heads for sales, support, product, legal, etc.

But because I joined earlier than all of our department heads and worked with the CEO to develop the program, was closer to the requirements, and they weren't KPI'd on these partnerships / had their own problems, they were happy to let me do most of the work.

I was 26 when I joined and the folks I worked with were 10 - 25 years older. I pitched SVPs, negotiated legal agreements, wrote API integration specs, did on-sites, repped us at industry conferences, product managed packages, trained sales and support teams, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by jrmiii »

schnable wrote: post #219
jrmiii wrote: post #167

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Looks like quite a few via meetup.com search https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=hacker%20news&source=E...

I don't see any Hacker News meetups in those results?

They aren't hacker news branded, but you can find them where everyone is tech literate and follows hacker news. To your point, and perhaps op, I've never seen a Hacker News™ meetup.

Re: Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

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Post by MattSayar »

coderholic wrote: post #18

HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.

Oh hey Ben, it's fun to see someone I interacted with professionally out in the wild! I remember I guessed your email once and you responded immediately.
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