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Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by kirillzubovsky »

bbx wrote: post #47

I've been searching for a remote job for the last few months. This site comes in really handy. Listing remote jobs isn't new (for example, Authentic Jobs has a clear call-to-action to filter them), but focusing on them is interesting. What I've learned so far is that a remote job is not exactly what I thought it was. Considering the mostly globalized state of the web (and even the internet), I thought "remote" meant…

Actually, that's not naive at all. If you don't mind working on multiple projects throughout a year, you're welcome to create a profile on https://Scoutzie.com and you could work with any number of clients you want.

The beauty, you can quite literally work from home in your underwear, at whatever hours you choose. As long as you make it clear to the clients how you work on the projects, you get all the flexibility you want.

I understand that won't give you a 100% security of having a full-time job, but part-time you could actually make more money than if you were to take on a full-time gig. The harder you work, the more money you make, it's that simple.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by zimbatm »

benihana wrote: post #91
oftenwrong wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You love open source software, but not enough to use an open source OS

I mean technically OS X is an open source OS with a closed-sourced windowing system built on top of it. I hate myself for posting this comment .

_Your dark troll side has spoken_. I'm not even sure that that's technically correct, it's probably not possible to get the same kernel by compiling Darwin. I would be surprised if Apple kept pushing new feature into the open source kernel.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by kirillzubovsky »

httpteapot wrote: post #101
bbx wrote: post #47

I've been searching for a remote job for the last few months. This site comes in really handy. Listing remote jobs isn't new (for example, Authentic Jobs has a clear call-to-action to filter them), but focusing on them is interesting. What I've learned so far is that a remote job is not exactly what I thought it was. Considering the mostly globalized state of the web (and even the internet), I thought "remote" meant…

Have you tried plateforms like oDesk?

If he is serious about actually working and making a living, oDesk is not the right place to work. I wrote about it a few days ago - https://medium.com/startup-shenanigans/66896bbf21da - cheap labor and sup-par clients, yeah, oDesk is definitely not the place.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by jnbiche »

jusben1369 wrote: post #80
RyanZAG wrote: post #8

Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary. Cases in point: We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20 You will be working with interesting people, namely me. https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10 EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot…

"We're looking for a younger developer" - it's probably important to point out it says "junior developer" Discriminating based on skills is fine. Doing it by age is very problematic.

Yeah, it said "Younger developer" but they presumably read this thread and changed it.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by cedsav »

legohead wrote: post #78

I've had the hardest time finding a remote + part-time programming job. I have a day job, but want to work extra during the evenings as well. Basically, two jobs, but the second one being part time obviously. I've tried craigslist, indeed, SO, even HN who's hiring. I send off to anything that looks like it might work. Have had zero success. I can only assume it's a non-desired position. Who wants to give a programmer…

As an employer who sometimes work with part-time developer, it's just hard to find projects that fit in this kind of schedule. Unless you're in a different time zone, there's little opportunities to meet and coordinate (I like to spend time with my family in the evenings :-/ ) and progress is inevitably slow. For a freelance gig I'd be open to it, (or as a temporary solution to test the water before going full time), but not as a long term solution.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by atmosx »

I'm not a professional developer but I would be very interested even in low-salary junior developer job in Ruby. But most jobs posting I see require excellent knowledge of virtually every technology out there.

I wonder how many developers are excellent at:

* UNIX admin (setting up sql + nginx + unicorn on BSD/Linux) Rails/JS/CSS3/HTML5 * TDD * Excellent Closure and/or Scala * Virtualisatin/scaling/concurrency (put another dozens of varying subjects here... and you're spot on).

I mean, I do linux/unix setup/admin writing firewall rules, setting services for FUN at home since 2000 and there's nothing I can't do given a little bit of time some documentation and a guy to ask a few questions if I get into serious trouble.

But saying I or everyone else is a master in all these things, seriously?

My gut tells me that most companies want the miracle-man or don't know what they are looking for. Hope I'm wrong.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by kirillzubovsky »

nawitus wrote: post #33

a track record of getting stuff done I wonder how one can prove to have a track record of getting stuff done. If we exclude hobby projects / open source contributions, I have no idea how I could show any kind of track record. I'm not allowed to talk about the projects I do at work, for example, and I don't have time or motivation for hobby projects after work.

Is there a way you could convince your work to let you talk about the project in general terms? Don't have to be specific, like "developed a hack to take my data back from NSA", but you could describe the technologies and the processes?

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by andyroid »

mgkimsal wrote: post #70
redblacktree wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That actually describes me. I hate dicking around with drivers and the like (though I've heard Ubuntu got better), so I like the unixy OSX quite a lot.

"though I've heard Ubuntu got better" I've heard that about linux every year for the past 14 years, usually from people who've only been using desktop linux for a year or two. Not exclusively, but usually.

And you somehow doubt that to be true, or what is your point?

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by cschneid »

bluishgreen wrote: post #71
[deleted] wrote: post #35

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netiquette: downvote must be followed by a comment.

From the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't make comments like this.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by alpeb »

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #44

Not for those old dogs called project managers... like me.

Not surprisingly since they kinda pooh-pooh on managers in the book: "We believe that these staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office". More context will tell where they're coming from, but they don't acknowledge the importance that great managers acting as leaders have in a project. I still haven't finished the book though.
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