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

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Post by hackula1 »

leknarf wrote: post #97
Khao wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the same Catch-22 situation I'm in. I'm trying to find work and eveyrwhere I look it's "We want to look at your Github profile and open source contribution!" Fuck. I don't have any of those because I mostly code at work and if I do stuff at home it's very unprofessional and only for personal use. I don't have time to contribute to open source and frankly I don't even want to but that doesn't make me less of a…

I ask applicants for a Github link, but it's not nearly as big a deal as you might think. Some people have interesting work on github. Others don't, but have something else to show instead. I'll look at whatever a candidate sends over (within reason). And open source contributions are a lot easier to make than you might expect, when you consider non-code contributions. Opening an issue on github for an open-source li…

Submitting an issue is often much more appreciated as a project maintainer than a big code dump pull request.

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

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Post by hackula1 »

quaffapint wrote: post #165
atmosx wrote: post #116

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 a…

My favorite is this one from FogCreek... Incredible coding skills. Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal." ...A little intimidating ain't it? Not sure what an animal developer truly is.

Spolsky did write for years about how he only hired devs who (very rough paraphrasing from memory):

- were geniuses - top of class - CS only - Ivy League - could recall the ins and outs of pointer arithmetic - Solve binary-recursive-whatcha-ma-callem puzzles in their sleep - are rockstars

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

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Post by skrebbel »

redguava wrote: post #222
skrebbel wrote: post #208

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I never understood this. Shouldn't the salary be relative to the amount of value I add? Two people doing the same work, but one decides to rent a $3000,- apartment in SF and the other lives in North-east Veszprem. Why would a company pay the first guy more? Or the second guy less? Would feel very unfair if you're the second guy.

It's a really complicated thing. I agree the salary should be relative to the amount of value you add. But what a "good salary" is, depends on where you live. If you do an amazing job, and I pay you an amazing amount. That amazing amount could vary depending on your cost of living. I agree in a perfect world that you should get paid the same no matter where you are, and globalisation will probably head in that direct…

I see your point.

I guess it would feel more fair if the deal explicitly contained a note like "and if you move elsewhere for whichever reason, we'll adjust the salary so that you have at least as good a standard of living as you do now".

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

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Post by petervandijck »

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…

You should put your contact info on your HN profile.

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Post by grey-area »

kfcm wrote: post #255
wrboyce wrote: post #149

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I don't agree with your statement at all. The company I work for (and have been with for about two years) has employees across more timezones than I care to count (I am based in London, my colleagues across the US, Panama, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia and probably some others I've forgotten -- with one person soon moving to Australia) and we don't have any real issues. We even manage to have a daily s…

I agree with the parent commenter completely, but there is a difference between grey-area and you. You imply being an employee of a company with remote workers. Grey-area is discussing the difficulties of being a remote independent contractor/consultant. Being remote independent is difficult, since you're not just in the technical position, but you're also in sales (selling your skills). Obtaining leads means network…

That sums up the difference much better than I did - thanks.

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

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Post by phaemon »

mgkimsal wrote: post #249
phaemon wrote: post #219

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> it works the way I expect it to on my macbook What? Not at all? Not working when you unplug headphones? Not working for Flash? Google for "osx sound problem" and you'll get plenty hits. What exactly do you think your link from 2011 demonstrates?

My anecdotal evidence using my MacBooks (3 since 2008) carry as much weight as anyone else's linux anecdotes. And osx is by no means perfect. I just have had far fewer problems related to hardware and drivers than I ever did on Linux. In 9 years of desktop linux, audio was a constant problem. It's been an extremely rare issue on my MacBooks. What it demonstrates is that even in 2011, the base issues of how audio shou…

...and I've had no problems with Linux sound since I tried to force JACK to do things no sane human should. Your anecdotes illustrate nothing.

I was using macbooks at the same time for our video editing. Don't pretend they don't spin that beachball crap at you at the worst moments.

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

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Post by JEJEJE »

The arrival of Jason and David's book, Remote, is fantastic and I can't wait to read it. I think it is crystal clear that, if done properly, many people would lead much happier livers if they had the ability to choose where they worked from. People could still collaborate online with colleagues, probably lead healthier lives, be more productive, and be judged based on execution rather than whether they are at their desk earlier or later than others, even if they are just sitting there on, Faceboo or Reddit…. or HN ;-).

There are many companies of all sizes that support employees domestically and internationally working remotely. IBM, HP, Kaplan, The US Government, a number of major insurance companies, and many other organizations hire remotely. This gives access to a much broader talent pool.

Also, "The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the entire five-year cost of implementing telework throughout government ($30 million) is less than a third of the cost of lost productivity from a single day shut down of federal offices in Washington DC due to snow ($100 million). - See more at: http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statis...

I've always found it time consuming to filter through all the crappy jobs when searching for good opportunities that allow you to work remotely. I'm actually working on creating a curated search experience specifically for jobs in all industries where people are able to work remotely. We're not quite set to launch yet but for anyone interested in staying updated I'd love you to register here. http://klearsearch.com/

Feedback from this community when we launch would be really great.

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