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Re: HN Hiring

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Post by necubi »

gee_totes wrote: post #9
necubi wrote: post #6

Hey everyone, I'm the creator of hnhiring.me. Surprised to see it pop up now, as I haven't done much with the site in the past couple of years. It's still being updated every month with the latest "Who's Hiring?" post, though, so hopefully people have found it useful. The source is also on GitHub ( http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring ). As an aside, I've been meaning for ages to do analysis of hiring trends based on th…

Hi! I also build job scrapers ( http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com ) and have a question about the dependency on redis... why not just generate a time-stamp within the ruby scraper (which you already do) and store it within the resultant json itself? Then you can use string comparison to see if the next scrape has returned a more accurate time-stamp and just overwrite that part of the string. Basically my question is wh…

That would definitely be an improvement. When I originally wrote this in 2011, I had just a few hours, so I went with the quickest solution. For little personal side projects like this I find that Redis makes a great persistent hash map for storing bits of data between runs of a script.

Re: HN Hiring

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Post by orware »

I posted this earlier this month (contains MySQL database exports of the threads and comments going back to 2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128

In the link above you can get a copy of the threads/comments data up until May 2014 for the HN Hiring threads (I didn't do anything for the Freelancers ones).

My initial goal was to do the same (do an analysis of the data) so I also have an additional schema created that would allow us to associate the variety of programming languages, tools, locations, and companies together in a structured way.

I have an idea of how I want to create a frontend that users could contribute to (I'd like to gamify it a bit so contributors can get some props on the site for helping get the data analyzed, since that is a pretty manual process), but haven't had the time to work on it.

Re: HN Hiring

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Post by larsberg »

necubi wrote: post #6

Hey everyone, I'm the creator of hnhiring.me. Surprised to see it pop up now, as I haven't done much with the site in the past couple of years. It's still being updated every month with the latest "Who's Hiring?" post, though, so hopefully people have found it useful. The source is also on GitHub ( http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring ). As an aside, I've been meaning for ages to do analysis of hiring trends based on th…

This would be more useful to me (as a hiring manager) with something that encouraged better links to somebody's accounts / portfolio / etc. instead of just their usually-empty HN profile.

e.g., I'm currently looking to contract somebody for some devops work here at Mozilla Research, and going through the set of listings that have 'devops' in them and actually finding a link to a resume / github account / anything more substantial than a twitter feed is pretty maddening.

Re: HN Hiring

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Post by piratebroadcast »

This seems an appropriate place to mention that I do Rails and Front-End in Boston and am looking for a full-time Jr Dev position somewhere- I can be reached at my username at gmail. Thanks!

Re: HN Hiring

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Post by samsnelling »

yaur wrote: post #2

hnhire.me (available at this moment) would be a better domain hack IMO. Also deceptive title, but nice idea.

I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!

Re: HN Hiring

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Post by repsilat »

lwhalen wrote: post #19

It might be useful to add a filter to specify remote-only, local-only, or some combination of the two.

You could try to do it programmatically, but I'd also let users tag/fix things as well.
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