Tried applying. When logging in to github got an error: {"type":"Error","msg":"Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames"}
Thanks, this should now be fixed.
Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
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#72Some of the fonts need adjustment, in particular the header and the titles in the search bar (screenshot from Firefox): http://imgur.com/VTLLn5I
Also desperately needs a way to search or filter job listings by keyword.
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#73I started a blog similar to this the other month, however it didn't really get very far (like most side-projects :D). The main thing I wanted to differentiate with other remote job sites are that "remote" usually means "remote in the US". I wanted it to be focussed on jobs available to Europeans, hence the name RemoteTechJobs.eu. That was my first hurdle though, there aren't really that many remote jobs in Europe tha…
agreed. Also, a price range wouldn't hurt.
It would also help if the "Apply for this job" button actually worked. I clicked on that particular position, just to see what would happen, and got "{"type":"Error","msg":"Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames"}"
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#74Great initiative! It seems like remote working is becoming more of a thing lately, which I think is aweseome, after ~7 years in the it-business I've made myself the promise of never taking a mandatory 40h/week inside-the-office-job again. So kudos for helping getting remote offers out there. That said, I always cringe when I see the "employer confidential" flag on job postings... I for one would never apply for a job…
At the same time, some companies that formerly embraced remote employees have decided that it's better to have them under one roof. Recent notable examples: Yahoo and Reddit have told all of their remote employees to relocate or find a new job.
Yahoo was a bit of a freak case. They literally had NO way of telling what people were doing. I don't mean 'they didn't have a system that monitored every keystroke', I mean they had NOTHING. Not even a way to say "did this person complete some problem tickets?" Not sure what happened with Reddit, I hadn't heard of them getting rid of remote workers. Odd because Reddit is exactly the kind of site I would expect to benefit massively from having pretty much the entire staff be remote.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
agreed. Also, a price range wouldn't hurt.
It would also help if the "Apply for this job" button actually worked. I clicked on that particular position, just to see what would happen, and got "{"type":"Error","msg":"Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames"}"
Very sorry about that, should now be fixed and working.
Re: Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the same time, some companies that formerly embraced remote employees have decided that it's better to have them under one roof. Recent notable examples: Yahoo and Reddit have told all of their remote employees to relocate or find a new job.
Yahoo was a bit of a freak case. They literally had NO way of telling what people were doing. I don't mean 'they didn't have a system that monitored every keystroke', I mean they had NOTHING. Not even a way to say "did this person complete some problem tickets?" Not sure what happened with Reddit, I hadn't heard of them getting rid of remote workers. Odd because Reddit is exactly the kind of site I would expect to be…
Re: Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
#77I started a blog similar to this the other month, however it didn't really get very far (like most side-projects :D). The main thing I wanted to differentiate with other remote job sites are that "remote" usually means "remote in the US". I wanted it to be focussed on jobs available to Europeans, hence the name RemoteTechJobs.eu. That was my first hurdle though, there aren't really that many remote jobs in Europe tha…
Very interesting points. To be honest I created this board out of similar frustrations (applying for a "remote" job ad only to find out that it meant within the USA only). I like your point about how job listing should work both ways - I think that SomewhereHQ comes close to doing this.
Also, good job on getting RemoteTechJobs.eu up and running. Another reason I built the job board (and built it quickly in 2 weeks) was to force myself to get something done and ship it on time. It's great to see other people doing the same.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think it's bullshit?
As someone who has interests outside code, and works on propietary software, I don't have code that I have open sourced. Does that make me a bad developer? (In fact, looking at my toolchain and libraries, I don't think anything I'm working with is Open Source at all... yay games)
It puts you at a significant disadvantage. Right or wrong, that's the way it is.
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#79Call me old school, but I've always felt the term "coder" was a diminutive, while "programmer" (as used in the title) is more appropriate. I think of a coder as someone mindlessly implementing logic that someone else has laid out before them... while a programmer is someone who comprehends the problem, develops an algorithm and implements it. Of course, these days with so much work being about setting up a UI on what…
"RemoteCoder" sounded shorter and sweeter as a name which is why I went with it. So it was really about marketing, no offence to developers/programmers (I'm one myself after all ;)
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Lots of developers do really great work in their day jobs committing code to closed source projects, or have private projects in a different VCS/Git location (such as a personal GitLab install). Whilst worthy, a developer's contributions to OSS or public code commits aren't the only determining factor of their quality/hireability.
It's not the only determining factor, but seeing someone's code is the best way to know that they are good at it. And GitHub is the best place to publish code for this purpose. From a purely practical perspective, being a developer who exclusively works on closed-source code in 2014 is a bad career decision.
> seeing someone's code is the best way to know they are good at it Depends on the context. I have lots of pure crap in my bitbucket and github accounts, because I tinker and explore outside of my day job. I even have one project that is almost complete (that is, it functions without bugs and doesn't make me want to scratch my eyes out when I look at the UI), but because I work on it for an hour here, an hour there, in the capacity of said exploration, the quality of the code is...less than stellar. Yet somehow I manage to be employed without a single gap in my resume.
That I don't have a high-code-quality complete project in these locations says one thing and one thing only about me, with respect to being a signal to employers: I'm not willing to devote myself 100%, heart-and-soul, to programming at my peak for 10+ hours a day.
You're deluding yourself if you think your comment about being a bad career decision applies outside of a small sphere (usually web-dev or mobile-dev for startups seeking a very particular kind of employee (young, naive, willing to work long and hard for relatively lesser pay). I have yet to see a job I'd be otherwise qualified for or interested in list "have a github profile with projects for us to look at" as a requirement, or even a nice-to-have. Certainly that won't necessarily last forever, but right now it's not a bad career decision for a great many (vast majority) to eschew public display of their personal code projects.
Frankly, I view the insistence on public display of personal code in the same category as I view trivia-quiz-interviewing: they're both bandwagon nonsense things that people convince themselves are highly effective ways to measure people.