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Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'. http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

Thanks for this. I will fix it.

This may happen. I was trying hard to get the all the locations right, although number of formats used may confused things.

Although here Python was recognised as Location, and came before the real Location.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#12
post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking -

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_...

That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers.

That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable than, I don't know, a secretary, the median of whom earns £19k (i.e. only 20% less) and normally requires no skills other than the ability to type and be organized. http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Secretary/Salary

whereas a front-end engineer with php literally programmed Facebook (talking about Zuck), or can program the next one. It's kind of sad, really.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#13
post #5

Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'. http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

There are also a couple "java" locations in the middle of Virginia.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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post #11
post #5

Fusionbox (Denver Colorado) is displayed in a Dutch Themepark. On top of the rollercoaster 'The Python', because their location is 'Python'. http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/51.6468119/5.05352849... http://rcdb.com/897.htm

Thanks for this. I will fix it. This may happen. I was trying hard to get the all the locations right, although number of formats used may confused things. Although here Python was recognised as Location, and came before the real Location.

The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin.

I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#19

Ha! There's a small town in southern Ontario called Ajax and it seems to have placed a job there with AJAX in the description. This is a reasonable error though I think. Very cool overall :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816153

Also, there are four jobs with the text "Amazon" in the listing being shown on the map in Amazon, Montana...

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#20
post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

a front-end engineer with php literally programmed Facebook (talking about Zuck), or can program the next one

That's a pretty glaring logic failure. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg was a PHP developer does not mean that every PHP developer could be Mark Zuckerberg.

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