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Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by JDiculous » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

This is awesome. Seriously. I never go through the regular "Who is Hiring?" thread because I don't have time to comb through a humongous list of unfiltered text posts, 90% of which aren't relevant to me. There have been other attempts to format the thing, but this is the best I've seen so far.

One minor bug: I'm seeing a listing titled "---" that starts with "I am a Junior Front End Developer. I eventually want to go into...". Seems to have picked up a comment by accident and interpreted it as a job posting.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#22

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

It'd be cool if it'd show a precision circle (a la Apple Maps) rather than make it look like 49 London companies are in exactly the same spot.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by jarek » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: 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…

"Individuals Reporting: 34"

This data is shit. If your skills are anywhere near programming Facebook circa 2004 you will be making way more than £25k.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by bhousel » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

xando wrote: post #6

meritt wrote: post #2

This is pretty cool. I'd advise not changing the URL with every map movement and instead let the user generate a linkable URL upon demand. This created quite the enormous history list after only using a few minutes.

To be honest this didn't cross my mind. But true, I should do something about it.

You can keep your urls sharable and avoid breaking the back button by storing the map state in the url hash.

something like: `location.hash = '#map/' + mapLat + '/' + mapLng + '/'+ mapZoom;`

Here's an example of one I made for a client recently. http://www.btforasthma.com/find-a-clinic?ctry=US&state=NY&lo...

Incidentally, if anyone is looking to hire a consultant with mapping experience, hit me up.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#25

Post by rodolphoarruda » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

That's why I want to move away from Latin America...

About the tool itself. Great work! It really helps saving us time when looking for opps within a certain region.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#26

Post by tudorw » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

Wow, only 5 out of the 50 jobs in London are offered remotely, I thought the Internet was meant to change things!

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#27

Post by j_jochem » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

lake99 wrote: post #14

xando wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you zoom in, it is actually placed in Frankfurt an der Oder. I'm not sure how they got THAT idea.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

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Post by lorenzhs » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC

Saus wrote: 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

L.A. is also mapped to Augsburg, Germany: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/48.3251666937866/10.8...

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#29

Post by zenonu » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC

kirchhoff wrote: post #4

This breaks the back button.

Broken on Version 43.0.2357.130 m of Chrome.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#30

Post by sz4kerto » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:06 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: 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…

And programmers in the City make >100k. Not all of them, of course, but many. And 80k is average.