War for tech talent in NYC • Hacker News Board

Re: War for tech talent in NYC

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:09 AM UTC

nir wrote: post #9

smokinn wrote: post #6

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Sort of. The problem with calling everything a bubble is the implication that bubbles inevitably pop. In our industry, good programmers tend to create a vastly disproportionate amount of value compared to what they're paid. It's easy to pay programmers hundreds of thousands of dollars because with programmers, a few thousands of dollars of computers and some electricity you can make millions. Maybe it's a bubble but…

Well, bubbles do pop. The market was hot 96-2000, then cold say 2001-2005, then got hot till the mortgage crisis, then cold until a few months ago etc. Great programmers can create a lot of value, in the right context . Boo.com ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com ) might have had developers as bright as Amazon's, working just as hard - but in the end they created $0 value.

As an aside, (and apologies if you've read it) "Boo Hoo", the corporate biography of Boo.com's rise and fall, makes for both hilarious and scary reading: http://www.amazon.com/Boo-Hoo-Dot-Com-Story/dp/0099418371

Their technical people did pull off some great feats but ultimately it was a shambles from start to finish.

Re: War for tech talent in NYC

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Post by YuriNiyazov » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 9:44 AM UTC

Hovertruck wrote: post #59

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #4

Who here is an NYC startup and who here is hiring?

We're hiring at Meetup. http://meetup.com/jobs

Have you figured out how to get syntax highlighting and indentation to work correctly in a file that's a mix of JSP, JS, HTML and CSS?

Re: War for tech talent in NYC

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Post by nir » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 3:32 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #61

nir wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, bubbles do pop. The market was hot 96-2000, then cold say 2001-2005, then got hot till the mortgage crisis, then cold until a few months ago etc. Great programmers can create a lot of value, in the right context . Boo.com ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com ) might have had developers as bright as Amazon's, working just as hard - but in the end they created $0 value.

As an aside, (and apologies if you've read it) "Boo Hoo", the corporate biography of Boo.com's rise and fall, makes for both hilarious and scary reading: http://www.amazon.com/Boo-Hoo-Dot-Com-Story/dp/0099418371 Their technical people did pull off some great feats but ultimately it was a shambles from start to finish.

Nice! I wasn't aware of this book, will add it to my list.

Re: War for tech talent in NYC

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Post by shafqat » Tue, Jan 04, 2011, 10:52 AM UTC

dotnetrock wrote: post #47

shafqat wrote: post #44

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NewsCred is hiring - we're looking for information retrieval engineers. So any experience (or even interest) in search, IR, solr, lucene, machine learning etc would be great. If not, willingness to learn. We'd love on site, but would consider the remote option if the fit is great, and the remote location is near NYC.

How do you guys make money since there is no pricing or any info on what the service will cost.

We're a B2B company. We charge other web publishers a monthly fee to access our content API. Depending on what kind of content they need and how big they are, the pricing starts at 1K/month to 5 digits/month...