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Speaking of, I wonder how many millions an open HN job board could make? The people I'd like to hire are stackoverflow, github, and HN users.
PG can we please do this? We're looking to hire 15+ people right now and we are running out of good people in Toronto.
Won't this have the same problem as linkedin, programmers will delist themselves when they started getting daily calls from desperate recruiters ?
Stack Overflow charges quite a bit of money for the right to search for candidates (plans range from $500 for one week access to $5000 for a year) so that should limit the number of inquiries. Also, you can easily remove yourself from the search results.
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PG can we please do this? We're looking to hire 15+ people right now and we are running out of good people in Toronto.
I am in Toronto. What exactly are you looking for ?
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PG can we please do this? We're looking to hire 15+ people right now and we are running out of good people in Toronto.
If you're willing to work with telecommuters, I'm still looking for a job, with no luck, in the Cincinnati area...
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The tone of your post seems condescending - I really hope that the high number of upvotes is not simply a reflection of how popular is it to dislike Joel. I think his post is straight forward - this is a neat way to do specific searches for programmers. Programmers who use SO might or might not be cool, but they are now searchable.
If my tone is condescending, that's because it is. Don't you know how XKCD Explained works? ;) I find it supremely unsurprising that Joel has decided to sell the user info he collects at the website he helped create. He is exactly that kind of person, who wouldn't see anything wrong with that. After all, it's his website and the privacy policy is clear, right? (sigh) But honestly, I don't dislike Joel. I just am irri…
This isn't selling user details from Stack Overflow (for which all the data is available for download, by the way: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...).
It's a separate service, the users of which have to pay to get listed. I'd say that indicates a pretty strong willingness to be contacted by employers.
I said it before and I'll say it again -- charging people looking for jobs is ridiculous. I don't know who the kid in Houston looking for an OCaml internship is, but how the heck does he have $100 to spend on this?
(1) The $99 fee is paid up-front, not when (if!) hired. (2) There is a limited-time price reduction (to $29) for 2009. (3) They advertise a 90-day, no-questions-asked money back guarantee.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq#pricing
* "Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear..."
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StackOverflow primarily exposes their addictive game-playing, not their communication skills. The rep/badge bullshit encourages inane responses, and the wiki aspects cover the tracks.
It seems to be more about the detailed and correct answer voted up the most that you find from searching something on Google, for that it works really well, not being part of the community there I don't care about that other 10 half assed replies for badges/points
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Some people do both. Why gamble on someone who won't show any of his work when you can just pick someone who does?
Some people are plenty mentally stimulated at work and don't feel the need to work on their own projects in their spare time. And sometimes your professional accomplishments are significant enough that a side project is not likely to make you a much more attractive candidate. The people who "do both" often don't fall in these categories. Also a lot of companies don't want their employees to write code for anyone else…
FUD. I work for a very large corporation, and open source was definitely not a negative when hiring me. Many very important parts of our business are based on open-source technologies. (And many aren't, FWIW.)