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General - Encosia
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Hear me jabber about myself on The Hello World Podcast. Updated May 10, 2015. During his adventure around the world. My friend Shawn Wildermuth. Recently found a few minutes to have me on his podcast: The Hello World Podcast. But I don’t think I’ve ever talked about what I did to it within about a year that nearly gave my parents a heart attack. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to learn about that (and hear Shawn make the same sound mother did in 1982 when she saw my handiwork). From the first batch ...
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Is npm worth $2.6MM?
http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm
Steve Klabnik is writing on the Svbtle. February 12, 2014. Is npm worth $2.6MM? Yesterday, npm, Inc. announced that it had closed a $2.6MM round of funding. This was met with a bunch of derision on Twitter. I feel this is not only unwarranted, but backwards: I think this investment signals a nascent trend within the VC community, and a more honest view of how open source actually works. How VC investment works. Npm, Inc ('npm’ for the rest of this post) received an investment of $2.6MM, which means t...
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Thoughts on fixing tech recruiting
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April 5, 2014. Thoughts on fixing tech recruiting. Articles have been written about engineering. In the valley while some solutions have been suggested (like increasing. Equity grants to engineers), the bigger issue of broken. Pipeline has not gained the attention it deserves. Its a job of recruiters to source potential candidates and most recruiters are compensated in form of a percentage (usually 20-30%) of annual base salary of the hired individual. This way, recruiter will be incentivized. To focus o...
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USA and Global news from ATLANTIC: Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Think)
http://news-in-usa.blogspot.com/2014/02/imagine-getting-30-job-offers-month-it.html
USA and Global news from ATLANTIC. USA news from ATLANTIC. Enjoy! Thursday, 27 February 2014. Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Think). Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Think). David Heinemeier Hansson is a book author, a public speaker, a photographer, a father, a race car driver, and the founder and CTO of the productivity software firm Basecamp. He is probably best known, however, as the creator of Ruby on Rails. If so, let me. This was ...
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Developers Respond - The Recruiter Project
http://recruiterproject.org/blog/2014/03/19/developers-respond
Recruiters are continually looking for technical talent, and they know it’s overwhelming. Just yesterday one opened an e-mail to me with:. Ldquo;I am a recruiter, and I am guessing you receive a dozen messages every day from people like me trying to convince you that their company is the best place in the world.”. Https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? Https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? Https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? Go search Hacker News. Ldquo;Do you hate getting spam from Recruiters? Ldquo;We have a d...
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My Blog | Page 2
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8220;Work Advice and Techniques for Hillbillies” — a Fair and Impartial Review of “Remote: Office Not Required”. 8220;Work Advice and Techniques for Hillbillies” — a Fair and Impartial Review of “Remote: Office Not Required”. April 14, 2015. 8220;Work Advice and Techniques for Hillbillies” — a Fair and Impartial Review of “Remote: Office Not Required”. So, what is this book really about? Yes, this is snarky of me, but it’s also all basically true, and it seems to me that anyone who indulges in gros...