I agree... cut out the animation, its too distracting and just as you start to read one page it changes to the next, I would recommend a clean, concise tab that explains what features the app has and why I would want to start using it
yes I do understand. Keep in mind this is someone I've never talked to before, they call me during working hours and have some expectation that I will answer and when I don't they just decide rather than leave a message and call back a day or two later they are just going to keep childishly calling me back, interrupting my work in the process. I can understand if its someone with whom I've already had contact and I agreed to make myself available but only a salesperson / recruiter would actually believe that I am the one being rude.
They shouldn't be allowed to use it. Who really wants to live in a 'fishbowl' world where every corporate entity and government organization can have full access to every minute detail of your life. It opens the door for rampant discrimination
I think I have an old resume up there.. also, its definitely more than 1 person, although some do call repeatedly, its amazing how rude they can be, if you don't answer they call again in 20 minutes and keep doing this 3-4 times.
Yeah, I agree.. well I have also gotten some emails (from seemingly similar types of "recruiters") who do some sketchy things such as asking me to fill out a form with SS#, etc, obviously these go right to my spam box.
I think they are too lazy to actually look at your profile, they just do a keyword search and then contact you directly form the search page (you can still do this on LinkedIn if memory serves me correctly), apparently, being bothered to click on your profile and read through it would take too much of their precious time
Has anyone else noticed a trend of getting a lot of calls from offshore recruiters? I don't mean to sound xenophobic but I seem to get this stream of calls now (often 1-2 per day) from "recruiters" who I can barely understand as they have very thick accents, that are using poor phone connections (obviously over VOIP). My solution is that I don't answer the phone unless I'm expecting a call, everything goes to voicemail for me to weed through later. I am fairly open about putting my phone number up on resumes publicly, as it has benefited me before, so I guess its a price to pay but I just find it odd and can't help but wonder if they are actually recruiting for a real position or just trying to scam me in some way.
yes, this is, however the underage person can't be held liable for charges, basically its the parent's card but they authorized the child to use it (its not supposed to count for the child's credit score either but they usually put it on anyways)
Yes, I can see how it could become not benign. With the way the government has been going, I could see them wanting access to all this data and even start doing something like profiling people's buying habits.. oh, so you frequently buy packs of mini zip-lock bags (the kind they sell weed and pills in)... must be a drug dealer.. the fear is mainly that the government would become active in profiling people's buying habits, they are already trying to gain more power over online data and I can see them doing it for this too.
I think this sort of data collection could use some more regulation (in the form of consumer protection). Personally, I prefer to limit info I give to companies, I rarely put real info on those in-store cards, etc
In the U.S. it is illegal to offer credit to anyone under the age of 18 as they cannot legally enter into contracts. It would be a huge liability for a credit card company as the contract for credit (and thus right to request repayment) would essentially never be valid, although presumably they could go after the person's legal guardians for payment.
this is one of the reasons I've been finding myself paying with cash more and more. While this seems fairly benign at first glance its becoming rather disturbing how much data is being collected and analyzed about consumers. In some ways I'm for stricter privacy laws like those in the EU.
I like to think I can program more than 3-4 hours a day sustainably, I know I've had days where I worked for 8 hours (although its not always pure programming) and then came home and worked for hours more on personal projects, or also worked on the weekend on a personal project for many hours.
The thing is though that I have a habit of distracting myself fairly often by going on here to read articles, Reddit, etc, I'd say I normally wouldn't go more than half an hour without some forced distraction, often times even more often that that. I think doing something like this can help to keep you mentally fresh, at least it seems to work for me
This 'run-off' idea can get expensive very fast, maybe not for a company, but it would be expensive for an individual person without significant cash flow
I tried this a little bit back before I made much programming experience (but I had some), basically I realized it can lead to wasting a lot of money, it can work for small things but its really hard to manage unless you can get someone in a similar time zone, otherwise just too much time goes by between communications and its hard to stay on the same page, unless you stay up all night to be online with them.
You have to be careful too as some will start working on a project for a day or two and seem to know what they're doing but then all of a sudden productivity will drop to nearly zero, for whatever reason (they found a better paying gig, busy with other stuff, etc)
EDIT: Now that I think about it more, you can find some people who are definitely good but they are not going to be dirt cheap, the few good people I did work with I usually ended up hiring just for small tasks as it was something I needed done but I couldn't have afforded to employ them on a regular basis, usually it seems the minimum rate is $25-30 per hour, which is cheap for a company but it can be hard to swing that if you're just paying out of your own finances.
Also, these people tend to like to work on specific tasks to where they can estimate the hours and they would usually have a few clients at once, it would be hard to get them to give their full focus to you for an ongoing project, I think, unless you could demonstrate stability to them where they felt comfortable turning down other gigs to keep working with you.
They also don't usually want to invest any time in learning your project structure, setup, etc so if you want things done a certain way it can be hard to get them to do it unless you are going to pay them for time spent reading documentation, etc. You can find newbie dev's who will attempt to follow your structure, etc, but they tend to not be of the best quality.
Thanks for the reply.. I agree Scala and Clojure are interesting but Ruby seems to be the most in-demand so would like to pick it up first, I have used JRuby a bit and being able to use Java when necessary I think would definitely be beneficial, but overall it seems doing a lot of web apps in Java may not be as good idea as I had originally thought
Actually I started to build something that is a job search "augmentation" tool, it uses the Indeed.com API and uses a roll-out sidebar to list job openings and then you can go through them and then mark them blocked, applied to, saved, etc to filter through them so you never have to look at the full list again, I built the original solution using the Java stack and used it a bit for my own purposes, now that I'm getting more into Ruby I think I might rebuild it using Rails and see if I can make it into a more fully featured application, I think there is potential to add in more features similar to what you have mentioned (like being able to associate contact names with a job ad, etc).
On a side note, something I have realized is how fundamentally broken and annoying a lot of companies' job application process is. The sites that make you create an account on some barely working site that looks like it was built in 1995, then force you to basically manually fill out pieces of your resume into various input fields, are rather appalling. It is a good way to filter out the companies that probably wold suck to work for though as you can tell right away how much they care about interfacing with their employees.
Actually, I used Python a bit before getting into Java, I think at this point Ruby seems more appealing, it would be nice to find a role at some point after I learn Ruby to where I can still benefit from my Java experience. Just doing Java, though, I guess I'm starting to feel a bit stifled.. just reading job ads for Ruby vs. Java is such a world of difference, most employers looking for Java devs def have the 'old school' mentality
I completely feel for you, I was in a somewhat similar situation although was working purely as a contractor for a startup. I was the sole web developer and basically took idea from conception to launch, for a rather budget rate as I was light on experience at the time, yet would still get all kinds of flack at times, basically I've come to realize that 'business' people often simply don't and won't ever have respect for what developers do. Having worked for a company also that is 'mature', 10 years old, or so, that is run by sales and business people, I can say its the same thing, there is a lack of trust and respect on their part for the engineering team, even though software is their core product and without the developers the company couldn't even exist. Really the only way to get away from this, IMO, is to work for companies that have someone with a dev background at the top, its the only way a company can ever truly "get it"
I agree about Acer, I have a Quad core Acer of some sort (8GB memory), not even sure what model it is, it was bought about 6 months ago for around $600 and I run Ubuntu on it. It is great for developing, the only issue I have is that I've noticed its slow after you boot it up, like it takes at longer than it seems it should to open a web browser for the first time or open an IDE but after the first 1-2 min of booting up everything goes fine.
Ok, I think I see the situation then more clearly, the jump you speak of (from 85-90 to 150k) doesn't happen in some other areas as much, from what I can tell in my current location its much more linear and the quality of dev's overall is lower with less supply (thus someone in my shoes could be in higher demand), so perhaps I'm better off staying in a lower cost area until I do have more experience as my purchasing power is substantially higher.
Its a good package, basically I'm fine with this just about anywhere else but if I move near SF my housing cost almost doubles from what it is now out of state, (I have pets, fiance, etc so I can't just share a place with roommates), probably would have to commute into the city from further out using public transit
I'm not sure exactly what sort of answer you are expecting. Unless the data you want is in a standardized format (such as a standardized XML schema), any effort to extract data would require writing custom parsers for each set of data that has a different structure. I'm not sure if you are asking for advice on which technology stack to use for writing this or are looking for a pre-made tool that can extract this for you? There may be some tools that can "attempt" to do this without requiring you to write custom code but I am not sure how effective they would be.
This brings up nightmares from when I worked remotely for a startup (they had no in-person office, by the way) and the boss was obsessed with WebEx, I had issues with it working on Ubuntu, also, so I would have to boot up a VM each time to use it. It got to the point where I told him every WebEx we do is a minimum of 1 hour of time wasted for me so lets make sure we really need to do a WebEx before we go down that path.
Is the purpose mainly just to prevent spam / completely unqualified candidates? Its rather trivial to do the post for anyone with dev experience so I can't imagine its much use to actually gauge their skills