itgoon

Eh, I'll just reply:

I'm a high-energy, dynamic individual who is up-to-date on modern technology who works great on teams. I'm looking for a job!

Easiest match ever.

'Bout time!

That's how I find most of my long-term work.

As someone else mentioned, I update it when I'm looking for a job. That kicks off a bunch of messages and invites from recruiters.

There's the usual hits and misses, but it works fine for me.

Hey, since we practically know each other, could I borrow $20?

Thanks!

I'll be sure and pack snacks.

/yea, me too

I was thinking RPis with nrf24l01 chips. You could do everything with custom encryption.

It seems to me that an opportunity presents itself: work with the shelters on ingress/egress issues. Amazon should be pretty good at it by now.

If it makes it easier for both sides to get what they want, it's not even that big of an expense.

If they keep trying, and learning from their mistakes, I'll be happy to forget the initial missteps.

Windows 10 to Windows 2008 R2, no cert. I just click past the warning. Everything works just as it did with Win7.

It seems to me that for some the problem isn't just that other people are blunt/assholes/etc.

It's that many people lack the skills necessary to deal with assholes.

I don't think trying to create conflict-free workplaces (as opposed to personal environments) is a good answer.

There isn't really a drone community. With RC, almost everybody involved was an enthusiast who would meet with other enthusiasts.

Anybody interested, even for a few minutes, can get a drone. This is the RC world's "Eternal September".

Poor guest support is why I ended up switching from FreeBSD to Linux for my test server.

I'd like to go back, but I can't justify a single box for a single instance - I run lots of VMs, using all operating systems.

So I'm glad to see this, and I hope they continue the improvements.

It may have been contracting agencies. They can be pretty uneven, in my experience.

Do you want to beat Uber? Pay the drivers better.

Uber has shown that this is plenty of money to be made. Let the drivers get it. Choke off Uber's resources.

There will be harmony among the engineers as soon as we all agree on the best text editor.

Heh. Yea, I remember all that. If you know how to spell "HTML", you were certain to be a billionaire by 30.

Right. I don't see much difference between this and people who have asked for money over the years. Some have been totally worthwhile, others have been straight up fraud.

Same thing, on the internet. Someone should patent it.

That looks very cool. Is it going to crush my processor? I'll give it a shot after I'm done with my work.

Agreed. It's also easy to forget that Gates was able to do it all because he was so drastically undercutting the very expensive status-quo.

Had he not insisted on keeping so much control, it might have been even longer before computing was available to the general masses.

As I heard it, the "fork in the road" quote is referring to his house. It had a road leading up to it that split into two roads, then came back together at the house.

So, those were specific instructions. It didn't matter which way you went, you would end up at his house. It was just delivered in a funny way.

I hope this idea takes off. The compensation part is going to be the hardest part.

I don't think candidates will have a problem with it (I don't), but I don't know how many employers will go for it. I assume there's a pretty decent phone screen first?

In any event, I sent a signup request.

Huh. It seems I'm the only one here who finds value in LinkedIn.

Yes, it has led to actual, paying jobs. It takes some management on my part, but it's a lot easier than hunting around from site to site, or going to meetups, or any of that other stuff.

Do I get spammed? Sure. That's why I have a specific email account for them. Some of the spam is quite informative. I learn about openings early on, and can often find the hiring company by taking the text of the spam and searching the various job boards.

I get genuine requests, too. I take the time to respond to those just as genuinely.

For all the talk of the importance of networking around here, I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy. It's very low effort, just a few minutes a week.

I regard a lot of the complaints as symptomatic of the overall industry. I finally started going to meetups, and the signal-to-noise is just as bad, if not worse.

People don't want to hear the truth. They want to hear they already know the truth.

How do you know that the culture you're hiring for is all that great for getting results?

Is this culture the one you're going to need in the future?

What if you have a need, and there's nobody that fits your culture? If you're understaffed, is it really better to keep asking your staff to work extra while you satisfy the culture requirement, even if it's just while someone ramps up?

Lastly, "culture" seems to be another way of saying "we don't really know what works, so we just look for people we personally like".

I've worked with many people I didn't like, or even got along with (I'm sure others could say the same of me). Focusing on tasks and goals, communicating regularly, and having decent work habits went very far.

That makes sense, thank you.

I missed that one - thanks!

Less "move fast and break things", and more "maximized maximization" overkill.

You see it all through these threads: any turnover costs money, a sub-optimal employee costs too much, everything comes down to cost.

Okay, I get it. IT is a cost center. A good company should minimize those costs. There's a point of diminishing returns for everything, and I think we've long since passed it in compensation.

I think things would work better if various managers and leaders could accept that they just aren't that smart. Rather than try to squeeze every last bit, accept that they can't, and build it into their businesses.

That would mean scheduling time and money to handle turnover. Which would mean running a little "fat" all the time. Since the only metric that matters is "cost", then that doesn't happen.

So, an employee leaves, everyone else falls behind trying to not only make up their work, but make time to hire and train someone else. Schedules and budgets are blown. Everyone says "we have to do something", to justify being called "leaders".

We've reached a point where everybody is out of ideas. There may some tweak here and there that can be made, but this is it. This is as cheap as things are going to get.

The sooner employers figure it out, the sooner things will get better.

Nice writeup, especially the part about internal recruitment incentives.

Thank you.

If I write working code, do I keep ownership? If you use my idea for improving your product, will I be compensated, even if you don't hire me?

I hadn't heard about that - that's great news! I may finally be able to start stealthing it into test environments.