iwangulenko

interesting idea; I know prices for SaaS are hard to get right but somehow I find your pricepoint a bit too high because I feel most podcast uploaded to youtube always listen in the background

It always depends from which perspective you're looking at things; compared to the Swiss the Germans are rather chaotic and nothing works there.

(Grew up in Germany and now live since ~5 years in Switzerland)

Really great question about founder vs. being an employee and what it means going back to being an individual contributor.

In Europe, I see that it is hardly possible; if you have been a founder, firms think you aren't loyal.

Tech recruiter from Zurich here.

Great idea.

Do you consider to add geographic information? The same job can be quite different in different locations; work conditions and laws differ a lot.

I understand that in the beginning that might segment the website too much.

I think "well-written" is subjective, so how to aggregate it so everyone finds the content interesting?

killer feature suggestion: You can ask people to download a pdf from their Linkedin profile and parse that (it is doable because it is standardized and a lot of startups depend on it, so unlikely that Linkedin will change it)

Tech recruiter here.

Love the templates, they are very readable.

Yet, the biggest problem with such builders is that people hate data-entry.

Awesome to see fasting going more and more into the mainstream.

My dad always fasts when he has any kind of sickness; he says the body then can focus only on beating the disease.

Fasting is hard and most Westerners never do it; the religions of the world proof the opposite: Fasting is natural and "Lindy" (passed the test of time).

Web scrapping is a huge problem and I am happy to seem more usable solution but why do you need these permissions from me:

See, edit, create, and delete ALL of your Google Drive files

See, edit, create, and delete ALL your spreadsheets in Google Drive

Quatico.com |Senior Software Engineer (Java), Fullstack, Frontend (React) | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: 90k-130k CHF | ONSITE | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders only

We are a 20-person team building tailored web apps with heavy number crunching on the server. Our products are analyzing the weather data in Switzerland, running the trading dashboards of small private banks and do much more!

Our interview process:

1) Phone screen with our CTO

2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).

3) Onsite half a day with us.

Tell us if you want to hear more and say hi:

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Study "The Elements of Style" (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk-...), a classic on better writing. It will teach you about how to really write for the reader and not for yourself.

Interesting, maybe just use white instead of yellow? Mostly it is a problem that people have too little light when they do video calls.

Interesting. What do you use it for in your daily work?

Has anyone any idea what that means to the average joe? How to protect one's purchasing power?

If the government can give you free money (1200$ checks), it also has the power to take everything away from you, right?

The study says that "we will take the route that worked yesterday and ignore the evidence of what normally works best"

If you just drove a route yesterday, you remember it best and maybe that is why you chose it again, not because of some "evil human bias"?

I think Taleb said coronavirus isn't one because pandemics are a known thing.

As someone running a technical recruitment agency, I can assure you that it is true that someone having built stuff in Clojure is more likely to be considered as a good engineer than someone who did JQuery all the time.

Recruiters use an intuitive approach to conditional probability. Given only the info alone (if someone did JQuery or Clojure) exposes you to two bell curves, with the X-axis being "programming ability". The first bell curve that has all JQuery people is more on "the left" and the one having all Clojurians is more on the right. The Clojure bell curve has shitty engineers and some really good people are part of the JQuery one.

Prejudice is sort of rational. If a recruiter looks at one datapoint, it's unlikely that it is at the tails of the bell curve, so the Clojurian applicant will get more attention. If you are treated unfairly because of the group you "belong to", I am sorry - but this is reality.

Programmer and owner of a technical recruitment agency here. I forked and rewrote the thing to make it more appealing to recruiters: https://gist.github.com/iwangu/b0d8b8e140afdd4e30bb7e401babc... I mainly removed things that sound patronising to me.

I think many HR people will just ignore you if you e-mail what OP posted. Once, I wrote a blogpost why programmers don't get jobs due to random factors ("Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Four horror stories" https://goo.gl/v4PUWV), but being patronising and "explaining programming to HR" is one of the things where you just shoot yourself in the foot by being too demanding too early in the process. You can be demanding ONLY AFTER they told you that they want to hire you, but not before.

A tip for e-mailing HR and business e-mails in general: Try to never signal that you will be hard to work with. Always be kind and even a little bit submissive. Don't try to teach people something, don't quote authors and don't do footnotes. Imagine the person will take a maximum of 3 seconds per paragraph and 10 seconds in total to read your e-mail. There is a chance the reader is listening to an audiobook or is watching Youtube while answering e-mails in a cubicle. If you need to discuss something critical, invite the person for a phone call. Salary, negotiating or deviating from a standard process (like here) should be discussed in person/in a call.

Hope that helps to get some insight from "the other side".

Switzerland, Zurich is the only place in Europe where you can earn Bay Area salaries; I am a software engineer/tech recruiter hiring on behalf of a handful of Swiss companies. If you look for a job (https://coderfit.com/openedjobs/), or know some engineeres who are, please reach out to me. You find my email in my HN-handle.

(From an employee's perspective, Switzerland can be counted "as an EU country" since you can work here with an EU passport.)

A tech job in Europe does not mean Berlin or London. Zurich has the ETH university and the biggest Google office outside the US. It is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with the Bay Area.

Salaries are in the range of 7000 - 10.000 CHF / month after taxes and apartments can be way cheaper than in San Francisco.

Zurich is expensive but als tiny. Almost everyone lives "in the suburbs" where the rents are half as much and which only means a 10-15 min commute[1] to town (using the superb public transport).

I am a technical recruiter with a software engineering background and I live in Zurich. You find my email address in my HN-handle.

You can win on the fact that food is so much cheaper in Germany. I mean, French, Durch, Austrian, and Swiss people shop in Germany on weekends, if they live on the border and have a family to feed etc.

Zurich is not particularly on the border, but I have to go there anyway for various reasons once in a while and usually I come back with a suitcase full of food.

Also dentists in Germany are bound to fixed prices for certain things like checkups (a checkup in Germany costs like 23 Euro), so that is also massively cheaper and justifies the ride.

You don't have the possibility to win on this geographic arbitrage in NYC or the Bay area. Although there "crazy" salaries (>200k USD / year) are probably more common than here.

That article reminds me of http://blog.tagesanzeiger.ch/datenblog/; these Swiss guys are trying to copy the "datablog" http://www.theguardian.com/data. I think the tagesanzeiger.ch guys make even better work sometimes and they make heavy use of D3. (btw. if you look for a job in Zurich, I am a tech-recruiter)