Re:Ask HN: Why so many job boards get created?
by smt88 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:53PM
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Job-posting data is bad. It's often unstructured walls of text with ASCII bullet points.
Programmers see this as a fixable problem and many are tempted to take a stab at it, only to realize that it's a much harder problem than it seems. Their solution doesn't fix the problem, other programmers think they can improve on it, and the cycle continues.
Programmers see this as a fixable problem and many are tempted to take a stab at it, only to realize that it's a much harder problem than it seems. Their solution doesn't fix the problem, other programmers think they can improve on it, and the cycle continues.