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Re:Commercial freedom by markkanof on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:44PM (#4781065)
I agree with your assertion and also think that the increased demand for developers in more places is creating a lot of noise which makes it difficult to match up qualified developers with software that needs to be written. This in itself could be a business idea. Recruiters and job boards are a pretty inefficient way to solve the problem. There have been some startups previously featured on HN that are trying to fix that problem, but I think the field is still wide open.
Re:Commercial freedom by meriksson on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:56PM (#4781113)
I agree strongly that this is a wide open space. As an employer I would pay handsomely for recruiting services that I actually believed in. Of all the concepts floating around, I particularly like the idea of programmers having agents, like actors have. I have experimented a bit with this model myself and expect to see a lot of innovation in this area.
Re:Commercial freedom by mdonahoe on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @02:26AM (#4782394)
What did your experimentation entail? I am curious.

Contracting?