fraserm

Re:How many f-bombs does it take to hire an engineer? A lot apparently on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#9396533)

Not sure if this kind of "shock" ad would actually end up in any high quality candidates. At least it is a nice change from the usual cookie cutter job specs.

Re:Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:53PM (#7524652)

Has any Github code or practices put you off interviewing someone so far? What kind of dev test do you do? Question and answer or give them a spec to implement?

Re:32 bit version of KDB+ is now free for commercial use on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:43AM (#7523147)

There is also an sql like interface in addition to the Q and K languages. This is probably easier to get started than diving into Q if that is too daunting.

Re:Ask HN: Where do I go from here? on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:37AM (#7521609)

Is your issue that you need cash to fund business expenses or a developer to add features to grow the product?

If the latter and you are confident in quickly adding revenue why not offer some equity/percentage of profit in lieu of salary? If the product is interesting you should be able to find someone willing to take on the risk.

The whoishiring thread would be a decent place to start.

Ask HN: Effects of hiring based on GitHub

Posted by fraserm on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A growing part of the industry over the past several years is making github or other open source code examples mandatory for the application process.Since I am interested in recruitment what changes have HN users noticed?- Has the average quality of interview candidates increased?- Do impressive open source contributions correlate with high performance when hired into your company?- Do...

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Re:Ask HN: Feedback for my startup – https://pho.cl on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:11AM (#7521372)

Would it be an idea to implement OpenID? This would allow you to pull the user details and means users don't need yet another password to access your site.

Since Flickr is starting to require a Yahoo login for access it may be an idea to start there.