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I've met exactly one recruiter out of literally hundreds that I've interacted with who was worth a crap. I looked him up and found out he had participated in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

The problem is that there is no barrier to entry to becoming a tech recruiter. Or maybe there is, but that barrier to entry is previously selling cell phones or something -- I'm not sure.

I don't talk to 3rd party recruiters basically ever anymore.

Briefly skimming your previous comments, it looks like you're a former developer and based in the UK, so those are things that I don't have a lot of experience with in recruiters.
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Yes, this is quite common. For a while I was getting contacted almost exclusively through my Dice profile and even with a note that they should email me first, I'd still get called first extremely often.
I'm working on building something similar, but don't want to have a computer on full time to run it.

I'm using an PCEngines Alix board as the main control, and a remote relay board to run the garage door. I suppose I should write that up...
Not to bring down everything to sexuality, but a sexually pushy woman would be typically labeled a "slut." Which is why a woman will almost never ask a man out.

I'm female. I have found it's really tough to try to initiate a relationship with a man because the default is to treat me like a "slut" if I do so and then get really threatened/angry/hostile when it turns out I am not throwing myself at him sexually, I am actually looking for a relationship. I've concluded that what "slut" means is really "someone who indiscriminately serves the needs of men/others". "Women looking to serve their own needs" is something society doesn't seem to really have a term for.

(Anyone know of such a term? I would be happy to be proven wrong and enlightened that it's just my whacked life that lacks this concept. Men who sleep around tend to get called "Players" and the assumption is they are taking advantage/doing the using. "Slut" is generally a term we use to indicate the party being used/in the subservient position.)
"It's easy to change one's mind."

Citation needed :)
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Everything can be negotiated, and non-competes are no exception. A non-compete can be more or less restrictive. Everytime I sign one I try to make sure it's reasonable. That means that you should agree not to compete in the same space you're working on. Everything broader than that you should try to negotiate.

So for any non-compete that reads "anything you do on your free time belongs to the company" you should try your best not to sign it. Negotiate! It makes sense. If you work for facebook and you're building an alternative social network on your spare time, it's reasonable for facebook to claim ownership (because you're likely using inside information). If you're developing a new music distribution software, then you should be ok.

The commitment discussion is secondary. Either you perform according to expectations or you don't. If you don't, the company can fire you. Non-competes are not tools to measure your performance. That's my understanding and the argument I'd use to negotiate non-competes. Non-competes regulate IP. Labor law regulates performance (i.e. commitment).
Not that again. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285247
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Unfortunately, unsolicited recruiters like this come in swarms. The worst one I've seen so far sent two separate emails and neglected to fill in the template fields in their form letter, e.g. "Hi $name, We have the perfect $desc candidate for you!".
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Several years web development experience - I can build a web app from the ground up or work on existing apps.

My strong suits are with PHP, Zend Framework, J2EE but have also worked with django a little.

Would be interested in transitioning into Ruby on Rails or Android development so I could give a discount on the rate if you are willing to take a chance.

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As far as I see (with my limited Haskell and Clojure knowledge), Haskell, being pure functional, has a much steeper learning curve than Clojure, which while mostly functional, focuses a bit more on being practical.

Furthermore, Clojure can use the already existing Java libraries, while in Haskell's case, the number of available libraries is considerably smaller. Clojure plays nicely with Java, so you can mix and match Clojure developers with Java devs, and they won't go for each other's throat.

Haskell doesn't play all that well with any other language.
I think if there's any challenger to Facebook as the dominant social network, it could well be WhatsApp.

They're gathering a very large network of teenage users, completely avoiding the web, and becoming an alternative to both Twitter and email for group messaging.

When you look at what they provide, it's pretty much everything I use from Facebook, without the noise.
EDIT: please repost your question here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303323 I'll do the same with my answer :)

Terrible payment gateways: AFAIK, based on many comments by the newest providers in the US, the biggest problem is exactly that of different regulations for different EU countries. Creating better options requires different solutions for each country, so it is very expensive. With a harmonized system, you would be able to create a solution for 500 million potential users - it would be worth the effort.

Unfriendly legislation: The EU parliament can force national legislations to become friendlier, and especially to make it easier for a startup to operate in the whole EU.

Tax legislation: I'm not thinking about revenues taxation, but registration fees and mechanism and controls and the likes. There could be interventions from the EU Parliament to harmonize them, I think, and if that's impossible now - we could at least start to lobby to make it possible.
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"Even with documentation, the open source driver is not very fast because there just aren't enough volunteers."

IMHO we don't need more volunteers. We need more full time workers here. Graphics hardware is very hard, low rewards, very low level and very taxing for your health(it is not healthy to be in front of a screen all day doing nothing but solving errors, and seeing new errors appear).

Only students are smart enough and willing to do the necessary work because they learn a lot.

But as experienced students get hired, they are not going to continue contributing as they program enough in their real job. If they do, the time that they dedicate is nothing compared with a pro.
The first one seems to suggest HN may be more like Reddit than I'd imagine some would care to admit.

The second one was quite good. Nice one.
I'm not sure that choices made in youth exclude people from developing skills later in life. So what if less women spend their youth in basements? After college (if you go), it doesn't matter whether you did or not.
Is there a reason the salary ranges are low? Is it for entry level position?
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Yes. They'll even cold-call you at the office.
ah thanks very much, so its a way of being alerted as to whether my callback has been ignored/lost.
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Thank you madhouse, I suppose then it makes sense to learn both.
I am really put off by this new design.

Google continues to strike out with me in the swath of recent redesigns. I have become more turned off and turned away from Google services as a result, and actively seek alternatives to many services I was previously happy with. I readily admit that I am an outlier, and probably no longer part of Google's target audience.

Still, I wonder what level of navel gazing has led Google as a whole to consider some of these redesigns as improvements...though I did hear (rumor) from an acquaintance that many people's bonuses are directly tied to 'integrating google+ and new designs', so maybe that is the reason.
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There really is a lot of well tested and documented functionality in R that would be boring/time-consuming/inefficient to try to reproduce. I'm not exactly in love with the language, R syntax is fiddly, but I am in love with the libraries.
Poll: HN EU readers, should we start lobbying the EU?
In the latest poll [1] we saw that there are a lot of Europeans on HN, and I guess many of them from the EU. I also noticed a comment [2] from davedx from the Netherlands that said "not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs", and started wondering if in the EU we could, and should, start lobbying the EU Parliament and Commission to get a better environment for (especially web, but not only) startups: eg for payment gateways, only a more harmonized system could make them easier to create. To do so, we would also (need to) build bigger networks of entrepreneurs.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3298905
[2] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3300204

So, the question is: Should we start lobbying the EU Parliament and Commission to create a better business environment for startups?
Yes: I'm from the EU and we should start lobbying the EU Parliament and Commission as (wannabe or actual) entrepreneurs
No: I'm from the EU but I don't think that lobbying at the EU level could get any results
No: I'm from the EU but I don't want more EU legislation/action on these matters
No, to be honest, this is what I have to work with on AckWire. Would you like me to edit in more choices?
I am not comparing intellect, just choices.

There is some evidence, though, that men tend to divide up more between the extremes than women do. I'm not sure how much of this is "biology" and how much is socially fostered.

(and if it makes any difference to how people view the observation: I happen to be female).
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I used to get them at the office all the time; if my boss was in the room I would totally milk it. "No, I'm not available for work at the moment... Yes, it is a very rare skillset." Kept him on his toes!
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Do not quit!!! It's all about your comfort zone. Getting out of it is a daunting task. What you feel is not new. You need 1. assume you're going to struggle getting out of your comfort zone, and 2. find small tasks that can help you transition to a new stage.

Just don't quit! I'm happy to chat about it. If you want just shoot me an email.
Ask HN: Ever want to give up on your relatives' tech support?
Why don't you just give up on your relatives' PC and give them an iPad? They will find a way to screw it up, but at least it should be easier to fix than a PC. You don't even have to buy it for them. Just tell them: Get an iPad or just leave me alone. If they ask you, "How?", you know you made the right decision since they are too lazy to look it up on Apple.com. Even if it is missing any functionality, it doesn't matter because they don't even know how to use it on the PC anyway.

The other option would be to buy a 10 yr old orphan and give him to your relatives. Because a 10 yr old can learn on their own... unlike adult relatives: http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
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There are other dimensions to life besides the purely economic. In the social sphere, men are the ones who need to approach and women are the ones with all the options. It's weird that this is not considered, as the point for many (most?) men of earning money is to attract female companionship.
I've already done this after seeing the feedback tool in Google+ a few months back :)

Check out BugMuncher - http://bugmuncher.com - it's had a good response so far and has got a good number of happy users.
Happens in Australia quite a bit too. We use to get near daily calls at my last office from various recruiters asking to speak to anyone in technology pretending to be clients/partners then try to fish them for information on positions and people in the company who they would then follow up on directly.
I was never actually aware of the "market research" definition; this is the first I've heard of it.

At Moz, I've long been looking for a phrase that means "content marketing + white hat SEO + social media + email marketing + conversion rate optimization." Inbound marketing has come to take on that definition, and I like the terminology. Permission marketing always had an association to me with list building (usually email), but never SEO, social, CRO, etc.

If another term/phrase catches on that encompasses all those facets of organic/natural/inbound/white hat/mostly-non-paid web marketing, I'd likely switch to that. In the meantime, it's far easier and more comfortable to go with the prevailing convention.

BTW - Saw your other comment below and am totally flattered. Not sure how I can live up to that, but thank you :-)
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It's fairly common in the UK - I get a few calls a month (largely because of big-ticket keywords on my CV that I've not got a huge amount of desire to work with again).
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"There is also not much stopping you from using PHP, Python, Ruby, or anything else with a REPL as your daily shell"

That's a fascinating idea. Know of anyone who does that?
Wow, what an annoying site header. Otherwise, it's rather intriguing.
I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the rabbit hole. When I went to bed, Papua New Guinea was about nine thousand miles from Brussels.
As others have noted, fee fighters isn't good proxy for international traffic.

I've seen the posts about it but never clicked through because it is irrelevent to me (from Australia)
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I used to work at a company that absolutely loved to do a variation on your first point. When faced with a multiple choice question, the answer would end up being "all of the above," but framed in such a way that "oh, we're merely keeping our options open." When that story comes up for implementation, what do you know but apparently MajorCustomer has heard all about how we're offering support for every computer ever made by human hands and is thrilled! They want to know when they can expect a demo!

Agile can also be a great way to uncover people who think they are "separate but more equal" too, when they decide that the concept of a sprint whose content is mutually agreed upon and doesn't change mid-stream is just a quaint little detail that doesn't apply to Important People.

Maybe I'm just a little bit bitter.
I don't know if this is relavent for HN, but it is definitely the strangest thing I have read in a long time.
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I don't know why exactly I followed these instructions, because I was sure that I had never turned "diagnostics" it on. When I saw the settings I was kind of shocked, because my iPhone 4S (5.0.1) really was running in diagnostics mode all the time.

Probably you should check your settings, too!
But how did you feel about all those strange programs you had to use to get root to install it?

Because when I went through the process I was extremely nervous - even though most of the code is open source, how would you spot a backdoor if it was buried within a line?

The ability to have root from the factory on a device you own should be a consumer's right in the states, just like getting your carrier unlock code.
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Ugh, when I hit something like this I doubt the whole thing. No V8? No JavaScriptCore? And TraceMonkey is SpiderMonkey (for this purpose).
This is highly inaccurate.

You guys are referring to Gresham's Law which is only applicable due to legal tender laws. Without legal tender laws, the "good money" wouldn't be driven out by the "bad money" (i.e. US currency).

Also, the reason the US government went completely off the gold standard in 71 was to increase deficit spending without having to pay our debts in gold or something of real value. The Fed has a policy of steady inflation, only through debt liquidation can we ever expect to pay off the huge amounts we owe. That is, we borrow 10 trillion and inflate 50% over a certain time, now we only owe 5 trillion.

End the legal tender laws, allow alternative commodity-based currencies and end the central planning of interest rates. This is the solution. It has nothing to do with gold (or Bitcoins) being a deflationary currency. It has everything to do with big corrupt government.

edit- I don't want that last sentence to color my whole statement. I'm an Austrian, not a Republican. I worked for Obama last time and will vote for him again. For a better perspective on this, check out (future Fed Chairman!) James Grant's Interest Rate Observer http://www.grantspub.com.
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Do you offer anything over Google's boomerang retargeting?

We've already had decent success with that.
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Source: http://www.socialseo.com/blog/an-experiment-nofollow-links-d...

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We get depressed because of lots of hopes and expectation, the main we are looking is getting to end as fast as possible, without enjoying the process in itself.We are looking for goals ignoring the values and process it takes. I tell you process and value is more important than the end goal. The main function of goal is what you become.

The simplest advice is keep grounded in action. Start small , do small action and build upon the small steps to bigger ladder.

You are feeling depressed because all the while you have said to yourself you are great hacker and when you start something you are not able to complete it, hence the spiral of de-motivation. Focus on action and work, eveything else is secondary.
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I've noticed a lot of penetration of WhatsApp here in the Netherlands. It's quietly exploding.
The advantage of hand-rolled loggers is they are easier, for one person, but more difficult for outsiders to get a grip on (compared to a standard solution, which should be well documented).

The question is - should other people modify the logging code? If it's just a part of your scaffolding, it might not be a huge issue.

It then becomes a trade-off between productivity, and technical debt. Prototypes don't need to be sustainable, they just need to be done. You'll either re-write them, or they will work forever (by some miracle) without maintenance, or most likely end up in the big bit bucket in /dev/null
But where is the money, feature phones or smartphones?
Never underestimate the stupidity of some recruitment companies.

Get a phone call one day, the usual "we have a great opportunity for you"....

Sounds great: it's in the same city I work already, same industry, same sort of work, same...... hang on a minute.

After stringing them along for a while, I finally ask them to compare my name, phone number and location to that of the person who submitted the job spec only an hour earlier.

I only wish I'd seen their face when they realised they were trying to offer me the job I had advertised with them. Especially considering they had grossly inflated the salary expectation.
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I found it interesting that servers used for financial transaction are physically separated from the rest.

Must be interesting programming them.
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Coding in Haskell is not like coding in a more imperative language like Python or Java. Haskell is incredibly terse, and most of the work is done in your mind, trying to figure out exactly how best to declare what you're trying to achieve.

Once the thinking part is complete you can usually express what you're trying to do in less than ten lines.
Switzerland too, as soon as you open a Xing-account. I had to explicitly forbid recruiters calling me.
From his article I imagine it was 400 hours reading documentation and 100 hours coding.

Besides, 2500 lines of Haskell is likely to be far more functional than 2500 lines of PHP.
Exactly my thoughts. There is also Windows Scripting Host missing.
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I always wanted to add a section to the bottom of my CV titled "Technologies I know nothing about" listing everything I can think of, say .NET. Then wait for recruiters calling / e-mailing with messages like "I noticed you have experience working with .NET"...
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