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wayn3 commented on Ask HN: How to solve remote engineers appearing lazy to other departments?    · Posted by u/_lx4l
wayn3 · 6 years ago
We as a community take a strong stance on the issue and categorically decline jobs that are not fully remote.

The recruiters I work with know that I don't entertain non-remote work at any salary.

Do the same. Join the revolution. Succeed.

wayn3 commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
opencorporates · 6 years ago
OpenCorporates | Scrapers / bot writers | London, UK (Remote) | Full-time - part-time considered

OpenCorporates is growing, and looking for more great bot and scraper coders – to help fulfill its mission to open up the world's official public information on companies.

We write, run and maintain hundreds of scrapers and bots – bots that integrate with APIs, that download open data dumps. Bots that make sense of messy data and put it into our standardised schema, working with our expert Data Analysts.

We're particularly looking for highly talented bot writers who both understand how to extract data from legacy, messy or plain broken public websites, AND who want to work to help achieve our critical public-benefit mission.

What you'll be doing:

- Support & expand our data pipeline.

You'll write bots to source publicly available data (scraping websites, consuming data published via APIs or CSV, or extracting data from PDFs) in order to create new data feeds, and also help solve problems with our existing feeds

- Maintain high data quality.

You'll compare datasets to their source to verify that the information is complete and error-free. You'll also suggest ways to make our processes more efficient.

Above all we are looking for smart people who we think will fit in well.

This is a full-time position, either in Shoreditch, London, UK, or remote, although we would consider part-time positions for the right applicant. Unfortunately we are unable to offer visa/relocation help for now. Strictly no recruitment agencies.

Salary range: £38k-£55k

wayn3 · 6 years ago
Hey, I have 10 years of experience writing bots/getting information from the internet and I'm interested in this role. Care to discuss this 1on1? I'm not going to submit a resume somewhere that will never be looked at.

I'm the right person for this.

wayn3 commented on Ask HN: Knowing what you know now, would you still invest in Bitcoin?    · Posted by u/mattbgates
wayn3 · 8 years ago
Would you consider buying something for less than 10 cents that is now worth 8k? Maybe. Not really sure tho.
wayn3 commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
ryandrake · 8 years ago
Can you describe your idea of someone who is a regular employee but has a "Founder Mentality?"
wayn3 · 8 years ago
someone who has all the responsibility of a founder with all the potential upside of barely becoming a millionaire if it ever turns into a unicorn.

and you obviously work founder hours for employee compensation.

wayn3 commented on People Who Hear Voices Could Be on to Something   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/pmcpinto
ltwdm · 8 years ago
How do you imagine the content the newsreader is supposed to read? Isn't it hard to produce random coherent content in your mind?
wayn3 · 8 years ago
no. the mind, when at ease - when you truly do not try to think a particular thing - will do its own thing. just like when you're dreaming.

deep neural networks have no trouble producing random but coherent content, either.

wayn3 commented on Ask HN: What tech companies do you invest in?    · Posted by u/bvod
wayn3 · 8 years ago
I invest in real estate.
wayn3 commented on Accelerated interviews for fired employees   layoff-aid.com/... · Posted by u/nabraham
DrScump · 8 years ago
Unless a company is shutting down, the first to be laid off are (or are perceived to be by upper management) "poor performers".
wayn3 · 8 years ago
the first to be laid off usually are local maxima - senior engineers who pull way more than their own weight but appear "expensive" due to seniority.

the first round of layoffs so often cripples a company because they make cuts on the wrong end of the performance spectrum.

wayn3 commented on How to Interview Engineers   blog.triplebyte.com/how-t... · Posted by u/FabioFleitas
roflc0ptic · 8 years ago
>> "Thinking aloud" ... is a specific metacognitive skill

Is there evidence for this claim? I'm inclined to believe it but that's experiential. It's also something I've never had to work to acquire, but that could be a cultural thing (my family and friends talk a lot about thinking) or a personal history thing (I have a minor learning disability, and it has forced me to develop strong, conscious meta-cognition).

It's not a given, tho, that being able to talk about thinking is distinct from being able to think and being able to talk.

wayn3 · 8 years ago
the idea to "think aloud" is downright silly.

people who "talk to themselves" are labelled idiots. mental dialogue is supposed to be mental.

call it social conditioning if you will. spelling out your thoughts for someone else to hear them just so they can take note of them for evaluation is the polar opposite of normal human interaction.

wayn3 commented on How to Interview Engineers   blog.triplebyte.com/how-t... · Posted by u/FabioFleitas
sqeaky · 8 years ago
You say we need to figure a few basic things out, how do we do if a person has basic confidence if not by asking them questions.

Please keep in mind that resumes nor any other data from the candidate can be trusted, because a huge amount of candidates lie or are mistaken about their own skill. I once interviewed a candidate who claimed to have 10 years of SQL experience but couldn't write a query on the order of "select * from table_name". Fully half of all people I have interviewed failed to convince me they could write anything more complex than "Hello World".

I am not advocating hours and hours of needless hoops, but a candidate for just a about any programming job should be able to Write a working fizzbuzz implementation. Questions on the order of fizzbuzz can and do eliminate a huge number of possible candidates.

wayn3 · 8 years ago
maybe instead of doing this hoopadoop all the time, its time to accept that fulltime employment is a concept that made sense when most workers were doing assembly line things.

hire specialized contractors to do the things you need done.

ive never been asked stupid fizzbuzz but have so far not been able to sufficiently fail at a job. weird.

wayn3 commented on Accelerated interviews for fired employees   layoff-aid.com/... · Posted by u/nabraham
redmattred · 8 years ago
Being fired is usually the result of poor performance from the employee or violating company policies.

Being laid off happens when the company is performing poorly and isn't necessarily any fault of the individual employees.

wayn3 · 8 years ago
and whats the difference? how can you tell layoffs and firings apart?

u/wayn3

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