Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John J. Lee wrote:
[...]
> > but I'm sure you appreciate the point -- if you're hiring employees,
> > being fairly risk-averse is probably quite rational.
>
> So when we really mean business, you're back to static typing?
I'm not wedded to dynamic typ
Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John J. Lee wrote this on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:16:13 +. My reply is
> below.
>
> > I sympathise but conventional wisdom (which surely has a lot of
> > truth in it) is that employers are not faced with the problem of
> > minimising false negatives (fai
John J. Lee wrote this on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:16:13 +. My reply is
below.
> I sympathise but conventional wisdom (which surely has a lot of
> truth in it) is that employers are not faced with the problem of
> minimising false negatives (failing to hire when they should have
> hired). They ar
John J. Lee wrote:
> You may not realise it if you haven't been applying for work since you
> did that, but I'm sure you've done a lot for your "employability" (I
> hate that word, it implies that it's a one-sided business, clearly
> false) by working as a freelancer.
Since I'm freelancing my lev
> > Michael Bentley wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it is different where you live, but here you can put on your
> > resume relevant things that aren't paying jobs. Otherwise nobody
> > would ever get their first job, right?
>
> Sure you can. But around here if one has been unemployed for a while
> it's near
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > high-profile hiring fests like pycon.
> What! I resent that remark. PyCon was started precisely because I felt
> a low-cost event would better encourage community involvement. If
> PyCon is beyond your means that you clearly aren't looking to be hired
>
Anton Vredegoor wrote:
[...] I mean, not everyone is able to visit expensive
> high-profile hiring fests like pycon.
What! I resent that remark. PyCon was started precisely because I felt a
low-cost event would better encourage community involvement. If PyCon is
beyond your means that you clearl
On Mar 22, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Anton Vredegoor wrote:
> So HRM people keep asking questions like 'But
> what have you been doing?' In the end I just started my own
> company, and
> while I'm not always employed as a freelancer I can at least now
> say I'm
> running my own business.
Yeah, I've
On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Anton Vredegoor wrote:
> Agreed. There's now probably even room on the job market for those who
> don't belong to the select elite of early adopters. We might even root
> out the professionalist attitude and address the problem of tying
> people
> to their resumes.
Michael Bentley wrote:
> Perhaps it is different where you live, but here you can put on your
> resume relevant things that aren't paying jobs. Otherwise nobody
> would ever get their first job, right?
Sure you can. But around here if one has been unemployed for a while
it's nearly impossib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think the steady increase in the number of active listings over the
> past couple years bodes well for the job prospects of Python
> programmers as a whole. There are currently 99 job postings on the
> job board dating back to mid-December. A year ago there were a
> "Anton" == Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anton> Steve Holden wrote:
>> Feel better now?
Anton> Yes! But *now* I'm afraid it will have negative consequences for
Anton> my future employability. However if it will lead to adjusting the
Anton> kind of submissio
Anton Vredegoor wrote:
> Steven D. Arnold wrote:
>
[...]
> /rant
>
Feel better now?
regards
Steve
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Steve Holden wrote:
>> /rant
>>
> Feel better now?
Yes! But *now* I'm afraid it will have negative consequences for my
future employability. However if it will lead to adjusting the kind of
submissions at http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
it was probably worth it.
A.
'thanks for asking'
-
Steven D. Arnold wrote:
> Neosynapse is seeking a senior software developer located in or
Subtract ten points from your credibility for writing senior here.
> willing to relocate to the Northern VA area to join a project
> building one of the largest grid computing data platforms in the
>
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