Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:21:59 +0100, Jérôme Étévé jerome.et...@gmail.com wrote: Probably a book about trolling on London.pm would be most entertaining. Perhaps, Perl off the Hook: trolling for the future of a moribund language? -r
Re: Programming Heresy
On Friday, March 30, 2012 at 06:40:12 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:29:46AM +0100, Will Crawford wrote: On 30 March 2012 11:23, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: Get yourself a decent man shed with some decent windows that you can open. What kind of colour is man? Pick one: Whatever colour you want it to be. The colour it was when it came from the shop. The colour of all this left-over paint I had lying around. Pink. Because I felt like it. ^^ That is, of course, assuming you have a license. Back when I was doing consulting (remote), I a couple of monitors, a keyboard, and a laptop on my back porch. It was great until one day when the people behind me got a pool and started blasting country music all day. Eventually I ended up back in the house with a clutch of rack mount servers providing, um, white noise. I highly recommend working outside, it clears the mind and helps the code flow*. -r * appropriate libations notwithstanding :-)
Re: lovefilm - spamming f-tards or decent employer?
On Friday, December 23, 2011 at 10:53:40 AM, Sue Spence wrote: So far it's just one person. I believe you mentioned that you were One person, who accused them of being 'spamming f-tards'. I have not seen any of this spam myself. I would like to see the headers, and I am still waiting for answers to my question about whether the SPF/DKIM/Domain Keys stuff checked out. looking for a job in London, but the topic drift you're attempting to commit here is not cool. Nope, I am *not* looking for a job in London, nor am I attempting to drift the conversation in the way you are implying. See above. Perhaps your impression is colored by earlier events. I intended nothing more than: WRT the question posed in the subject, 1) did company *really* say that about a hired third party? And 2) *IF* so, it is strongly indicative of company not being a decent employer because Or, more plainly yet, to answer the question, can 'spamming f-tards' be 'decent employer[s]'? Again, the origin of the spam is still in question -r
Re: lovefilm - spamming f-tards or decent employer?
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 04:17:00 AM, Jacqui Caren wrote: Anyone else getting large volumes of UBE from lovefilm with the excuse None here. Do you know if it were an authorized mailing? that it comes from a thirdy party so please dont blame us for the large volume of abusive and desperate crap. If LOVEFiLM actually used the third party excuse for a company that they hired, it would be (for me) a red flag when evaluating them as a potential employer. That line makes it sound like either a) the company does not have the leadership to prevent or stop a third party from acting unethically on its behalf, or b) that the company is intentionally using a third party to conduct business in unethical manner on its behalf. Contrast that to something like: We take UBE very seriously, and we don't allow our third party vendors to use UBE to market our products. We will investigate this matter. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. etc. [bonus points for followup] I know business is hard, but spamming via third parties and hitting spamtraps and large numbers of role based business acocunts does not impress very many and certains gets your business added to traps. That sounds strange. Is it possible that someone is trying to take advantage of a partner/referral program? Are SPF/DKIM/Domain Keys indicative of the mailing being authorized by LOVEFiLM? I'd be interested in looking at the headers (offlist) to see what third party(s) is(are) being used. Lovefilm is now on my shitlist for the next year. I like that you included a time frame :) -r
Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness
On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 08:16:04 PM, Toby Wintermute wrote: Hi, Hi The 404 errors are reported on the distant webserver as well, for URLs that are definitely not 404. (as the identical URL is being requested successfully many times in the same period). The server should know why it is giving 404s. If it does not wish to share with you... The only reason I don't think this is a problem with the network or webserver is that the problems don't show up if I use fork() instead of threads. (On otherwise identical code; and the same overall throughput rates are reached. However the fork() version is just for that bit of code for testing this; it misses some functionality.) Just a small change performance characteristics can make a big difference when you are pushing things. I recently had a case where I optimized the network writes of a program and it caused some major confusion at the firewall(statefull). The driver program had one core pegged, so there was no change in average throughput. It's also being a pain to try and replicate the threaded issue with a standalone server away from our code though, which isn't a good sign. If you can, mirror a port on your switch and do a packet capture. That should give you exactly what is going over the wire, and you don't have to trust either system to tell you the truth. -r
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Friday, December 09, 2011 at 02:23:22 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: Indeed. My impression of NaP was also that they're very good. Given that I know people there and have only heard good things (you know a company is good when people don't want to leave). So if you're a) good, and b) lucky and c) NaP understands the recruiter might have screwed you both, talk to them directly. I emailed both NaP and Eliassen. Eliassen called me to confirm my understanding. I have not heard anything from NaP. I have contact information for Eliassen. Email me off list if you would like it. My understanding is that NAP had a very hard time finding people in the US---I know I passed their posts by before. I had serious concerns after talking to them, and the recruiter kept me from jumping 3 or 4 times during the process explaining, They don't understand the US market. I estimate that commission for my position alone would have probably be around 54K, but I think it was probably worth it from what I saw of NAP recruitment. At least here in the US, bypassing recruiters is the much preferred method. I don't know why they're still so heavily relied on in the UK. I suspect that is because it adds about 30% to the cost of hiring someone; however, if you can't attract people -r
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Friday, December 09, 2011 at 02:10:22 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote: On 9 December 2011 06:54, Rudolf Lippan rlip...@remotelinux.com wrote: On Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 11:23:35 PM, Kieren Diment wrote: I suspect this is a symptom of the GFC rather than anything more sinister. I'm sorry you and your not-to-be colleagues appear to be friendly fire in this circumstance. I don't know if I buy that: 6 December 2011: ...Net-a-porte[sic] has decided not to build a team here in the US. Apparently it's half the cost for them to build a team in the UK vs. here in the US... 7 December 2011: http://jobs.perl.org/job/14442 Posted: December 7, 2011 Company name: Net-a-porter Internal ID:Junior Perl Developer - New Jersey Location: New York, NY, USA Your recruitment agent could well be telling porky pies NaP, are a Perhaps, but she seemed pretty willing to back it up... pretty reputable outfit - anything you didnt hear directly from them I'd take with a pinch of salt, and I'd never turn down another offer without a written offer or signed contract, certainly not on the word of a recruiter. I think it is all about fit. NaP looked to be a perfect fit in terms in terms of community and environment for me, so I think it was worth the risk, but I did not expect a reputable company to pull something like this... Could be worth re-applying directly to that ad, if you haven't just marked your own card by your posts about them to perl lists Are you serious? -r
Beware: NET-A-PORTER
Good morning, Perl Mongers, This is a followup to my post to the Perl jobs-discuss mailing list. Terrence picked it up here: http://livingcosmos.posterous.com/beware-of-net-a-porter-perl-jobs and the original can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jobs-discuss@perl.org/msg01469.html About six weeks ago, I was contacted by a recruiter and asked if I was interested in a team lead position in New Jersey, and so begins my story. I was wanting to get back into the community after a limiting contract, but this wasn't really the sort of splash I hoped to make. I've never been moved to do something like this in the 10+ years I've been programming professionally. I've experienced some less than honest recruiting techniques and companies that had no issue jerking people around, but I was made aware this morning that there were at least two other Perl programmers affected, including junior candidates that probably had more hanging on this than I did. I sent the following list of events to both NET-A-PORTER and the recruiting agency 7 Dec. Earlier today (8 Dec.), the recruiter called me and confirmed this, point by point. NET-A-PORTER has, as of yet, not replied. 1) That NET-A-PORTER was fully aware of the contract rate during the interview process. 2) That NET-A-PORTER selected me to lead their US team and I was asked to wait for final sign off. 3) That NET-A-PORTER was aware that I let another opportunity go based on my understanding that my employment was pending a 'final signature'. 4) That as a condition of final sign off NET-A-PORTER asked that, at the end of the 6 month contract period, I would be willing to accept $30K less than the original budgeted salary with the proviso that the salary would be open to renegotiation based on the market conditions at that time. Furthermore that I agreed to this. 5) That NET-A-PORTER decided to withdraw the position at this point and no longer build out a US-based Perl development team. The reason given is that it would cost 1/2 as much to build out a team in the UK. For a company that espouses their programming culture and community support, I can't understand how they could think this was even remotely acceptable. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me. The recruiter gave permission to share contact information with any interested parties regarding this situation. I know I'm not in the UK but, short of trying for slashdot, I thought this was the most appropriate venue for informing those who should be most aware of their actions. -r
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 11:23:35 PM, Kieren Diment wrote: I suspect this is a symptom of the GFC rather than anything more sinister. I'm sorry you and your not-to-be colleagues appear to be friendly fire in this circumstance. I don't know if I buy that: 6 December 2011: ...Net-a-porte[sic] has decided not to build a team here in the US. Apparently it's half the cost for them to build a team in the UK vs. here in the US... 7 December 2011: http://jobs.perl.org/job/14442 Posted: December 7, 2011 Company name: Net-a-porter Internal ID:Junior Perl Developer - New Jersey Location: New York, NY, USA -r
