Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-24 Thread John J. Lee
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-24 Thread John J. Lee
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Rhode
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread John J. Lee
> > 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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Rubin
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 >

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Holden
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Bentley
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Bentley
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.

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread skip
> "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

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Holden
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > Steven D. Arnold wrote: > [...] > /rant > Feel better now? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://hol

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
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' -

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
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 >

[JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-21 Thread Steven D. Arnold
Neosynapse is seeking a senior software developer located in or willing to relocate to the Northern VA area to join a project building one of the largest grid computing data platforms in the world. Skill and experience required for this engagement include: * at least 7 years experience in p