Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than a quarter of hires. That’s more than the number hired via online job boards, even though those job hunters accounted for 60% of applications and 40% of interviews.
Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in bark bags
Tech & Work WorldQuick HitsPuppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments - a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone.
Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile - another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out my cheesy DevOps market timing if you like that kind of thing.
Under Development Podcast #12: Talk to your children about notifications - our all too infrequent podcast on development has a new episode out.
Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments - a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone.
Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile - another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out my cheesy DevOps market timing if you like that kind of thing.
They dubbed it Slack and released it in August 2013. Since then, Slack has grown swiftly: more than 300,000 people use it each day, and the company has more than 73,000 paid users. The company has also raised a lot of venture capital funding—about $163 million since the company switched its focus to Slack.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532606/three-questions-with-slacks-ceo/
Jimminy-fuck-crickets that’s a of lot of cash to raise. People do talk about Slack a lot. Any of you knuckleheads out there use it?
[H]ighway billboards have returned as a coveted status symbol for tech’s directionless marketing departments
So that’s what billboards are for!
http://valleywag.gawker.com/billboards-of-semi-nude-brogrammers-are-lining-silicon-1660933261
To me this almost the image of…a dog running ahead of the fire.
And, as a bonus: “my contention is that the Mac in the 90s sucked!”
Exponent: 024: A Celebratory Goblet of Champagne http://overca.st/Bihkhrizk
Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto
Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting.
At DockerCon EU - turns out I’ll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you’re there, it’d be fun to meetup. I’ll have been traveling all of that week, so you can see my brain turned to mush!
Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto
Follow-upI mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting.
At DockerCon EU - turns out I'll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you're there, it'd be fun to meetup. I'll have been traveling all of that week, so you can see my brain turned to mush!
Tech & Work WorldQuick HitsNetcraft: DigitalOcean Now Third-Largest Cloud - measurements like these are always weird, but the point is still there: DigitalOcean is on mega-growth, them developers like it.
Stefanovic, who co-presents Channel Nine’s Today show with Lisa Wilkinson, has been wearing the same blue suit – day in, day out, except for a few trips to the dry cleaner - to make a point about the ways in which his female colleagues are judged. “No one has noticed,” he said. “No one gives a shit.”
Male TV presenter wears same suit for a year – does anyone notice?
Everything in cloud competes with everything else
http://www.slideshare.net/joshuamckenty/but-what-about-docker