From earl at ruby.org Thu Jan 2 14:46:00 2014 From: earl at ruby.org (Earl Ruby) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:46:00 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com Message-ID: The company I work for is looking for someone to replace me. (I'm moving on to a new systems engineering job at another company.) If anyone is interested in a Senior Perl Programmer position at a small web services company, details are here: http://www.webcdr.com/about/careers We also have an opening for a Senior Linux Sys Admin. ---------------------------- Senior Perl Programmer You will be developing hosted software for the telecom industry using Perl, Linux, Apache, Oracle, and Javascript. You will be part of a devops team responsible for developing new features and managing systems. Required Technical Skills Strong software development skills: requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance. 4-year Computer Science, Math, or related degree, or equivalent experience. 5+ years Perl programming experience. Database skills (Oracle a plus). Web application development skills. Professional Excellent spoken and written English. This position requires direct customer interaction for requirements gathering and application support. Proven ability to document what you do. Highly productive; revenue aware. Ability to accept direction and instruction from management. Ability to track and communicate status of your projects to management on a recurring basis. Ability to help clients via telephone and email. Desired (not required) technical skills These are desired skills. If there are gaps in your knowledge we have no problem teaching you if you want to learn new skills. We like people who like to learn new skills. In-depth understanding of the Perl HTML::Mason module. High-availability systems setup. Telecom/SIP/VoIP knowledge. Nagios configuration. Personal Highly intelligent, innovative problem-solver. Detail oriented with strong follow-through. Ability to learn new concepts quickly. Happy working solo or in a team. Reliable, trustworthy, honest. Sense of humor a must. Benefits As close to BART as you can get (building has its own entrance inside the Montgomery BART station). Medical, dental, vision, paid vacation. Centrally located in San Francisco near restaurants, cafes, etc. We require three professional references from candidates at the preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. If you're interested, e-mail your resume and a cover letter introducing yourself to job-7359 at webcdr.com. -- Earl Ruby http://earlruby.org/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby @earlruby From uri at stemsystems.com Thu Jan 2 14:58:47 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:58:47 -0500 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > We require three professional references from candidates at the > preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background > checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate > security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is working to make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get credit again. > > Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From earl at ruby.org Thu Jan 2 16:35:01 2014 From: earl at ruby.org (Earl Ruby) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:35:01 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an explanation. We're not heartless bastards. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > >> We require three professional references from candidates at the >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. > > > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is working to > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get > credit again. > > >> >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. > > > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) > > uri > > > -- > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > http://PerlHunter.com > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- Earl Ruby http://earlruby.org/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby @earlruby From david at fetter.org Thu Jan 2 17:25:46 2014 From: david at fetter.org (David Fetter) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:25:46 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the person's employer? Cheers, David. On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote: > Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an > explanation. We're not heartless bastards. > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > > > >> We require three professional references from candidates at the > >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background > >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate > >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. > > > > > > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is working to > > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get > > credit again. > > > > > >> > >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. > > > > > > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) > > > > uri > > > > > > -- > > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > > http://PerlHunter.com > > _______________________________________________ > > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > > > -- > Earl Ruby > http://earlruby.org/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby > @earlruby > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate From uri at stemsystems.com Thu Jan 2 19:52:48 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:52:48 -0500 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: <52C63410.3050107@stemsystems.com> On 01/02/2014 07:35 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an > explanation. We're not heartless bastards. then that should be stated in the conditions. but what credit issues would even trigger someone from not hiring a candidate? i can't see it as a useful criterion. i am not even in favor of background checks unless there is some human making a decision and not some fixed corporate rule. a story if you don't mind. i was placing a candidate with a job that does background checks back 7 years. this candidate was flagged for something 6+ years before. he was caught by a cop (in texas) fooling around in his car with a woman (not his wife but that isn't a criminal offense!). he was given a misdemeanor conviction and nothing else. this company wouldn't hire him even with the explanation. if it happened a few months earlier or we had delayed his job application a couple of months, this wouldn't matter. so he lost a possible job because he was caught having sex in a car. i am sure his credit was fine! uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From fred at redhotpenguin.com Fri Jan 3 08:35:14 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 08:35:14 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, David Fetter wrote: > What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the > person's employer? >From what I've heard the reasoning here is that if someone has been employed but still managed to default on credit card or have a few bankruptcies, that might indicate their resource management skills need some help. If you are going to hire someone and expect to have them around for a couple years to get a return on your investment, and credit can partially reflect that. Now if you are hiring someone out of college, and they have a defaulted credit card or student loan payment, that speaks differently than someone who has held steady jobs but neglected to pay their phone bill repeatedly. As always, there are situations unique to each individual. > > Cheers, > David. > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote: >> Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an >> explanation. We're not heartless bastards. >> >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: >> > >> >> We require three professional references from candidates at the >> >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background >> >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate >> >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. >> > >> > >> > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is working to >> > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get >> > credit again. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. >> > >> > >> > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) >> > >> > uri >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter >> > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers >> > http://PerlHunter.com >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list >> > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org >> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm >> >> >> >> -- >> Earl Ruby >> http://earlruby.org/ >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby >> @earlruby >> _______________________________________________ >> SanFrancisco-pm mailing list >> SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > -- > David Fetter http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm From diederich at gmail.com Fri Jan 3 09:31:14 2014 From: diederich at gmail.com (Dana Diederich) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:31:14 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: I suspect PCI certification comes into play as well. 'devops' people hold the keys to the kingdom, and PCI/DSS has specific language about people who have such high-level access having to pass background checks. It's one of those things that seems like a good idea on the surface, but is in reality not such a good thing in most cases. Cheers, -Dana On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, David Fetter wrote: > > What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the > > person's employer? > > From what I've heard the reasoning here is that if someone has been > employed but still managed to default on credit card or have a few > bankruptcies, that might indicate their resource management skills > need some help. If you are going to hire someone and expect to have > them around for a couple years to get a return on your investment, and > credit can partially reflect that. > > Now if you are hiring someone out of college, and they have a > defaulted credit card or student loan payment, that speaks differently > than someone who has held steady jobs but neglected to pay their phone > bill repeatedly. As always, there are situations unique to each > individual. > > > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote: > >> Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an > >> explanation. We're not heartless bastards. > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman > wrote: > >> > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > >> > > >> >> We require three professional references from candidates at the > >> >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background > >> >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate > >> >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. > >> > > >> > > >> > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is > working to > >> > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to > get > >> > credit again. > >> > > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. > >> > > >> > > >> > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) > >> > > >> > uri > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > >> > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > >> > http://PerlHunter.com > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > >> > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > >> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Earl Ruby > >> http://earlruby.org/ > >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby > >> @earlruby > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > >> SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > > > -- > > David Fetter http://fetter.org/ > > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com > > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > > > Remember to vote! > > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > _______________________________________________ > > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uri at stemsystems.com Fri Jan 3 10:02:56 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:02:56 -0500 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: <52C6FB50.2090705@stemsystems.com> On 01/03/2014 12:31 PM, Dana Diederich wrote: > I suspect PCI certification comes into play as well. 'devops' people hold > the keys to the kingdom, and PCI/DSS has specific language about people who > have such high-level access having to pass background checks. > > It's one of those things that seems like a good idea on the surface, but is > in reality not such a good thing in most cases. a background criminal check is one thing and i understand it. a credit check is a very different animal and i don't see how it can make a difference. the worst case i see is someone in massive debt taking a job where he could embezzle money or sell stuff to nasty people. well, that means your internal security is bad anyway. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From diederich at gmail.com Fri Jan 3 10:07:05 2014 From: diederich at gmail.com (Dana Diederich) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:07:05 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: <52C6FB50.2090705@stemsystems.com> References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> <52C6FB50.2090705@stemsystems.com> Message-ID: Totally agree. For reference, here's the relevant PCI DSS (version 2) text: Requirement: 12.7 Screen potential personnel prior to hire to minimize the risk of attacks from internal sources. (Examples of background checks include previous employment history, criminal record, credit history, and reference checks.) Note: For those potential personnel to be hired for certain positions such as store cashiers who only have access to one card number at a time when facilitating a transaction, this requirement is a recommendation only. Testing Procedures: 12.7 Inquire with Human Resource department management and verify that background checks are conducted (within the constraints of local laws) on potential personnel prior to hire who will have access to cardholder data or the cardholder data environment. Cheers, -Dana On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 01/03/2014 12:31 PM, Dana Diederich wrote: > >> I suspect PCI certification comes into play as well. 'devops' people hold >> the keys to the kingdom, and PCI/DSS has specific language about people >> who >> have such high-level access having to pass background checks. >> >> It's one of those things that seems like a good idea on the surface, but >> is >> in reality not such a good thing in most cases. >> > > a background criminal check is one thing and i understand it. a credit > check is a very different animal and i don't see how it can make a > difference. the worst case i see is someone in massive debt taking a job > where he could embezzle money or sell stuff to nasty people. well, that > means your internal security is bad anyway. > > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > http://PerlHunter.com > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From earl at ruby.org Fri Jan 3 10:30:54 2014 From: earl at ruby.org (Earl Ruby) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:30:54 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: What Fred said. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, David Fetter wrote: >> What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the >> person's employer? > > From what I've heard the reasoning here is that if someone has been > employed but still managed to default on credit card or have a few > bankruptcies, that might indicate their resource management skills > need some help. If you are going to hire someone and expect to have > them around for a couple years to get a return on your investment, and > credit can partially reflect that. > > Now if you are hiring someone out of college, and they have a > defaulted credit card or student loan payment, that speaks differently > than someone who has held steady jobs but neglected to pay their phone > bill repeatedly. As always, there are situations unique to each > individual. > > >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote: >>> Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an >>> explanation. We're not heartless bastards. >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >>> > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: >>> > >>> >> We require three professional references from candidates at the >>> >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background >>> >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate >>> >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. >>> > >>> > >>> > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is working to >>> > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get >>> > credit again. >>> > >>> > >>> >> >>> >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. >>> > >>> > >>> > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) >>> > >>> > uri >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter >>> > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers >>> > http://PerlHunter.com >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list >>> > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org >>> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Earl Ruby >>> http://earlruby.org/ >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby >>> @earlruby >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SanFrancisco-pm mailing list >>> SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org >>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm >> >> -- >> David Fetter http://fetter.org/ >> Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter >> Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com >> iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics >> >> Remember to vote! >> Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate >> _______________________________________________ >> SanFrancisco-pm mailing list >> SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm -- Earl Ruby http://earlruby.org/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby @earlruby From doomvox at gmail.com Sun Jan 5 14:14:12 2014 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 14:14:12 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: A friend of mine-- with weak credit-- once commented with some annoyance that a place had pulled a credit report on him and then hired him anyway. My thought was they might like programmers with bad credit because they're more likely to stick around longer. Really, I think things like this are essentially nonsense. Companies like to do things like this because it makes them feel like they're being diligent, but really they're making hiring decisions on first impressions, or, if you're lucky, a half-hour of technical interviews. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, David Fetter wrote: > What is it about bad credit that might be any of your business as the > person's employer? > > Cheers, > David. > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:35:01PM -0800, Earl Ruby wrote: > > Bad credit is not an instant disqualification, it does require an > > explanation. We're not heartless bastards. > > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > > > On 01/02/2014 05:46 PM, Earl Ruby wrote: > > > > > >> We require three professional references from candidates at the > > >> preliminary interview. We perform credit and criminal background > > >> checks on candidates after the second interview per our corporate > > >> security policy. No phone calls or visits without prior invitation. > > > > > > > > > doing credit checks on candidates is nasty. elizabeth warren is > working to > > > make that illegal. someone could have bad credit and needs a job to get > > > credit again. > > > > > > > > >> > > >> Absolutely no agents or third party inquiries. > > > > > > > > > of course i object to that clause but i can't make it illegal! :) > > > > > > uri > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter > > > The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers > > > http://PerlHunter.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > > > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > > > > > > > -- > > Earl Ruby > > http://earlruby.org/ > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/earlruby > > @earlruby > > _______________________________________________ > > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > -- > David Fetter http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter at gmail.com > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > _______________________________________________ > SanFrancisco-pm mailing list > SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to doom+unsubscribe at kzsu.stanford.edu. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uri at stemsystems.com Sun Jan 5 15:27:22 2014 From: uri at stemsystems.com (Uri Guttman) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:27:22 -0500 Subject: [sf-perl] [jobs] Job opening for Senior Perl Programmer at WebCDR.com In-Reply-To: References: <52C5EF27.3090007@stemsystems.com> <20140103012546.GB20311@fetter.org> Message-ID: <52C9EA5A.7090603@stemsystems.com> On 01/05/2014 05:14 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote: > A friend of mine-- with weak credit-- once commented with some annoyance > that a place had pulled a credit report on him and then hired him anyway. > My thought was they might like programmers with bad credit because they're > more likely to stick around longer. > > Really, I think things like this are essentially nonsense. Companies like > to do things like this because it makes them feel like they're being > diligent, but really they're making hiring decisions on first impressions, > or, if you're lucky, a half-hour of technical interviews. i get the sense of power for sure and i have seen it too. jump through the hoops, you lowly candidate! as for the screening, it varies a ton. some do way too much IMO and lose out on quality candidates (3 sets of online tests??). few ask for code and review it but the ones that do are usually more on top of things. my major filter is code review and going over it with the candidate. how they react to my feedback, how they discuss their coding decisions, etc. tells me tons about how they think and solve problems. my clients tend to like my candidates since they know i do a deep and quality screening and don't shotgun resumes to them. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com From fred at redhotpenguin.com Tue Jan 7 10:15:53 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:15:53 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] 5.18.2 is now GA Message-ID: Perl 5.18.2 is now generally available: From fred at redhotpenguin.com Tue Jan 7 10:16:07 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:16:07 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] 5.18.2 is now GA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And the link! http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/01/msg211224.html On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: > Perl 5.18.2 is now generally available: From fred at redhotpenguin.com Fri Jan 10 10:24:00 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:24:00 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] How to get around the current PAUSE outage Message-ID: Pause has been down for about two days (hey, github went down also). 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Thanks for your patience, all. :-) --V From fred at redhotpenguin.com Wed Jan 22 11:26:50 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:26:50 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] Blogs.perl.org hacked Message-ID: Seems that blogs.perl.org was hacked last night. Passwords are salted and encrypted, but if you use blogs.perl.org you may want to change your password if it is used in other places. http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/blogs-perl-org/ From sfpm at vmbrasseur.com Wed Jan 22 11:30:49 2014 From: sfpm at vmbrasseur.com (VM Brasseur) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:30:49 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] Blogs.perl.org hacked In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52E01C69.4080907@vmbrasseur.com> On 01/22/2014, 11:26 , Fred Moyer wrote: > Seems that blogs.perl.org was hacked last night. > > http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/blogs-perl-org/ Oh, the irony of it being announced on that URL? From fred at redhotpenguin.com Fri Jan 24 22:06:24 2014 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:06:24 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] San Francisco Perl Mongers Meetup hits 500 members Message-ID: Shout out to VM! Great work, thanks to everyone here! VM Brasseur (@vmbrasseur) tweeted at 9:16 PM on Fri, Jan 24, 2014: Boom, there it is. @sfperlmongers just hit 500 members. :-) #perl http://t.co/kVnXGCBM9r (https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur/status/426946705125150720) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: