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90 pointsbluehat34 comments

I live near here and volunteer to let awesome developers crash on my couches if it helps you get across the country to do this.

That's so thoughtful of you when you could easily put your place at Airbnb! Have an upboat :p

How can I contact you?

the main contact info on the hacker fair website will work, and as we get more dojo volunteers to take surfers it will be a scaling solution.

I have always thought something like this would be very interesting, I hope this catches on. I love the Hacker Dojo and wish I was in the Bay often enough to be a member.

If this is a success, do you have plans for the same event in NYC? I would love to come, but I think if it's in CA, then most companies would be in CA also..

We are definitely thinking about that. Already had interest from Microsoft to do one in NYC actually, which means we should have interest from other companies quickly as well.

It was a success last time it was done. Maybe you can convince NYC Resistor to host their own.

This is awesome. My only concern is that I'd end up interviewing with the same companies in the same format anyway. If that is the case, I'd just be making it easier for the hiring side but not gaining myself any advantage.

I suppose people who don't interview well (like me) would benefit from some facetime.

This should really help with "getting in the door" without relying on a resume. Also builds cred. before the interview.

Besides those, getting in front of 100 companies at once should boost your valuation :)

Looks awesome! Though by my calculations, the counter will get to 0 days 0 hrs 0 min 0 sec just before midnight EDT on July 16, which is a full 14 hours before the event (but the jquery countdown they're using is probably using the browser's regional time).

Looks like it's set to 11PM not 11AM - at least, I'm in PDT and it's counting down to 11PM for me.

Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)

Well I definitely know how that is. Looks great, overall.

Thank you! Took a lot of nit-picking and swearing at the computer, but glad it paid off.

Go figure, my noprocrast settings went off 3 min after going live...

How often are they doing this? 29 days is a little short notice for me to make it...am I going to have to wait a year for it to come around again?

Sorry about the short notice.

We're planning on holding these more often. It may be Hacker Dojo, it may be a spinoff. I'm thinking September though for the next one, depending on how this goes.

This is why I wish I lived in the states :(

Come anyway! Those big companies (and maybe some smaller ones too) can do visas!

bluehat (also on thread) built a network of couches to put awesome programmers up for the event - you should come!

The valley will blow your mind.

I do hope that by "recruiters" they mean actual hiring managers and not actual technical recruiters. :-/

Why not? I think it's a great idea, and if technical recruiters "get it" enough so they come to this event, I would actually want to work with them. I bet those won't be the type of recruiters who ask "Well, I see that you have 10 years of JavaScript and PHP on your resume, but do you have HTML?"

We are encouraging companies to bring their engineers and recruiters, so that you can talk to someone who knows what you're saying and talk to someone who can actually continue the hiring process.

When I was there last time, all of them were hiring managers and not recruiters. I ended up with 6 companies trying to recruit me, 3 of them were from startups I had never heard of. It was kind of cool seeing companies fight over you, since usually it's the other way around.

Did the companies that saw you at the fair invite you for a more formal interview process, or did they make their minds up there?

What we're trying to do is have one person with the technical chops to figure out if candidates are good and one person with the power to move the candidate's file along in the hiring process. Can you think of an appropriate noun which represents the second group of people? I don't know what the proper parent class of that field is titled.

Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style".

I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png

And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png

You can clearly see what I was talking about.

Using Chrome 12 on Windows and it looks exactly like the Mac screenshot for me.

Sorry, It looked pretty good on my windows machine - though totally broken on IE.

I'm not a coder or designer, used Themeforrest and a lot of sweat to get the site working. What are your suggestions for fixing the fonts? (dumbed down for a mech. engineer)

this is a great idea, would be interesting to just be there and watch

Sweet!

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