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I did grab a few screens and contacted the only available "support" link I could find easily on their site, but after a few weeks with no response I eventually deleted the files.

Totally unrelated, but I am not surprised. I once logged into my Citi credit card account and was granted access to another user's account. Certain places were off limits but I was able to view a lot of details. Pretty scary! I never heard back after reporting the issue.

A lot of kids that show promise in something outside of school get a free pass on homework. I wonder what would have happened if MJ was too buried under homework to get in any practice time.

Thanks for this great idea. I will be reaching out to the local community college today and may follow up with the local high school as well.

Thanks for the response. To be honest I am fairly new on the hiring side of things and also relatively new to this specific part of the area. I don't have a solid response to most of your questions. Tech salaries seem to be all over the place. I would say given our location, job requirements, and company culture the salary range we offer is very competitive. That hasn't been an issue with anyone we've talked with yet. Being so close to SV does confuse things sometimes though.

I'm not sure I fully understand the difference between a job and a genuine opportunity. With a small team every member has a pretty large say in how things are done so everyone has the potential to really make a difference. It's definitely more than just getting work put in front of you. On the money side this is a mature bootstrapped company, so someone looking to gamble on stock options probably wouldn't be interested.

The area is generally pretty desirable. Beautiful surroundings, nice weather, lots of options for schools, interesting history, lots of great local food, relatively decent music scene, close to hiking, biking, skiing, rivers, and Tahoe. This is actually an area where a lot of tech people retire or semi-retire and open a satellite office. There's a lot of cool tech history with the Atari 2600 and a lot of broadcast video equipment being invented here. Not nearly as much web or software history though.

I've had a lot of this on my mind but I don't know I've done a very good job of communicating in any of our listings. We may try remote again, but will probably give local a little longer before we go that route. Thanks again, clearly this has me thinking and I'm hoping it will improve our future listings.

Thanks for the reply! We've done just this with our most recent hire. He had a lot of relevant experience but with a totally different tech stack. In the end we decided we'd rather have someone who has been there and done that with different tools than someone who has less overall experience but more comfort with our current setup. So far it looks like it has been a good decision!

We're in Nevada County building SAAS web and mobile apps. How about you?

Thanks very much for the insight. This is definitely the approach we've taken up until now. Average age in our group is right around 40 and we're all family people who love the area and lifestyle it affords. The age thing isn't really the issue, just the number of applicants with relevant skills applying. I know they are around, maybe just a little more entrenched in their current roles. It is a lot of older people around, and I think because of that a lot of them (us) are already in a long term role or have moved on to consulting/contracting.

Sent! Thanks very much!

It was (and still is) fairly quiet, but there were also Litton Engineering Group [1] and The Grass Valley Group [2] in the area. There are still a surprising number of engineers in the area due to the large number of high-end and broadcast video companies still in business. I think AJA is the biggest but there is also Sierra Video and Renegade Labs. Grass Valley is still here as well but it has changed hands a few times over the past few decades.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Litton,_Sr.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Valley_%28company%29

Another cool article about Cyan and the Stella/2600: http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/Atari_ca...