timjahn

I'm assuming you're not from the United States?

Wow, that's amazing. Was $4.17 in Chicago when I filled up a few days ago.

The default gas price is shown as $3.40/gallon. Where are you getting gas that cheap??

Totally off topic: On that page, in the image next to "Compose and Snooze", did you mean to have "Invalid Date" in the yellow box?

Pic: https://www.streak.com/images/snooze/snoozeCompose.png

I use HN Watcher for HN (http://HNwatcher.com).

Completely agree.

"Does it matter if person folding your laundry got into a drunken fight when they were 19? Not really."

No. It doesn't.

Does it matter if a person with a history of DUIs (or even ONE) drives me for Lyft? Yes.

Does it matter if a person with a history of armed robbery or home invasion delivers groceries to my house for Instacart? Yes.

Would you ever want a stranger driving you home who wasn't background checked in some way?

I wouldn't.

Thanks for the matchist shoutout Dan!

I've long had the idea for a web series called "What Do You Do?" that would be similar to this. Each episode would feature the host doing the job/becoming the person of a new occupation (like Dirty Jobs but not just for dirty jobs).

Personally, I'm fascinated by this. I would love to experience the jobs of others, just to learn about them and their story.

Reminds me of Chicago. :)

That's my point. They're not spending any more time on anything. They'll just continue spamming down the list and eventually they'll hit you again.

"This is one reason why I always reply with a short form letter: "Thanks for reaching out, I'm happy where I am, etc" so they have to take the time to filter me out as someone who isn't interested."

But see, in my experience, they DON'T filter you out in any way. They just keep spamming you.

Ugh. I know people say there are good recruiters out there (somewhere), but stories like this are all I ever seem to hear, and are a large part of the inspiration behind creating matchist (http://matchist.com).

I understand technical/creative recruiting is generally a "spray and see what sticks" industry, but it seems things very rarely sticks. Is there really a good enough ROI on these seemingly ineffective techniques that justifies recruiters' continued use of them?

That said, this is a genius idea for dealing with it. I truly hope the recruiters get it, but sadly, I honestly don't think they're capable of understanding how pointless their actions are.

"Just hike a few miles out to a campsite, hang out, read, cook, play around, and then head home the next evening. My kids are young (7 and 12), and I think it does them a lot of good to be able to cover some distance and pack things in and out on their own."

That's great. There's nothing like getting out in the outdoors, camping, and just living a little bit. No real "purpose" other than to experience the nature around you. Kudos to you.

I think there's something to an idea like this. So much time right now is wasted grocery shopping. I mentioned this in a comment a while back about Instacart:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039418

You're spot on. Sports are the single thing that there really is no easy way to watch without traditional cable/satellite.

Once they finally come around, it will be much easier to convince people to cut the cord.

Have you used the latest Roku (Roku 3)? The interface is extremely non-tech-consumer friendly.

I was thinking this is their first experiment into offering content outside their own platform. While the content isn't spectacular, it's at least a step in the right direction.

Love this idea. Staying in business isn't easy.

That was amazing, thanks for sharing! Amazing how the woman representing the dealerships struggled to come up any logical defense for their legal protection.

LOVE this idea. A great way to get exercise and force yourself to step outside our little startup/tech bubble to experience more of the "real world".

"They only have 35 engineers, what they could do is limited."

Um, am I the only one that thinks 35 engineers is a pretty good size team to get a good amount of work done?

Agreed. The model is broken.

Maybe success shouldn't be considered success unless the fit is right.

I'm thinking that recruiter's being able to pick up large amounts of candidates doesn't necessarily equal success. Success would be defined as companies getting the right fit for their job openings.

Simply filling those job openings every time does not mean the right fit is found every time.

"I don't even know what my work phone number is, but recruiters call the front desk and asked to be put through to me (presumably)"

I've had this happen to me in the past and my jaw almost dropped. Like, REALLY?

Goes to show that these recruiters are all about spray and play, and have no real logical strategies.

Seems like it's every week or so now that a developer writes a letter like this to recruiters. Trust me, I completely agree - recruiters suck.

But I'm wondering if the recruiters you're actually trying to reach are simply never going to listen and never stop their ways. That's just not who they are.

Somebody needs to fix the recruiting industry, for realz.

Health insurance companies in the United States don't exist to help people with medical problems. They exist to make as much money as possible.

Along these lines, I've always wanted a repo specific wayback machine that would generate a state of your site for every commit, so you could browse what your site looked like at every point along the way as you built your repo.

So I could browse back to last week and see what my site looked like, or to my 3rd commit and see what my site looked like then.

No, it said GRUBHUB. Why would it say Github?