When I started programming, in 1976, all that an individual programmer needed to demonstrate her or her work was a room-sized mainframe computer, a card reader, and a line printer. So it made sense to have job fairs where employers sat at desks with posters and candidates walked around. Today most software can be demonstrated from a laptop or a smartphone, so why not have the programmers sit at desks and let the employers walk around and browse among the achievements?
That’s exactly what is happening in Mountain View this weekend at The Hacker Fair. Does anyone else know of similar events past or future?
http://www.cs50.net/fair/ isn’t explicitly a job fair, but I’m sure it serves that purpose in some way and might be of interest to you.
Thanks for writing about the Hacker Fair at the Hacker Dojo! I’d love to give you a tour of the Dojo sometime if you haven’t been by already.
Psychologically, the party that has to travel to the rendevous starts out as the weaker party in a negotiation.
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