If you are looking for jobs, avoid Indeed.
In case you are not familiar with Indeed.com, it’s a job aggregator site that pulls jobs from various sources, such as employer sites, into one place.
It USED to be a good site, but not anymore.And they do NOT include ALL jobs, as they claim. They selectively choose which jobs to include, primarily all from big corporations. The smaller companies are being extorted, or only allowed paid listings, and not organic listings.
This is what they did. In the beginning, when they were unknown, they used other job boards to pull jobs from them. In essense, they pulled content (ie jobs) for their own gain. Once they became big, they kicked out all the job content providers and started charging them for clicks.
What’s more, their selective policy is hidden, it’s not listed anywhere on their site, you can only find out about it over the phone.
Anyone following the tech industry sees this crap everyday – some unknown, stupid, useless website gets millions in funding from venture capital firm A, B, C. blah blah blah company is valued at [insert a big million figure] and the founder is filthy rich. You start thinking to yourself – omg, what am i doing wrong? Why am I not that guy/girl who founded it? Holy shit, let me go start a website and I’ll be rich!
There is only one small problem with that – all of the above are gross exaggerations to create buzz/advertising for the website. There was nothing close to those millions in funding, that company is not worth shit, and the owner is still poor.
Don’t believe the hype you read about tech companies, it is simply NOT TRUE. you are being duped, the same way as when you watch infomercials and they promise that cleaner will clean your shirts perfectly or whatever else – it’s a lie, a gimmick.
Everytime I see articles like that and the comments that follow it, I cringe, because it’s actually pretty sad that people believe it.
Today, google has announced a “radical transformation”. It’s more tightly integrating its social network with its search. Please, say it isn’t so!! When is google gonna stop shoving this Google+ atrocity down our throats? Google is not facebook, and we LIKE it that way. Out of all the tech advances it could possibly pick, why go down the social path?? Just leave it alone! It’s not even that profitable, Facebook’s cpc rates are very low.
It seems like Google is purposefully making mistakes left and right in order to make it easier for its competitors to come in and take away search? Google, remember, search is where 99% of your revenue comes from, not social networking! Please stop f**ing up your search experience, otherwise people will just leave.
Raspberry PI is the talk of the town. An amazing $25 computer! While, no doubt, it’s a cool little device, and we are not taking away anything from the team that developed it, the truth still remains that there is very little REVOLUTIONARY about this device. It plays Quake. But, so what? It’s a 12 year old game that came out in 1999. You can take any pos (first two words: piece of) computer and it will run that game smooth as silk.
$25 computers already exist. Look on ebay. You can buy many old P4 computers for $25. And that will get you hard disk, ram, case, motherboard, processor, expansion, etc. The only advantage that Raspeberry PI has over that old computer is size. So if the creators are so worried about schools not being able to afford computers, not to worry, you can already buy $25 computers. And I am sure if you buy them in bulk, price will be even lower.
What’s more, look at the pricing for some smart phones and tablets. You can buy many non-brand tablets and phones for under $100, some even under $60. When you subtract touchscreen, wi-fi and a bunch of other things that they have, you will get a $25 price.
So, there you go. At first glance, a $25 computer is amazing. But when you think about it, it already exists.
The goals of SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, are noble. There is no question that plenty of copyrighted material has been exchanging hands online with no payment whatsoever to the rightful copyright holders – people who make great music, movies or books. There are plenty of people, in fact, the majority of the Internet users, who don’t care, because they like getting stuff for free, and after all, who doesn’t. Most of these people never produced a song, a movie or written a book – and never will.
Copyrights should be protected if we want to continue getting great movies and so on. Because without money, they will never be made. We can look at the chaos in countries like Russia or China, which offer little copyright protection. Do we want to live like them? No, we don’t.
The problem is, SOPA is the wrong way to do it. It’s overbearing and vague. It will be detrimental to the Internet, will create more lawsuits and so on. The problem is that our government can rarely get things right, and in this case, they are consistent with their poor track record.
So, if SOPA is the wrong way, what’s the right way? Honestly, I don’t know. Your suggestions in the comment box would be appreciated.
Tech IPOs have come a long way from the bubble of 2000′s and Zynga’s recent IPO is clear proof of that. Priced at $10, on the high end of the spectrum, it tanked to almost below $9. Those, hoping to make a quick buck by buying at the open left disappointed. TripAdvisor’s IPO suffered a similar fate by taking on a downward spiral on its first day. This leaves the scene pretty grim for Facebook, which is expected to launch its IPO in 2012. Right now, it seems to be a pretty safe bet to short these IPOs. What a far cry from 10 years ago. Times change.
So, facebook is now putting ads into the body of the posts. It seems that facebook is desperate and short on funds. I mean, why else would they do this?
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an be used to conduct network reconnaissance, which is typically carried out by a remote attacker attempting to gain information or access to a network on which it is not authorized or allowed. Network reconnaissance is increasingly used to exploit network standards and automated communication methods. The aim is to determine what types of computers are present, along with additional information about those computers—such as the type and version of the operating system. This information can be analyzed for known or recently discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to secure networks and computers. Network reconnaissance is possibly one of the most common applications of passive data analysis. Early generation techniques, such as TCP/IP passive fingerprinting, have accuracy issues that tended to make it ineffective. Today, numerous tools exist to make reconnaissance easier and more effective.
Thinking of posting a tech job on Dice.com? WAIT.
Aren’t you tired of overpaying, the clunky user interface, the low application volume? There is a better solution – AceTiger.com
AceTiger.com has a better tech job search than Dice.com. If you are looking for technical jobs and want an alternative to Dice.com, AceTiger.com is your destination.
AceTiger.com is a full-featured technical job search portal that attracts thousands of daily visitors, has hundreds of daily job postings and is used by many of the Fortune 500 companies such as Allstate and Home Depot.
So if you’ve had enough of Dice.com, AceTiger.com is the answer!
1) CBCJobs.com
This site lets you post jobs, search resumes as well as your own internal candidate database, all absolutely free. Only pay to post jobs on external job boards. Easy to use interface, an all around winner on our list.
2) SmartRecruiters
This site has a good visual interface and charges to post on external job boards as well. Getting around is a bit difficult.
3) JobScore
JobScore has a unique system where you have to add resumes to view resumes, kind of the old bulletin board system approach. The next price points are $99/month and $249 a month, which let you view more resumes.
4) CATS
CATS used to be open-source. You can still download an old free version of it, and it’s unfortunate to see that it has been converted to a paid version.
5) RoosterHR
Rooster is a newcomer on the HR scene and claims to have a fully functioning ATS. It somewhat lacks in features, but might be okay for a smaller company.
If you are looking for jobs, avoid Indeed.
