Leander_B

We let our son of 2 years old watch children songs on YouTube using the iPad. He can change the movies himself. Something strange has occurred and really intrigues me now, for some reason or another, he always ends up on videos of '(Kinder) Surprise Eggs' unwrapping. I started to see a pattern for each of these videos:

> SEO optimised titles e.g. "Disney Cars 2 Kinder Egg Toy Surprise Angry Birds Easter Egg Spongebob Squarepants Holiday Edition"

> Recent publishing dates

> Very high page view (videos of less then one year with xx,xxx,xxx views)

Are these channels 'spam'? From where the high pageview? Is the underlying motive of these videos just to earn money with ads?

Some examples:

3 month old video with >3M views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-SWIAVxTo

5 month old video with >26M views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKmbKRElHY

Isn't this all going against the Google view of adding quality and all that..

My wife is looking to start a career consultancy service aimed at tech people.

One of the areas covered will be to help you create a better CV to increase chances to land a job. These are: - Emphasising the good parts - Leaving out more irrelevant parts - CV writing in general - Feedback on layout - Applicable tips on the key elements to get your CV on top of the list of a hiring manager

A bit of her background, she has worked a technical in-house (only) recruiter for Oracle and some online gaming companies, with over 5 years experience in total.

Another area is helping people with job interviews, so if someone is in the process of applying for a job, you can also always ask her what you would like to know!

If you feel uncomfortable exposing your name or companies where you've worked at, you can blank them out.

You can send your CV to cv.review.hn@gmail.com and depending on the success, expect an answer in the next 2-3 days.

It is supposed to be a professional network, but the quality is lower then my facebook feed.

Meaning the 'Pulse' which shares outdated or irrelevant (x tips to y) stories, updates, the timeline which is filled with absolutely useless/annoying content. The groups who are owned are taken over by recruiters/spam.

I guess its only real power is to be connected with (previous) colleagues and to see what they're up to. And ofcourse the job postings for companies (although I would never look for a job starting on Linkedin..)

Am I the only one?

My wife is looking for a (major) career change. My advise to her is to pick up programming. I gave her a first introduction in the fundamentals of programming and let her read some basic books. She grasps this quite well and is also very interested in it and eager to learn. Now is the time to dive deeper into a language (besides the HTML and CSS which we will start with) and stick to that one. The big Question is, which one?

Keeping following in mind:

- She has 4/5 months free where she can learn 5 to 6 hours a day intensively

- After this period, she would like to work as a freelancer (based in Europe)

- She would like to freelance (or be a contractor) for more established/bigger companies, no interest in working for smaller startups

- Should be web programming

My thoughts are either Ruby or Javascript with the rise of Node.JS and frameworks like Meteor and Express. The issue with Ruby is that it's mostly used for startups, which if they grow usually switch to another stack. Python might be another solution but afaik not very demanded in Europe.

HN, I would love to hear your thoughts and recommendations!

On HN, most if not all recruitment related articles are negative:

- Why Recruiters Are Universally Hates

- Why Technology Recruiters Fail

- Groupon tries to recruit DHH

- ...

All of this got me thinking, we always hate on recruiters and say we could do it so much better (that's why we're hackers after all), so why don't we do it ourselves?

This is the whole idea behind my new startup likewise.io, where software developers can refer other software developers, and in exchange receive a commission close to what a recruiter makes.

1. Do you like the idea and concept? 2. Would you actively use it to refer your connections, colleagues, friends etc? 3. How would you improve it? * 4. As a company, would you advertise jobs on it? (The business model is quite the same as that of a recruitment agency for companies in terms of price)

* Hard to say without access to the community/marketplace, but if you sign up and add HN in your name I'll try to approve you faster.

URL: likewise.io

Thanks for feedback!