Briefly: After submitting my motivation and curriculum on a Front End Developer position. The booking portal confirmation page displayed a message reading I would hear from them soon. After more than 3 weeks (which I think is not soon), out of the blue I received a standarized email.
It said Booking.com wanted to know me better. To prove my skills and to find out how I would handle a priority list they attached a Front End Developer assignment. Although it was strange no explaination on the attachment was given. Also I was again asked for my resumee which I uploaded earlier.
I showed my dedication and worked out 3 areas of the provided assignment. While sending out I explicitly asked for a confirmation. Sadly I never received or heared anything after that.
My impression is that nobody ever looked at the assignment I made. In the source code, I included a 1px image pointing to a logger on my server. I never saw anything back in the tracker link. There is always a change that my assignment got blocked or is not up to the standards of Booking. If I had to hire anybody I would at least keep in touch and would ask when the person to hire does not sent anything back. If it is not the right person I would tell him.
After mailing 3 more times Booking.com did not bother to communicate they ignored me completly. I learned it is not wise to spend a few hours on an assignment while not have spoken anybody from Booking. Although I thought I wanted to work for them the reality is that Booking does not want to work with me.
To conclude: In my eyes Booking.com is very unreliable and does not hold their promise. It seems recruitment advertisements are out only to show how big and dominant they are. For me it was not possible to communicate with the recruitment department by e-mail. Sending an assignment was a quick and cheap way to filter me out. Not telling me is so cheap.
Lucky enhough there are plenty of employers in Amsterdam who respond professional and are willing to talk and hire decent people. If you meet a Dutch company. Double check if they are really seeking an expat. I have reacted to positions written in English although I speak German and French, Dutch is sometimes a requirement not listed.
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]]>This is a nice thought but it conflicts head-on with my experience.
]]>Sorry this didn't work out for you. So much of the failures of the last few years has really lead to me wonder if the age of community driven free/open software is over...
I understand you're need to step back, I've recently been going though something similar with my involvement in Catalyst, and sometimes stepping back and getting away from banging your head on a wall gives you some time to clear the mind a bit. You definitely need to be happy and do what is leading you to personal fulfillment. I know we've not always agreed on technology choices, I know you value deep stability whereas I think stuff needs to evolve to keep pace with the wants and needs of current developers, but I've always valued having you as a peer. Hopefully that will continue into whatever open possible open source communities we find ourselves in the future.
Thanks!
jnap
I was indeed really sad to see you pushed out of #catalyst some weeks ago. Can only echo your words re "hopefully things will continue" ;)
Cheers!
]]>I am sure things will find a new path that works, you're super smart!
Since this is a public channel I wanted to reply regarding #catalyst, I don't think I was pushed out, but just pushed in a way I didn't have energy to deal with, given all the things going on in my personal life. I don't feel I have the energy to deal with what feels like a broken communication and community process to me regarding the project, and that overlaps with my feelings about Perl in general right now. Its more than I can deal with. I logged out because that was what I felt I needed to do.
Take it slow, I'll be as OSCON this year just FYI
jnap
]]>I share in some small way your disappointment. This does not augur well for Perl, as your presence on CPAN will be missed.
What with this campaign failing, I do not understand why my pledge was triggered: the pledged amount was deducted from my checking account yesterday. Given that I was to be billed if and only if you reached the goal, can you explain the charge to my account?
Thank you,
Larry
P.S. My contribution would not have made a material difference, but I was planning on "doubling down" :
]]>Thank you so much for your contribution. The campaign triggered due to an internal problem in the tilt system. The resolution is ongoing. Please read more here
Sorry once again about this :(
Cheers!
But reducing dependency chains is a worthy goal, and one that should improve everyone's life. And one I wish you had made a bigger effort to promote that aspect of your proposal on the campaign page. Because I'm more of a sixer by nature, I completely missed the subtext of your campaign that I would have picked up on had I been more involved in CPAN.
Different companies have different budgeting processes -- perhaps this would have worked better with a truly long fundraiser time.
As it is, I upped my donation by an order of magnitude, though it's probably too late. Anyway, I appreciate all of your contributions.
P.S. You really only have 35kUSD in debt? I can beat that easily!
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]]>Arriving at this sort of clarity took me several years, left alone being able to put it into words. I feel in the end it's for the best, less tension on all sides is not to be underestimated.
perhaps this would have worked better with a truly long fundraiser time.
Hmmm... longer than 3 months? That's... an interesting thought for whoever attempts to do this next.
You really only have 35kUSD in debt?
Hehe. Well, I didn't get a chance at higher ed. so that probably helped ;P
]]>1) Fundraising is like running a political campaign, you are always doing it. You need to treat it like a big marketing project. Always have your 'elevator pitch' ready. Its a marathon, not a sprint.
2) Rich people and companies don't contribute because its the right thing to do (even if it would help them be supporting projects they use). They contribute because fundraising is a prime way of measuring status between the uber rich, and its a primary tool they use to network with each other to improve their positions. That's why when you hold a big fundraising event its never really about supporting the cause its about getting rich people together in the same room so they can network. Inviting a few important people is helpful, people pay a lot of money to met a Clinton or a Mandela, so they can give those people much higher than themselves the 'elevator pitch' they have ready for the big new project they've been dreaming.
3) Asking for more is better than asking for less. Same reason why Amazon charges for Prime, they want you to think its something valuable.
4) Its easier to raise money off people than corporations. Remember a company has to answer to stockholders when they spend money, people can do whatever they want with there extra cash. It goes back to item 2, people donate because its a way to improve their person position, allow them to network with similar people of economic status, and give them a change to get in front of even richer people with there big ideas.
The other thing I recall is that a good way to get started is to get grants from existing non profits, because that makes you look like a winner to people for when you go to run the real, big fundraiser. The advantage of grants is that its really just paperwork and time. You don't get a lot of money that way, typically, but it lets you develop a portfolio of success in convincing people to give you money, which makes you look a lot more viable later on when you go to run the real fundraiser. Partnering with someone in academics that is good at grant writing is really helpful. It takes a team to do this.
Best of luck
jnap
Plot was generated, but somehow on the top I see PDL/Prima (Not Responding) and if I move the cursor on the top of the plot I see that the cursor is spinning constantly.
What I have done was this:
1. Downloaded dk/PDL-Drawing-Prima from Github. Extracted it to folder C:\sw\pdl\cpan\build
2. Opened shell by clicking portableshell.bat in C:\sw\pdl\. Used shell to navigate to the folder that was extracted from zip file.
3. From shell ran these commands to install PDL::Drawing::Prima:
perl Build.PL
Build
Build test
Build install
4. Installed PDL::Graphics::Prima with cpanm.