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by svilen_dobrev 102 days ago
good work..

one suggestion.. all these page-content-rewrites might be fine for a magazine, but here the user is searching, probably comparing, probably hundreds of items. Mostly because of inadequate/impossible filtering, combined with quite tough market - the net has to be cast wider and wider. So, just give plain pages, with choosable page-size. SPA not exactly needed.

btw Remote-ness is highly volatile factor, cannot be booleanly relied.

example search: i am in Bulgaria, so anything there + anything ~~remote in EU + anything ~~remote in that GMT+2 timezone +/- 3h. Exclude anything from (list of shitty agencies). Now Read all those and check

- see if they are in my city or are enoughly remote (can be certain-country/ies-remote, or even certain city/ies-remote =~~hybrid), or pretending to be remote..

- see if they are written in or require a human language i do not speak

- and only then maybe check the actual role :/

in 3 months i have read like 5-25 of these per day, picked from ~10-100.. from 5 sites, eventually - if there were any.

i Agree that linkedin is full of shit, although they are the only ones that do have an exclusion operator "-something", and have somewhat working boolean filtering (X OR Y) AND (Z OR T).. eh, within their sea of shit :/

good to have some sane alternative, thanks

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Appreciate the feedback and take all your points.

Location-based filtering and figuring out if a job is remote are tricky problems, as all the data sources I'm using represent it inconsistently.

Parsing location strings like "Multiple Location" and "100% Remote" or "Remote: United States | Europe | United Kingdom | Canada" is a bit of a ballache without latlon pair. The algorithm I've got right now needs some improvements.