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I didn't know there existed humour-vaccums in the HN space time continuum. I prescribe one page of Wodehouse with your morning coffee and two strips of Dilbert before bed.
Firstly, it makes your company look like it's run by people who are sexist because you decide to explicitly bring up two actresses and having sex with them in a job posting. This makes me wonder what the working environment would be like. In the posting you might have got away with "Would you rather spend time with Angelina Jolie or Linus Torvalds?" but you went with asking whether I'd rather have a threesome sexual encounter with those two actresses.
Secondly, the posting doesn't do much to tell me why your company is interesting. You mention some characteristics of the application in the part you term SEO but you don't mention specifics such as datastorage platform or programming language.
Thirdly, since you are in India and I don't have much experience of India a job posting like this on the front page of Hacker News makes me wonder whether this sort of sexist imagery is normal in India and that doesn't attract me to the place.
Lastly, this isn't a question of humour. Whenever sexist, racist, homophobic imagery is used in the computer industry a common retort from the people who use it is that the people 'offended' need to get a sense of humour. How funny would it be to you if I posted a job posting that made it clear that I was biased against Indians?
Anyway, to put it bluntly: I wouldn't want to work for a company with such a sexist attitude. Diversity is good.
We have not tested/interviewed you. So, the question of your working for us is hypothetical, at best.
Until you brought it up, we never thought of our candidates' sexual orientations. We do test for adequate blood circulation to the brain, though.
I don't think it's going to work though.
(Also I imagine Linus is extra grumpy at 7am).
You are single handedly pulling up the average HQ of this thread :^) I owe you a pizza.
Except it's stupid.
BTW, that's the 2nd best choice one can make. Think.
And, I forgot to mention that breakfast with Linus is a charity event with a cover charge of 100 USD. Would you still wakeup early and run for it?
Besides, yes, sexist.
I was a long time cvs user. Could hack it to do what I wanted. Switched to git ~2yrs ago; not so easy to bend but its complexity is one of its main attraction for me.
Hey guys,
(I hope, in modern urban culture, 'guys' is a sexually neutral term; Else, I will have to address the some of the sensitive readers as Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms ...; Let me know)
Sincere apologies are in order:
* To all men and some women whom my post offended because I didn't mention their favourite starlet
* To all women and some men whom my post offended because I didn't mention Brad Pitt and David Hasselhoff
* And to all others who are not Scott Adams' readers
Some of the best computer science engineers I have worked with are women. And I don't hire based on the brand of their nail polish.
You are welcome. The pleasure is mine.
Sort of complementing stunts from the other side[1] of hiring scene
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_%28video_...
BTW, know anyone in Bangalore who fit our needs? Our entire engineering runs from here. Shufflr - our social video discovery app - is taking off well on phones (iPhone and Android) as well as on the web (http://shufflr.tv).
Our platform on the cloud that powers all these apps, needs to be scaled for the next order of magnitude in the next couple of months. Please spread the word if you know anyone. Thanks!
And one of us is refusing to read & discuss the portion of the post that is actually interesting for an engineer.
I am not so hugely popular to do be able to disservice to my country with a short post on HN. Since we are on the subject of countries, I hope you are not from the US. Because, my friends there have an awesome HQ (hint: they actually laugh heartily watching Colbert Report and Daily Show).
You have a fertile imagination, I agree, but in the eagerness to call me names, you've let a word slip: s/imaginary/imagery
Can I post this exchange to the readers of DNRC ? Can't keep so much fun to ourselves, can we?
> You may not actually mind talking to me normally, if we met across the street.
He didn't say anything about you personally, just the posting.
> And one of us is refusing to read & discuss the portion of the post that is actually interesting for an engineer.
Your post says a lot about what you need, but nothing about what your company actually uses or what your stack looks like. There's nothing about why I would want to join you (well, except the fact that you can afford five pizzas, I guess).
> Since we are on the subject of countries, I hope you are not from the US. Because, my friends there have an awesome HQ (hint: they actually laugh heartily watching Colbert Report and Daily Show).
I don't understand what this means. (EDIT: From another answer, I realize that by HQ you mean IQ, not headquarters, so it's just an insult).
> You have a fertile imagination, I agree, but in the eagerness to call me names, you've let a word slip: s/imaginary/imagery
I'm guessing the parent edited that? Still, he didn't call you any names anywhere that I saw.