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Post by mgrouchy »

smokinn wrote: post #28
scott_s wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think he was asking about the smart part, but the engineer part.

Canada makes that easy. Here you can only call yourself an engineer if you're actually an engineer because it's a protected term. (Like doctor.) We don't have the ridiculousness of sanitation engineer and the like so if the job posting includes engineer in the title you can easily assume they expect a degree and a licence with a proper Canadian accreditation board. And in case you were wondering, software engineering…

I'm Canadian and I don't know if this is entirely correct. Afaik you can only get acredited as a software engineer in a couple of provinces(Ontario,Quebec and Alberta I believe). Many universities have software engineering as sub programs or honors programs in the cs and engineering depts. As for job titles, I don't know if that's entirely correct either. I've seen jobs that are programmer, developer, software developer, programmer/analyst etc. Require a degree so I don't know if you can really generalize there.

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Post by roundsquare »

jonp wrote: post #12

Could someone explain what "recess on Thursday (yes, like elementary school)" means? Thanks.

In elementary school (at least where I grew up) every day we'd have "recess" where we got to go outside for 30 minutes and play sports or play on the monkey bars or whatever.

Re: Now this is a job posting

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Post by picasso81 »

jonp wrote: post #12

Could someone explain what "recess on Thursday (yes, like elementary school)" means? Thanks.

We go to the park every week to play kick ball. Besides the fresh air, it's a great venue to exchange ideas with other people in the company.

Re: Now this is a job posting

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Post by mmt »

grinich wrote: post #38
mmt wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For sysadmin postings, I like to see at least a blurb of "technologies we use," since it allows me to avoid, for example, Microsoft shops.

Can you be specific in why you don't like Microsoft shops? A few years a go, I worked at a web design agency that used a ton of MS products. They produced some really top-notch work for their clients, and shipped it all on the MS stack. The impression I got was that they wanted to focus on the product and not spend time fixing ActiveRecord bugs, etc. Are there really no good MS hackers out there? Is it a cultural thi…

You do have to keep in mind that I'm talking specifically of my profession here, system administration.

First and foremost, these days, MS is neither free nor open source. This is a huge factor in the kind of startups that seem to be more frequent on HN.

They produced some really top-notch work for their clients, and shipped it all on the MS stack.

Did they then administer it?

Windows has been, traditionally, impractical (to the point of bordering on impossible) to administer remotely and in an automated fashion. Even the Mac has enough Unix under the covers that it can be integrated reasonably well into a Linux environment.

There's another issue of hardware efficiency (or bloat). Using a minimal, obsolete machine as a boot server, I can install a fully functional LAMP stack "image" on at least a couple dozen machines, in parallel, in under 7 minutes. I'd be interested in hearing the comparable Microsoft numbers.

Re: Now this is a job posting

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Post by paul9290 »

nerme wrote: post #31
paul9290 wrote: post #22

My job posting would be similar but would add "Bonus points if you are musician who takes jam breaks in between coding." Which I do myself often. Instead of just having Rock Band the game I'd have full on band equipment. Working towards this type of environment!

Me too! And I do! I frequently work at my band's practice space. :) Are you in SF?

no opposite end of country - Bmore
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