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Speaking Dutch is not necessary at Booking.com.
But definitely a plus in Amsterdam. You can get by fine with English but to really feel at home - you should know the language. This is assuming you want to make the place you live in feel like home.
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#13Hmm, so the news of Perl's deaths have been exaggerated then?
Well, something that surprises me is why hasn't this post been upvoted at least once (after 25 minutes) ? I'm pretty sure it can be interesting to many more people (I would be if I loved perl, but I don't practice it).
If you already know C, bash, Ruby, Python or PHP, you will find a lot of carryover to Perl.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking Dutch is not necessary at Booking.com.
But definitely a plus in Amsterdam. You can get by fine with English but to really feel at home - you should know the language. This is assuming you want to make the place you live in feel like home.
I was eventually able to pronounce Scheveningen, though.
Edit: All this is to say, of all the non-English-speaking countries to go to as an English speak, The Netherlands is probably the easiest to get by in.
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#15Are they trying to prove the infinite monkey theorem, empirically?
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#1640 ?! Are they trying to prove the infinite monkey theorem, empirically?
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#1740 ?! Are they trying to prove the infinite monkey theorem, empirically?
I don't think really. Based on some discussion, it seems they are more adding a pile of new servers everyday, and they also seem to do a very good job at automating their process etc.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
But definitely a plus in Amsterdam. You can get by fine with English but to really feel at home - you should know the language. This is assuming you want to make the place you live in feel like home.
I lived in Den Haag for three months and I was surprised at how little Dutch was spoken on a day-to-day basis. Everyone defaulted to English all the time, and the only people I met who didn't speak it were immigrants from other countries (usually Russia). I was eventually able to pronounce Scheveningen, though. Edit: All this is to say, of all the non-English-speaking countries to go to as an English speak, The Nethe…
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#1940 ?! Are they trying to prove the infinite monkey theorem, empirically?
I don't think really. Based on some discussion, it seems they are more adding a pile of new servers everyday, and they also seem to do a very good job at automating their process etc.
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#20http://www5jh.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=a...
40 decent perl programmers in Amsterdam is going to be tough to fill.
The only ones I know of that are good with Perl you wouldn't want to hire for any reason.
First I thought they meant Perl programmers 40 years and older, but age discrimination is illegal here :)