Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

Re:Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News? by ardit33 on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @08:28PM (#110593)

when I see those "code ninja needed", posts, it just makes me laugh. Juvenile at best, idiotic at worse. It is hard to take those companies that do that seriously.

Tell me, what does a code ninja do? Write fast and crappy code, and disapear, so some other poor soul have to maintain it? Crash the whole server with two lines of recurisve calls? Check-in code so stealthy that Subversion doesn't even detect it?

Ps. I noticed the "code ninja" trend, with the raise of Ruby on Rail. It is everytime I have seen, it has been a posting for either Ruby, or Php job.

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Re:Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News? by kajecounterhack on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @11:18PM (#110687)

Well...I'm a code pirate. So there.

And I'm fine being called a coder, it doesn't really matter what we're called right? Its more about what we do ;)

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Re:Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News? by cstejerean on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @08:55PM (#110607)

It's an attempt by companies to have their job postings stand out. Similar to looking for a "rockstar programmer".

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Re:Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News? by derefr on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:41AM (#110761)

As far as I can tell, they assassinate bugs before users even realize they're there.

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