Re:How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?
by tbirrell on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:44PM
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First question. What languages are in use? Because I know LAMP, but this might be on Microsoft or MEAN. In which case I'll have found and cleaned up 3 projects and a resume for no reason. All the information needs to be presented upfront, I don't want to have to go looking for it.
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Re:How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?
by jashkenas on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:57PM
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I believe it's somewhat flexible — as this post is for a new, small team (within Interactive News). So there's not necessarily a big existing codebase to maintain, and they're going to be working on some greenfield reporting tools.
That said, we use a lot of JavaScript, a fair amount of R, a medium amount of Ruby, some Python, and occasionally Go. Stats skills are a plus, as are database skills, as are design chops.
Re:How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?
by jeremyjbowers on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @06:21PM
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Hi! We're a mix of Python, Ruby, Node and the occasional bit of Go. We decided not to add that to the job description because we don't make our hiring decisions based on command of a particular language. If you have concerns, send me an email: [email protected].