Re:Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers.
by jpeterson on Friday February 11, 2011 @01:05PM
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First, it's not exploitation. It can't be. It could only be exploitation if reddit were somehow planning to benefit from their implementations...
Did you miss the part where they're using this as a recruiting screen?
Re:Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers.
by jemfinch on Friday February 11, 2011 @01:10PM
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Did you miss the part of my sentence where I listed an example of what would qualify as actual exploitation?
Obviously I know they're using it as a recruiting screen. It's completely appropriate for them to do so.
Re:Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers.
by hackinthebochs on Friday February 11, 2011 @06:08PM
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> It could only be exploitation if reddit were somehow planning to benefit from their implementations
The point is that having a ready-made recruiting screen is benefiting from the implementations.
First, it's not exploitation. It can't be. It could only be exploitation if reddit were somehow planning to benefit from their implementations--e.g., if it would actually deploy one in production.
Second, I think you're making a false assumption that "young individual with wonder-lust" putting in "significant hours" on a task like this is time wasted. I've spent far more time writing IRC bots just for the fun of it, but was that time wasted? Of course not. I learned new skills, gained new knowledge, and was able to approach the real world of software development with the confidence of having actually implemented my own project end-to-end.
Though I think the two projects differ substantially in their difficulty, either project would benefit implementor in itself even apart from any prospects of getting hired.