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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched by larrys on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:27AM (#4843323)
"than the standard 'seeking unix ninja rockstar' stuff"

People do that because they are mimicking seeing others do that and additionally haven't seen it enough (apparently) to realize how annoying and cliche it sounds. If the ads that the wannabees read said something different repeatedly (like "extremely talented c/c++/unix developers" and then listed 20 specifics for example) they might be mimicking that instead.

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