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Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? by _pius on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:44PM (#5614290)
... is not a business many high level hackers would be interested in at all.

If you don't see that that's fine ....

You sound very defensive about this, which leads to the flip side of your argument: any prospect who can't take the lightest of jabs at their pet platform is not a person many "high level" startups would be interested in at all.

Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? by jkldotio on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:45PM (#5618453)
The 81 upvotes (of 191 for the story as a whole) on my original post and the replies here with people overtly stating they'd like to work for the company but were immediately turned off by that phrase I think prove my point. If we consider the jobs page as a kind of landing page and were A/B testing different different phrases it's clear this one would not survive.

I understand you are making an app on iOS though and it would be perfectly legitimate for you to have constraints on employee setups because of that. But for a company working on a RoR project where the window manager doesn't matter, who seem to be having trouble recruiting, I'd suggest the data here clearly indicates they should drop the phrase as there is no way (looking at those numbers) it is helping them filter out some trouble making characters with a bad attitude towards Apple, it's turning a huge number of people off. And as I said elsewhere, there are companies certainly paying more and certainly working on more interesting problems who don't do this.

Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? by danielweber on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:33PM (#5614610)
It's negging, before the first date has even happened.
Re:Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? by scott_s on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:40PM (#5618654)
I use Macs, and the impression that comment gives me is they care about things that don't matter.