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A comment on Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark.

Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark by michael_dorfman on Thursday December 10, 2009 @09:10AM (#987834)
There are two issues here: the business idea (of the jobs site), and Joel's puffery.

I'll make no comment on the latter point, but I have to wonder about the former-- if the hiring process is broken (and I accept the argument that it is), what's a better angle for a start-up than what Jeff and Joel have done?

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Re:Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark by raganwald on Thursday December 10, 2009 @09:20AM (#987859)
With respect to programming jobs startups, it seems like there are at least two ways forward. One is to find a new way to match programmers with existing jobs. The other is to find new kinds of jobs entirely.

YCombinator has funded at least one company finding new ways to match programmers with jobs. And I think YCombinator itself is a new kind of job for programmers :-)

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