Re: Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: > > >that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews > >over the last few months. > > > >I'm not quite sure how to interpret that > > Ho

Re: lots of ??? kind of perl?

2003-03-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:55:24PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > > >those LOC numbers scare me -- those modules average 2666 lines each! > >is the term 'straight forward' a euphemism for bad code? :) > > > > Would be interesting to know how much HTML they have embedded into the > Perl code.

Re: Good trend

2003-03-28 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:55:46AM -0800, Michael R. Wolf wrote: > > Pearl among the muck > > On Wednesday *and* Thursday of this week, I received a cold call from > a head hunter referencing my (months old) resume from their database. Yeah, I've also noticed a serious up-tick in interest (c

Re: PERL - Yahoo! Software Developer (onsite), CA, Sunnyvale

2003-01-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:35:22PM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > If someone wanted to edit an existing (but inactive) job but didn't want > > it approved, then it'd probably be best to email Ask or I with a heads-up > > asking us not to approve it.

Re: PERL - Yahoo! Software Developer (onsite), CA, Sunnyvale

2003-01-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:26:29PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > > Maybe Laura should be told how embarassing she is to her company? Agreed. > The URL bit is actually not all her fault. The website looks at the > URL entered to see if it starts with "http://";. If it doesn't, it > prepends "h

Re: [Perl Jobs] Experienced Perl programmer/Linux admin needed! (principals only, please) (onsite), United States, CA, San Jose

2002-11-07 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:52:24PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: > How on earth do you live in San Jose for $30k/yr? Is there any place in CA > you can survive on that little? Yeah, but it's a few hour's drive from San Jose. -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAI

Re: i want to move back to southern california

2002-02-02 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:31:20AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > I worked in Silicon Valley for 9 months, but did not like the > Silicon Valley very much. [snip] > For four, it lacks in ethnic diversity. Are you talking about the same Silicon Valley that I'm sitting in? This is one of the

Re: scam warning (redux)

2002-01-24 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:09:37PM -0500, Michael R. Wolf wrote: > > We're in a community centered around "free" software. Larry > Wall, himself, does not currently have an income stream. When did he leave O'Reilly? -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL P

Re: approve or not?

2001-07-01 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:17:53AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > should we approve this one or not. it seems too sparse. i am on the > fence. any thoughts? It seems a bit too sparse to me. From what it says, I can't tell what the job really is. Installing Perl on a contract basis? Those would be