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I got to listen to Tom, one of the cofounders of GitHub, do a presentation tonight in Boulder for the local Linux users group. He did a great job. One of the nice things about it is that it wasn't a high level pitch about the business model or about what GitHub was. Instead, it was basically an introduction to the core architecture of git. How it works. How it's different than say CVS, or just keeping manual backup copies of files around. He actually went into Terminal, wrote code, and essentially hand-crafted git storage files in a Ruby interpreter, in order to illustrate how git works internally, and how simple it is. It was great on two levels. One one level, it was very substantive for a crowd of Linux geeks, we eat that stuff up. And on another level the fact that he clearly understood this stuff and enjoyed it and gets his fingers dirty actually building things. If I wasn't already firmly in the no-Ruby-for-me camp (prefer Python, and don't want to waste time switching time investments over to an approximately similar language), I'd probably love to work with them. Small companies rock. People that know their shit, and are passionate about it, rock.

If I navigate to http://amiworkingforgithubnow.com/yes does that mean I'm instantly hired?

I thought maybe it was shenanigans like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4198883/exposing-any-ruby...

where you were suppose to add your handle to GITHUB_HANDLES list, but alas didn't work.

Note for web developers: Browsers on Windows suck at rendering most custom fonts. If you feel that you definitely want to embed your font, at least please check it on Windows first, play with font sizes and positioning and make sure they don't look silly.

Why should everyone have to purchase another OS, at a high price, just to work around another OS's problems? Shouldn't you be contacting your OS provider about this instead?

When that "other OS" is highly ubiquitous (~90% or higher market share), it is reasonable to expect developers to purchase the OS before developing for an audience that uses it.

Could someone please explain this?

Github has been announcing a ton of new hires in the past couple of their days (5 since the beginning of February).

See:

- https://github.com/blog/

- https://github.com/blog/792-aman-gupta-tmm1-is-a-githubber

- https://github.com/blog/790-simon-sr-rozet-is-a-githubber

- https://github.com/blog/788-mislav-marohni%C4%87-is-a-github...

- https://github.com/blog/786-tim-clem-is-a-githubber

- https://github.com/blog/779-corey-johnson-is-a-githubber

Unfortunately, it appears they are not looking for interns :-(

No? They said differently at the Stanford career fair a few weeks ago.

Perhaps they are only looking for Stanford interns.

Or maybe only people that wouldn't have to relocate.

This is something that is frustrating to me. Startups will go to MIT and Standford begging for interns and grads but people who are qualified and show enough initiative to do the challenges/job postings don't even get an email back. Just because my school is small and not well known outside of the Midwest doesn't make it inferior.

/rant I suppose I just have to start my own thing if I want to work around smart and cool people.

It's a lot of work arranging travel and accommodations.

Additionally, outliers aside, talent density outside of the top five or ten schools is pretty dismal. It's kind of a rough deal for the handful of talented people at smaller schools, but you can't expect a company with limited resources to bother going after them.

I accidentally upvoted you. Sorry, but I absolutely disagree. Talent "density" outside of a few media friendly schools is actually very good. Better still, that talent is cheaper.

You can get excellent developers for $50K/year coming out of a "second tier" school which certainly beats having to hire a $200K/year princess out of stanford.

Fact mit, harvard and stanford aren't holy ground for the only places to find smart people. In fact I think the brand name works against them a little. My experience (MIT only) has been that the stars tend to be better but the average tends to be about the same as anywhere else. You get students forgetting data structures, using the wrong algorithms and other such tragedies. I'd bet money that Harvard and Stanford have the same issues.

Bullshit. When I came to SF to be an intern, I purchased my own tickets (my parents helped) and I found a room on Craigslist for three months. (Again, my parents helped with the rent.) I wish I had known about AirBnB.

My point is, if your intern can figure out web programming, the difference between Ruby procs and lambdas, or what fine whiskey tastes like, they can book a flight.

Go build your own thing, showcase your work and they would come after you. Working for github or any successful startup would be great but not the only thing in town. It probably is not the case with github but most startups teach you what not to do more than what to do.

I asked a couple weeks ago and they didn't even look at my resume before telling me no, so perhaps it's location.

Even still, I'd rather they say that, than that they aren't taking interns. Perhaps it was just a question of my timing though.

Link: http://twitter.com/#!/holman/status/32892327869554689

They definitely are. And unlike some comments theorize, they're not just looking for Stanford students.

Proof: http://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/27159671752101888

Part of the hires they did was for some new projects (I think iphone related). I'm very happy for the new hires, it must be great to work there.

Hmmm... Strange, it's broken for me.

Well, it crashes Safari on my iPod Touch 2G. I was curious so I looked at the code.

IMHO there are only two possibilities:

(a) It's the css-font-definition-stuff they're doing (b) google analytics script is causing the problem

Actually, I do think it's google.

Too bad, people should check their websites on mobile devices, too, before release. I believe I am not the only one who enjoys his/her daily dose of hacker news from a mobile device reclining on a couch. :-)

No, I mean broken as in I keep getting the wrong answer. :/

I'm scared now... Maybe I'm getting fired or something.

If Safari crashes, you should report bug to Apple, not to whoever made website that triggers some random Safari bug.

Is the lack of a link to a list of available jobs and locations or even a mailto:jobs@ email address supposed to be part of an indie appeal?

I suppose hunting down the job listing is part of the test ;)

That is some Alice in Wonderland $#!7 right there. Can you truly ever complete the hunt for nothing?

I assumed it was a joke and not actually from github.

Yea, totally a joke and not from github :-)

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