The Hirewolf Open Source Challenge

Fucking stop it with the "open source for us!" already.

The last thing we need is you making developers (especially those new and/or desperate for job) think they can shit out some code, call it "open source", and change their career. By your contest standards, me and my 70+ open source github repos mean you're gonna be pushing me for a CTO position somewhere.

What matters about open source is actual upkeep of the project, and the love that goes into it. That's what makes it matter to the community, what keeps it going, and what /hopefully/ keeps it interesting to the developer. That's where the value lies, not just because someone can start up a project they'll stop when you decide your little contest found its winner.

So really. We don't need more dead-ended repos because someone starts a contest. Stop doing that and encourage long term growth. It'll make all of us better.

(And just so my beard will grow a bit: An ipad? For an open source contest? Seriously?)

Hey monkeys... Here's a hoop to jump through, and if you do it good enough we might give you a job.

What's all this talk about not being able to find engineers?

"While we encourage clever code, and less mainstream languages (Hirewolves have a functional bias), these things are less important."

I think it would be nice if they told you why they favor functional languages. Do they have a higher percentage of openings with employers already using FP for things like concurrency, distribution, fault-tolerance? Clever coding and functional languages are great, but there is also the idea of using the right tool for the right job, which may not always be FP.