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How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer
An anonymous reader writes "Todd Cranston-Cuebas, tech recruiter for Ticketmaster, offers
insider tips and tricks for landing an open-source job -- or for recruiting new talent to your IT staff." Make yourself googleable.
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There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
This isn't a troll, just a general observation about ticketmaster as a company.
My latest experience with them, trying to buy phish tickets, ended up in disaster. Not only did ticketmaster manage to sell out of their 60,000 tickets (spread over 4 days of shows for phish on dec 31,jan1,2,3) in just under 30 minutes to nobody except scalpers via their main website. The claim is that no tickets were sold to anybody anywhere except via credit card through the website, no phone orders, no walk in's. Yet the website was unavailable the entire 30 minute period, yet they still sold all their tickets? This isn't the only time this has happened, just the most recent for me.
If you get advice from ticketmaster, take it with a grain of salt. They can't even sell tickets properly and legit. They don't know how to run a high load web server, and they don't even bother to attempt to spread the load out. anybody that would treat their multimillion dollar contracts as that unimportant as to not have a properly working website is not going to give you sound advice.
My advice? If you want open source advice, don't ask people that don't even know how to run a website.
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