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How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer

Posted by timothy on from the an-ask-slashdot-faq dept.

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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    beyotch

  2. Re:Another Tip... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they're also really fucking fat and live with their mothers.

  3. Getting it is easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Filling it with illegal substances and sending it across the border is not.

    1. Re:Getting it is easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You have angered our god. our god is a feirce and vengful god. Our god is an Indian, who turns into a wolf..

  4. How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer? by tshak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 Funny

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  5. And Remember... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ticketmaster is the friendly monopoly, unlike other monopolies like Microsoft. Ticketmaster only adds tons of fees to the tickets you buy.

  6. Totally Offtopic - Building a Custom System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry this has nothing to do with the article but I'm going to custom build my next computer from components and I was wondering what sites people would recommend... thanks...

    1. Re:Totally Offtopic - Building a Custom System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      thanks for the tip, i'll be sure and check it out soon. now i'm off to send the address out to some friends and family of mine who've also been looking for a custom computer.

  7. Why would you get advice from Ticketmaster? by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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