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Linux Day Jobs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 12, 1999 @01:23AM from the all-those-lucky-guys dept.

jgalun sent us a ZDNet article about Linux Hackers going from the underground to Linux Day Jobs. They talk about VA Research, SGI, LinuxCare and assorted other companies that many of us lust for employment at. They don't mention BSI though *grin*.

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*Sigh* by Skyshadow · 1999-04-12 00:45 · Score: 3

This just goes to show that the folks who write about the tech culture generally still suffer from a serious lack of understanding.
In my experience, most folks who really know their stuff tech-wise (aka, not the MIS people) are the people who learned it by messing around with it, not by going to some training class. That's not to say college is useless, but the really impressive folks are the ones who learn a lot more than what's in the classes. Hell, I know CS majors who are graduating this year who've never seen a UNIX prompt (don't worry, I have an A-6 with a full load of napalm on standby; I'll hit 'em on their way down the isle at graduation).

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Tech support rules! by heroine · 1999-04-12 05:32 · Score: 2

Looks like it's not coding but telephone skills that are in demand for Linux coders. The comment on coming out of the closet did clear things up. I always wondered why interviews seemed to go downhill after the L word leaked out. "Lin what? Oh you're a (cough) cracker jacker" I won't do that anymore.