Recruiter spam ^

(edit) This is "Who's hiring" thread and it has always been a place for companies to post their own direct-hire positions. Allow recruitment agency postings and both the quality and the value of these threads very quickly go down the drain. I realize that you mean well, but that's not the thread for your ads unless you are willing to disclose the name of the companies you are proxying.

If it helps, I'm a real hacker :) Here's some of my open-source code: https://github.com/Ovid

Here's some more of my open-source code: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/

Here's my tech blog where I give advice to other hackers: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/

I'm a hacker trying to help other hackers live their dreams and I give freely back to the community.

> This is "Who's hiring" thread and it has always been a place for companies to post their own direct-hire positions.

I realize that you disagree with recruiters being here. The lead paragraph for the "Who is Hiring" threads says the following:

> Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

I've never seen anything which states "no recruiters". We specifically looked for that because we didn't want to violate any TOS or alienate those we are trying to help.

I'm sorry you disagree with how we've handled this, but we honestly do try to help people live anywhere in the world. The fact that I've also been writing a blog helping people do this for years should help back that up.

When candidates contact us with their CV and express an interest in the jobs, we immediately tell them who is hiring and why. It's hard enough for those who dream of living abroad to find companies willing to help them. Why restrict their opportunities?

> If it helps, I'm a real hacker :)

Yes, you have "Perl" in your profile, but it doesn't matter, sorry.

> Why restrict their opportunities?

To not set a precedent for other recruiters. This thread will snowball into an utter dump once more recruiters get a whiff it. And posts like yours set up the stage just for that.

Have you even seen the list of contributions and modules he has?? That is way different of just having "Perl" in his profile.

About the snowball of utter dump... that's what downvotes are for.

Being offered a job through one of Ovid's previous Who's Hiring posts, I would say it did not seem to me like going through your normal agency routine. So, +1 from me aswell.

BTW, he wrote this too: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781118013847/ Know any other recruiters that do that ? :)

My vote is Ovid gets a pass. Been learning from his Perl posts for 10+ years.