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Interesting backstory: Back in 2002/03 myself and a couple of other regular visitors to JoS forums used to post jobs due to the fact that there were many interesting people that we would have liked to work with.

Joel sent out an email mentioning that posting jobs reduces the signal-to-noise on the forums -- he was right.

So, Simon Lucy (http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonlucy), another regular visitor to JoS sets up ijustheard.com for the forum visitors to post jobs. Here's the archive.org page for it (http://web.archive.org/web/20030219230747/http://www.ijusthe...); I think Simon shut it down in 2005 since it never did end up getting any traction, and interestingly Fog Creek makes a million $ out of it -- good for FC!



I don't think you were implying anything, but for what it's worth, Fog Creek is probably right; job ad posts always annoy me on forums.




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