Bountysource activity

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Fri Mar 14 10:51:29 PDT 2014


On 14 March 2014 15:05, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 3/14/14, 6:22 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some
>> programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing that can
>> possibly be done. But as far as I understand management is not yet ready
>> for such investment.
>
>
> Facebook is unique (for its size and impact) in that it doesn't hire for a
> team, project, or specific position. Instead, it hires for the generic
> position "Software Engineer". Once in, the company has a policy of high
> internal mobility that gives people a lot of leeway in what they work on.
>
> This means there's no guarantee one would work in or on D upon hiring. That
> said, since recently there are too many D internal projects for me to
> oversee so if anything I'm lacking headcount.
>


Try taking off your socks, I find that helps in counting *really high*
numbers. ;)


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