[KirinDave]

In the spirit of XKCD Explained:

Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software. He thinks those people are cool and he really likes how their time, effort and reputation on his site are something they can sell to recruiters for additional revenue. This is literally his dream come true.

[drp]

You're right. I wonder if this was part of the plan for stack overflow from the beginning. This is an ingenious way to monetize its existing user base while creating incentives for stack overflow users to keep creating valuable content for free.

[breck]

Speaking of, I wonder how many millions an open HN job board could make? The people I'd like to hire are stackoverflow, github, and HN users.

[3pt14159]

PG can we please do this? We're looking to hire 15+ people right now and we are running out of good people in Toronto.

[nuclear_eclipse]

If you're willing to work with telecommuters, I'm still looking for a job, with no luck, in the Cincinnati area...

[3pt14159]

Unfortunately, not yet. What type of work do you do though, I may know some people looking for someone with your skills. See my above comment for my email.

[Stasyan]

I am in Toronto. What exactly are you looking for ?

[3pt14159]

Tons of positions. Developers, DBAs, UX designers, design leads, sales, support, marketing managers, community leaders. Send me an email to [e-mail] or [e-mail]. I'll send you all the details, answer your questions, and make sure the CV gets sent around the dev team. If we end up hiring you (or anyone else out there in TO looking for work) I'll split the referral bounty (0 to $5k, depending on the position) 50-50 :)

[codexon]

It's possible, but people should note he already had a job board at jobs.joelonsoftware.com.

[brown9-2]

Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software.

I think you have this characterized a bit wrong - he thinks that people that use his website would make for good job candidates.

[reconbot]

Take that one step further and I might agree. People who have a high rank on "his website" might would make for good job candidates. Not all programmers may be good at communication or teaching, or any of the behaviors stack overflow, server fault promote. But I agree with the site's founders that they are positive skills to posses. It's not exactly hubris thinking that people active in a programming community might make for good job candidates.

[blasdel]

Yeah, I don't think even he wants to hire anyone managerial enough to love FogBugz for its own sake, much less anyone dull enough to use CityDesk.

[kristiandupont]

The tone of your post seems condescending - I really hope that the high number of upvotes is not simply a reflection of how popular is it to dislike Joel.

I think his post is straight forward - this is a neat way to do specific searches for programmers. Programmers who use SO might or might not be cool, but they are now searchable.

[KirinDave]

If my tone is condescending, that's because it is. Don't you know how XKCD Explained works? ;)

I find it supremely unsurprising that Joel has decided to sell the user info he collects at the website he helped create. He is exactly that kind of person, who wouldn't see anything wrong with that. After all, it's his website and the privacy policy is clear, right? (sigh)

But honestly, I don't dislike Joel. I just am irritated by his disproportionate popularity. The man's writing is solid, but his technical and managerial insights are at best mediocre. This is in sharp contrast to someone like Paul Graham, who not only has the writing capabilities but also the background of technical and social achievement to back it up.

[100k]

That isn't anywhere close to what Stack Overflow is doing.

This isn't selling user details from Stack Overflow (for which all the data is available for download, by the way: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...).

It's a separate service, the users of which have to pay to get listed. I'd say that indicates a pretty strong willingness to be contacted by employers.

[joe_the_user]

That's the story ... explained much the original article.

It's only a very, very roughly a programmer-search engine. It's much more an extension of the stackoverflow community.