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2011-09-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:37 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: We have to then solve a problem to having a common understanding of what's fine and what's not. python is fine - non python is not fine. Lighthearted banter is fine. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:38 +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: Please, love your language etc, but let us give the impression that we are not a bunch of amateur kids here, but professionals who are ready to give a bit of space for others to live amongst us. I made the mistake of telling

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:39 +0530, hemant wrote: - Does it have [JOB] or something in subject, so as people can steer clear if they want? - Does it exactly say, what the requirements are and for which company? - Does it mention location? - It should not sound phony. If a job posting

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2011-09-14 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 13-Sep-2011, at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: FWIW, I didn't have an opinion on the OT job posting because I didn't read it. But I must add that, it would be hypocritical to *not* poke fun at companies, especially bumbling, incompetent, soon to be extinct lumbering dinosaurs, (that don't

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2011-09-14 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: +1. Censoring opinion does no one any good. I'm with Noufal and Roshan on this thread. Public criticism can help companies get unstuck *really fast*, as I learnt about Y! last month in a separate incident. If, as in

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2011-09-14 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@gmail.comwrote: +1 Trillion to Roshan (of which a few Billions are just for the style). Roshan is otherwise known as as 'Wally' ...Scott Adams inspiration. Hic! -V ___ BangPypers mailing

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2011-09-14 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 05:30:04PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: On 13-Sep-2011, at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: FWIW, I didn't have an opinion on the OT job posting because I didn't read it. But I must add that, it would be hypocritical to *not* poke fun at companies, especially

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2011-09-13 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Lokesh, This post has nothing to do with Python. Why are you sending it to a Python list? [...] I hear that they have an opening for a CEO. Maybe that person could introduce Python to Y! Regards, Gora

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2011-09-13 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: I hear that they have an opening for a CEO. Maybe that person could introduce Python to Y! Too late, last I heard the Y! board was trying to rope in Homer Jay Simpson for the position. regards -- Ramakrishna Reddy       

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2011-09-13 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Guys, Let's keep it technical, they seem to look for perl guys and perhaps a python developers are useful for them too. Of course, any good company would think that good python programmers can be good (any language) programmers too. AFAIK, Y! is one such. -- Senthil On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at

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2011-09-13 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 13 September 2011 12:31, Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com wrote: Guys, Let's keep it technical, they seem to look for perl guys and perhaps a python developers are useful for them too. Of course, any good company would think that good python programmers can be good (any language)

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2011-09-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:45 +0530, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: Let's keep it technical, they seem to look for perl guys and perhaps a python developers are useful for them too. Of course, any good company would think that good python programmers can be good (any language) programmers

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2011-09-13 Thread keshava M
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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com writes: Guys, Let's keep it technical, they seem to look for perl guys and perhaps a python developers are useful for them too. Of course, any good company would think that good python programmers can be good (any language) programmers too. AFAIK, Y! is

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2011-09-13 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Let's keep it technical, they seem to look for perl guys and perhaps a python developers are useful for them too.  Of course, any good company would think that good python programmers can be good (any language) programmers

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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com writes: [...] I agree that the email was misdirected and I had no issues with your first question how it it was related with Python. Would have waited for the OP to answer. But that does not mean that we talk about business and ridicule a company. That

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2011-09-13 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
To put the matter straight, Lokesh works in TA at Y! and he had asked my help to post an opening in the list. I mentioned that this is a Python list, but scripting languages like Perl, Python etc do have a lot of similarities (Ask me, I am a Python coder at heart but right now my bread is

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2011-09-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Sudheer Satyanarayana sudhee...@sudheer.net wrote: To put the matter straight, Lokesh works in TA at Y! and he had asked my help to post an opening in the list. I mentioned that this is a Python list, but scripting languages like Perl, Python etc do have a

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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com writes: [...] Cut the heat. IMHO it was a problem with the wording of the posting by the OP. If he had been more diplomatic and sugar-coated his posting, most of you would have remained silent. Not me. I might have worded my response differently

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2011-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Anand Balachandran Pillai abpil...@gmail.com writes: [...] Cut the heat. IMHO it was a problem with the wording of the posting by the OP. If he had been more diplomatic and sugar-coated his posting, most of you would

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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com writes: [...] I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I work with) on this very mailing list. Agreed but that is a separate issue. However, that doesn't

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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Perhaps I'm being more vocal about this than is appropriate. I hold generally unpopular opinions about the relationship between corporate entities and free software/open source communities. That's probably where the bile comes from. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in Honk if you are against

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2011-09-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.comwrote: I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I work with) on this very mailing list. I didn't see any apology then by the

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2011-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com writes: [...] I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I work with) on this very

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2011-09-13 Thread hemant
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com writes: [...] I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I work with) on this very

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2011-09-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com writes: [...] It appears to me that Anand Pillai was fine with such a post, and you're not, and there's some clarity needed on what's acceptable and what's not, and the rationale for what ever consensus we arrive at. [...] I don't agree with Anand on

[BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-13 Thread Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Gentlemen, Python is so easy (read beginner-friendly), that its not worth mentioning in skills. People don't ask for the ability to arrange A to Z in ascending order for a communication job. Its only the cryptic languages (read Java or other languages that you guys hate and was mentioned in the

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2011-09-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 18:37, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com writes: I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I work with) on this very mailing list.

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2011-09-13 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
Noufal has already replied to this. My response is to those parts that weren't addressed. Cut the heat. Sorry? I do not understand what heat you are referring to. IMHO it was a problem with the wording of the posting by the OP. If he had been more diplomatic and sugar-coated his posting,

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2011-09-13 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
On Tuesday 13 September 2011 06:28 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Perhaps I'm being more vocal about this than is appropriate. I hold generally unpopular opinions about the relationship between corporate entities and free software/open source communities. That's probably where the bile comes from.

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2011-09-13 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 18:37, Sriram Narayanan sriram...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, I didn't have an opinion on the OT job posting because I didn't read it.  But I must add that, it would be hypocritical to *not* poke

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2011-09-12 Thread Lokesh L
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2011-09-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Lokesh, This post has nothing to do with Python. Why are you sending it to a Python list? Lokesh L loksm...@yahoo.com writes: Hi,   I would like to introduce myself as Lokesh from Talent Acquisation - Yahoo!   Yahoo! is the premier digital media company. We deliver your world, your way