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Nov 1, 2005, 12:46am

Now, Mark. Don't get all in a snit because you were quickly dismissed as
a potential employee.

One thing you are not (nor have ever been, to my recollection) is
modest. Nor are you a bad coder. To the contrary, you are one of the
best with the AW SDK. This has never been in dispute.

However, this does not mean that you are valuable to me as an employee.
The same bad attitude that makes you stand out here at the forum is the
one that will make you a severe liability in the job market and to me,
as your potential employer.

Your "evidence collected thus far"? What, exactly, do do you mean, Mark?
Since you do not have access to our email inbox, are we to assume that
you're inferring -- since we have not chosen YOU above all others --
that we're now "screwed" ... as you so eloquently stated in your email
to us?

free world
You bet! We've got it like that. :)

Indeed! We would like the very best of the best in bots. This includes
having some (not all) of the features present in the AW community's
presently used bots. Are you inferring that what we are doing -- wanting
to improve upon the already existing bots -- is a bad thing? How strange!

Exactly! This is the true measure of a coder's ability to create an
application for today's user base ... "ease of use". Not everyone is a
coder, and we're smart enough to realize that our users will not be
coders, either. This is why, if we were to tally up the numbers, we
would find that of all of the existing bots, the Preston bot far
outshines the Xelagot or the Magsbot in number of downloads! It's
probably due to that sneaky little element ... "ease of use"!

On the contrary! We know that our best hope for a reasonably-priced,
talented coder lies in AWs already-existing, "student" population. We
currently have two coders in our employ, both of them still in high
school! The only student we've dismissed thus far as a potential lead
coder is you, Mark.

When we first opened the job, we opted to post publicly and give all of
the AW coding community an opportunity to comment and bid, even though
you, specifically, were someone we had our doubts about. After just 2
days, you eliminated yourself from the possibilities, not based on your
purported coding skills (which, we're hear are exemplary), but, based
solely on your poor attitude and unwillingness to see anything past your
own self as having any importance or worth. We are building a TEAM, and,
we think it unwise to hire someone who -- from the very outset -- is
showing themselves to be so very unwilling to play well with others.

We've received many, many emails from coders who are not nearly as
"expert" as you are with the AW SDK, but, I can assure you -- they stand
a much better chance of being hired, not only by us, but by the job
market in general, based upon their overall demeanor.

warey of your motives as there is no apparent logic behind them that any
of us can see...

*shrug* Feel free to think what you wish. We are exactly what we present
ourselves to be, no more, no less. Time and our actions will tell the
tale. We have no agenda, aside from that which we have already stated.

We want to hire exceptional coders to build an exceptional bot.

Feel free to email if interested with comments, questions or resumes.

357730
357730 at programmer.net





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