Spotted by Chuckles at The Next Web:
The company, which is based in General Assembly, is specifically hiring Rubyists and hardcore databasers. So, what are the perks? First, you’ll get $2,000 in cash (for R&D), a full-year supply of Counter Culture Coffee, a local gym membership, an iPad 2 (for prototyping), an Iron Man 2 Deluxe Helmet, an unlimited supply of your favorite beer, a fixed gear bicycle and yes, a cow...
Aaaargh! And for high performers, maybe a grizzly bear or a rattlesnake or something? But wait, there's more...
How did you get the idea to donate a cow?
Seth Bannon: The goals of the cow and our other offerings are threefold: highlight our desire to promote the public good, demonstrate our company’s culture of fun, and grab people’s attention. If you get excited by the idea of having a dairy cow donated in your name to a family in the developing world, then you are the kind of developer we want to work with...
Right.
Does this maniac not realise that more people are killed by cows than by land mines?* Which reminds me, I haven't done the central European cow attack round-up for November yet.
* In Western countries, at least. Not sure what it's like for those poor sods in the 'developing' world.
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5 comments:
Alkathene pipe.
It's all you need.
Cows? This is worying.
Telegraph.
The throwaway last line is sinister.
"Neither the dog, which has not been identified, nor any ducks within range at the time of the accident, were injured. "
FT, voice of experience.
VFTS, ta, you don't get many cases of that.
D, and you're the sort of grumpy person whom they don't want to employ, so everybody's happy :-)
"Not sure what it's like for those poor sods in the 'developing' world." Ah, you do realise that as climate change intensifies, scientists say that cow attacks in the developing world will go off the scale, in line with other extreme nature events. Only partially offset, of course, by the fact that global warming will also cause cows and other large mammals to shrink considerably in physical size, making them somewhat easier to fight off.
AC, cattle aren't shrinking in size. For some reason or other, they were bred smaller and smaller over the centuries, and by the 1950's they were barely higher than waist height, then farmers started breeding them bigger again, more or less back to their original size. Growth hormones may have something to do with this as well. See also "Giant Nazi Cows".
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