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Posted April 26, 2011
UPDATE: A few of you made sad faces about the fact that GOG.com was looking only for Poland-based folks for our head of IT, because you thought you'd suit us right down to the ground even though you didn't live here. Your tears of sorrow have shown us the error of our ways. We're now opening up our application pool to anyone, so if your lifelong dream was to monkey with the servers at GOG.com, go ahead and send your C.V. and cover letter in!

[i]Note that anyone who gets hired for this position will still need to live in Warsaw for the actual work itself, so keep that in mind if you're chained to a post by your ankle and can't leave.

The constant growth of GOG.com's popularity, the bigger and bigger user base, and the need to keep our site and servers up and running at full speed requires our team to grow. We're all gamers here as you know and we're looking for people who share the same passion for good, old games, that's why we're posting this job offer here on GOG.com. If you have experience in managing information technology systems, live in Poland and you'd like to shape the glorious future of GOG.com and digital distribution, check out our job offer for Head of IT at GOG.com.
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Posted April 27, 2011
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Xaromir: Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Are you sure it's plugged in?
Finally someone quotes The IT Crowd! I really hope season 5 comes sooner than later :)
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: It could be, but I have a feeling it won't make much of a difference, except for DBs gurus.

I picked PostgreSQL, because it's slightly better integrated with the other technologies I am using, but I would have been just as happy to use MySQL had the situation been reversed.

They both support the features I need from an SQL DB.

I think what will really matter for most is that both DBs have an history and proven track record with many sizable web sites.
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Miaghstir: I seem to remember Gaia Online choosing PostgreSQL because MySQL was too slow - although that site is quite a bit larger than GOG.

Current stats for GO:
Who is Online? - 12744 users. (11080 visible, 1425 hidden, 239 guests).
Gaia has 1,922,736,872 articles posted with 24,432,166 registered users.
Most users ever online was 77,655 on Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:31 am
I do wonder how many of those 24 million are separate users? Additional accounts used to be very popular around there (for storing items, dressing up and such) if I'm not mistaken. ;)
And of course the spam bots with names like sjkdhkasjdhakh.
So, if 8 million users each created 2 additional accounts after creating their first one = 24 million. o____o
Why I am bringing that up I have no idea. xD
Posted April 27, 2011
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Chisaku: I do wonder how many of those 24 million are separate users? Additional accounts used to be very popular around there (for storing items, dressing up and such) if I'm not mistaken. ;)
And of course the spam bots with names like sjkdhkasjdhakh.
So, if 8 million users each created 2 additional accounts after creating their first one = 24 million. o____o
Why I am bringing that up I have no idea. xD
I don't dispute that, I had two accounts myself (still have, I guess, since I never bothered deleting them). More important, though, is the 12 thousand simultaneously logged-in accounts generating traffic to the databases and caches.
Post edited April 27, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted April 27, 2011
This is The Work of my Dreams. It's a pity that I'm based in Italy :(
Posted April 27, 2011
Guys, as you all are applying here, I hit on an idea (remembering Amazon's Mechanical Turk):
Why don't we all help GOG a little?
We could translate game cards, games/manuals (rights assumed), etc. In return we could get vouchers, points or the like.
GOG, what do you think?
Post edited April 27, 2011 by Pip-Boy
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: I'd love to prove you wrong, but truth be told, I'm a bit distant and aloof by choice.
Ain't that convenient, huh?;)
[Still, it was a joke, so..]
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: I'd love to prove you wrong, but truth be told, I'm a bit distant and aloof by choice.
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Arteveld: Ain't that convenient, huh?;)
[Still, it was a joke, so..]
Yes and a gross over generalization, but perhaps one that has a bit of truth to it.

I'm sure that if you gathered a large sample, you'd find a correlation here in your analysis.

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Pip-Boy: We could translate game cards, games/manuals (rights assumed), etc. In return we could get vouchers, points or the like.
Translating is hard work that require meticulous dedication.

Even if you are perfectly bilingual, that doesn't make you a competent translator.

If you can afford it (and they can), hiring a professional with the right accreditation is worth the money.
Posted April 27, 2011
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Pip-Boy: We could translate game cards, games/manuals (rights assumed), etc. In return we could get vouchers, points or the like.
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Magnitus: Translating is hard work that require meticulous dedication.

Even if you are perfectly bilingual, that doesn't make you a competent translator.

If you can afford it (and they can), hiring a professional with the right accreditation is worth the money.
Not only me would translate. The whole community would participate and contribute, like at Wikipedia.
Moreover, translation was only one example of what a community could contribute.
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: Translating is hard work that require meticulous dedication.

Even if you are perfectly bilingual, that doesn't make you a competent translator.

If you can afford it (and they can), hiring a professional with the right accreditation is worth the money.
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Pip-Boy: Not only me would translate. The whole community would participate and contribute, like at Wikipedia.
Moreover, translation was only one example of what a community could contribute.
A professional translator is a lot like a professional programmer.

An amateur will get 80% of it right, but you need a professional to polish the last 20%.

During my second work term at university, I had the privilege of working with an English to French translation student on her last year who translated the coop's website from English to French.

I'm bilingual with French being my mother language and my English being great, yet I doubt 20 of me could have done as good a job as she did.

I could do about 80% of it (and I did to save her some time as we only had her for 5 hours a week), but not the last 20% that distinguishes a professional website from an amateurish one. That needed to be done by her.
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: Yes and a gross over generalization, but perhaps one that has a bit of truth to it.

I'm sure that if you gathered a large sample, you'd find a correlation here in your analysis.
Sure, but that was still just a joke, a stereotypical one, IT Crowdish if You will. So smile and don't go all Spocky on me. Cheers!;)
Posted April 27, 2011
Id love to work for GOG. but I have no plans to move to Poland. Ill still take the free games though :)
Post edited April 27, 2011 by Death_Masta187
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: Yes and a gross over generalization, but perhaps one that has a bit of truth to it.

I'm sure that if you gathered a large sample, you'd find a correlation here in your analysis.
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Arteveld: Sure, but that was still just a joke, a stereotypical one, IT Crowdish if You will. So smile and don't go all Spocky on me. Cheers!;)
I'm not criticizing you or taking your comment badly.

If anything, I'm complimenting your joke as somewhat insightful.

Linux requires more "know how" than Windows and is more likely to appeal to the technical crowd which tends to be more introverted than the average.

My apologies if my analysis of your joke made you a bit uncomfortable, it was not my intent.
Post edited April 27, 2011 by Magnitus
Posted April 27, 2011
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Magnitus: I'm not criticizing you or taking your comment badly.

If anything, I'm complimenting your joke as somewhat insightful.

Linux requires more "know how" than Windows and is more likely to appeal to the technical crowd which tends to be more introverted than the average.

My apologies if my analysis of your joke made you a bit uncomfortable, it was not my intent.
Oh, no pro. Take it as proof that Windows users are a bit on the dumb side. ;P

Anyhow, i know 3 guys who might do do the job, except the part where they have to talk to people. Just close them in the cellar/attic and they'll do wonders. Any word of "talk to X" and they're gone. I wonder if there's still work for people who like closed space environments who do not use a phone. Damn 21st century.
Posted April 27, 2011
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Runehamster: And be prepared, I'm pretty sure that the interview process for any IT position includes eternity of playing through GOG's secret vault copies of Master of Orion 3 while standing, in Iron Man style, with no reloading.
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Rondel: Fixed.
That's not hard, it plays itself. Trying not to fall asleep is the only challenge.
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SLP2000: I can't see any discrimination in the requirement of 2 years of experience from a worker - it's like the difference between 18 yo and 20 yo.

Besides, in our country this is not the main topic, and even if it's discussed, it's rather about the discrimination of older people.
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trjp: Discrimination is discrimination - and when bureaucrats define legislation they will always avoid non-specific terms like 'older' because you might THINK you know what 'older' means - but you can't DEFINE it.

The legislation attempts to remove any age-related hurdle to finding a job - and that has to include specific periods of time and any question which gives away your age.

Asking for 'x years with y' never made sense anyway - it was, at best, an arbitrary number someone made up based on their own (limited) experience. Far better that a job ad explains the depth of skills and responsbility involved.
In the whole developed world years of experience in IT and software positions is used as one of the indicators of, you know, experience. There's only so much you're going to have had to deal with if you only have 1 year of experience doing something, and if the company knows their business, they may know their needs are more complex than that.

I suspect you're young and believe you can kick the world's ass right now, that's fine. But you've got a lot of years to do it, so don't stress about not getting "Senior" whatever in your first year or two. Even if you do, it won't mean much.
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Paul_cz: The "antidiscrimination" laws are so incredibly stupid it will never cease to amaze me.

Anyway, good luck GOG, I hope you will be able to find who you are looking for. Although the "must be in poland already" is kind of limiting the talent pool..
What this means is they're not paying your travel or relocation. If you want to get your arse over there for the interview and move yourself if you get the job, I'm sure they'll be plenty happy to have you.
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Magnitus: Oracle is more powerful if you need the bang, but if you don't, why pay the insane licensing fees?
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Smannesman: And you wouldn't be paying just the licensing fees, you'd also be paying for a very expensive administrator. Oracle guys don't come cheap.
And you have to pay to keep training them.
Post edited April 27, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted April 28, 2011
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Paul_cz: The "antidiscrimination" laws are so incredibly stupid it will never cease to amaze me.

Anyway, good luck GOG, I hope you will be able to find who you are looking for. Although the "must be in poland already" is kind of limiting the talent pool..
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pawelgr5: But still they can find someone really talented. It is not like in Poland we don't have specialist....gog was created by Polish people ;)
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