Once or twice a week, I get an email from a recruiter looking to hire a Ruby developer. I can spot these within the first half a sentence, and delete them without reading the rest. Obviously they got my name someplace and didn’t stop to notice that I’m the founder of VC-backed startup and am by no means looking for employment. I suspect that most other Rubyists get the same sort of emails, and the better known you are, the more you get.

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