I live a block away from the Craigslist office (which is, yes, in a normal-looking house/storefront with a charmingly ugly sign above the door). I often walk past it during business hours, but the gate is always closed and locked.

I bumped into CEO Jim Buckmaster (a friend of mine) near the office, and I asked him about the locked gate. "We all work upstairs now," Jim said. "We had to keep the first floor locked up because people kept dropping in to say how much they love us."

Erlang and Lisp aren't exactly canonical examples of procedural programming languages.

This will be really useful for those of you who need to test your webapp on Safari, but only run windows. Actually, I'm probably the only one who does that.

Also, if you're going to develop a webapp for the iPhone, get it working on Safari and it will just work on the iPhone. So says Steve..

Shawn

Why aren't there comments on the job postings?

That's intentional. The companies used to submit links when they were hiring, and I've tried to reproduce that. They'll slide off the frontpage like any story. The site just looks odd at the moment because there was accumulated demand.

Oh god, this is HORRIBLE news. I would have preferred something like "Apple finally gives up on Safari"

Yick, your reaction is understandable. But know that the following is far more typical:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

...

if (Regex.IsMatch(s, sPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase))...

I fondly remember the joelonsoftware jobs section (back before it was a paid service) when he allowed comments...people really tore into some of the postings.

Please do add comments... I don't really like being snarky, but in lieu of comments I've added a post about one of the loopt jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310