Love this idea. I vote for this. Or maybe if anyone can actually edit the HN source and make the app self-post when it is first of every month (IMO keeping it automated will be easier...)
bigsassy's point about searching is right. It surely makes it easier to browse these threads when you have a dedicated whoishiring user account.
Whoever is posting this, please mention the format of the job posts clearly on every thread (whatever format... this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704 says location first. It's description is a good example).
Ya, after posting the comment I started wondering about the worst case - what if the person who owns the account forgets to post coz he's busy or even worse... is dead. We'll end up creating accounts like whoishiring1, whoishiring2, etc which totally beats the advantage of being able to keep the hiring threads in one place.
I finished the Racket-lang intro guide today. I thought I could pitch-in with some code by adding the automated post feature to news.arc (in arc3) and sending a diff. Sadly news.arc is 2610 lines of lisp in one file. Scared me :)
He doesn't intend on sharing the password, he intends on doing the posts himself every month. Perhaps he could have phrased it better as, "Can we all agree that Who's Hiring posts will only be made by this account?"
bigsassy's point about searching is right. It surely makes it easier to browse these threads when you have a dedicated whoishiring user account.
Whoever is posting this, please mention the format of the job posts clearly on every thread (whatever format... this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704 says location first. It's description is a good example).