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With apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to work for them rather than the usual hiring is broken process of a top programmer looking for a job from indifferent programmers.

Here is the twist though; the programmers have to show that they really are top rock star programmers via their participation in Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow is going to use the process of community vetting of knowledge, skills, and the programmers ability to get difficult arcane programming ideas across to people who simply need the help. Employers will be able to browse the top programmers in the world and know they are the top programmers as well as their ability to communicate, document, and write, because of the interaction between community, sharing information on the web site, and the programmer th