Show HN: Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere

Yesterday my wife and I were discussing the UK vote on intervening in Syria. It is such a horrible plight for people trapped in the middle of this, that both options of going in or not going in are equally awful.<p>The conclusion was that we don&#x27;t know what the right answer is, but there must be some better way. We&#x27;ve got to stop thinking that military action is the only alternative.<p>We need to seriously do some bigger, different thinking. Possibly the UK granting opening it&#x27;s doors to anyone who wants to flee this hell? I don&#x27;t know.<p>Initiatives like Hire Programmers from Syria are a great start to thinking differently. I have no idea if it will be successful at achieving its goals or not, but I still applaud the effort.<p>Well done, and good luck.

Why are Syrian programmers the only ones worthy of help here?

And what about those who didn&#x27;t choose to have programming as a career?

help to make better situation there rather than.. displacing people from their country.

Thank you very much for this, I&#x27;m Syrian (programmer) and seeing this makes me feel really happy and grateful.<p>I know this could possibly be a life changer for a lot of Syrians (I will try as much as possible to spread it across my friends and colleagues are still alive there)<p>For a Syrian, living abroad means a lot, it means having basic human rights, equality, freedom of speech, and easy access to knowledge etc .. those privileges are taken for granted by most western people.<p>Unfortunately, We are victims of a geographic accident and we have to go through a harder way to have those privileges.

The idea here is apparently that there are people living in a war-torn country ruled by a murderous dictator who will gas his own people and the only reason they haven&#x27;t left is because they can&#x27;t find a good programming job. As if they&#x27;re sitting there on Monster.com as the bombs rain down, desperately refreshing for a job with benefits.<p>The degree of disconnection here from the reality of the situation in Syria is so enormous as to be insulting, even though that was not the intent.

Please consider making the font color higher contrast. Not everybody has a super bright LED display. It&#x27;s hard to read for me.

This is great, but I&#x27;ve been trying my very best to get hired in a decent web company in the US for the past year or so, and all my attempts have failed many times because of visa issues or that the company wasn&#x27;t interested in candidates from outside the US.

Israeli startups want to hire Syrians. Here are startups that are hiring: www.mappedinisrael.com

So... where are all the Syrian programmers? This website says none are available.

Emailing helpout@ failed permanently. Via your mail to link, just a heads up

The email on the website didn&#x27;t work.

AWESOME. Huge Kudos for that Matt !

We need this for every profession. Seriously, lets just take out all the civilians from a conflict and leave the place to those who willing choose to die for it.<p>Open all the borders. Revolutionary, radical, but consider the thought before you trash it.

Why only programmers? What are you, &quot;professioncist&quot;?