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Re: Finding WO people for startups
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Re: Finding WO people for startups


  • Subject: Re: Finding WO people for startups
  • From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:14:58 -0400

On 2011-09-26, at 1:05 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Jim Kinsey wrote:
>
>> The last time I did any interviewing for developers, we ended up with some devs who really did not want to engage with WO on any level, no matter how they came across in the interview. Years of complaining about WO, misusing it in ways which hurt the performance of the system (as the last remaining experienced WO developer I often ended up wading in to sort it out) and then blaming it on WO without having made the least attempt to learn it properly...
>
> Unfortunately, using WO doesn't make one a great programmer (^_^)  Misused, WO is just as awful as any other solution.  If anything, WO provides ample opportunity for misuse because there is so much of WO/Wonder to learn.
>
> Some devs just don't want to learn. They prefer to reinvent, poorly.

Agreed.

I don't know how many times I've heard the "this is stupid, just tell me how to get a jdbc connection" comment.

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