Re: Finding WO people for startups
Re: Finding WO people for startups
- Subject: Re: Finding WO people for startups
- From: David Holt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:22:02 -0700
On 2011-09-26, at 10:19 AM, Paul Yu wrote:
> Great programmers will always write great code.
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> Great programmers will write great code faster with great tools.
Then there's that class of programmers that write great tools, THEN write great code with them :-)
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> Bad programmers will always complain that it is not them, but the tools fault.
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> Bad Managers will trump them all...
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> On Sep 26, 2011, at 1:14 PM, David LeBer wrote:
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>> On 2011-09-26, at 1:05 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
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>>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Jim Kinsey wrote:
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>>>> 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...
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>>> 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.
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>>> Some devs just don't want to learn. They prefer to reinvent, poorly.
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>> Agreed.
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>> 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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