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Stupid people don't tend to make very good programmers, no matter how industrious they are.
by rgrove 17y ago
Stupid people don't tend to make very good programmers, no matter how industrious they are.
- diN0bot 17y agoranking people based on their roles in a company is a poor perspective. respecting everyone and not putting them in tidy (and possibly insulting) boxes is a better perspective.
- dunstad 17y agoRanking people has nothing to do with the people themselves. It's supposed to make the company more efficient.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoStupid and lazy people are just a drain on your company. But stupid and industrious people are far more dangerous, they may put in enough work to produce value but it may come at an even greater cost in technical debt. To quote from this Glenn Vanderberg blog post: http://www.vanderburg.org/Blog/Software/Development/sharp_and_blunt.rdoc http://www.vanderburg.org/Blog/Software/Development/sharp_an... "Weak developers will move heaven and earth to do the wrong thing. You can’t limit the damage they do by locking up the sharp tools. They’ll just swing the blunt tools harder."