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Not to mention that there's a grammatical error in the first sentence of the text on their front page - "Starling Software is currently dormant, as the principl
by ojbyrne 16y ago
Not to mention that there's a grammatical error in the first sentence of the text on their front page - "Starling Software is currently dormant, as the principles are both deeply involved in projects that grew out of it." So they fail on that component (communication skills).
- yaakov34 16y agoOh, they're bad at communication, all right, and not just because of some spelling error. Look at the description of their flagship product: http://www.starling-software.com/en/qam.html http://www.starling-software.com/en/qam.html What does it do? Who would use it? For what? I have absolutely no idea, and I don't think I'm the absolute dimmest light in the Christmas tree. They use totally general words like "component" without explaining what they mean to them in this context. A component could be an object which implements a specific API, or a set of files with version information attached, or whatever. I don't feel like I know anything about QAM after reading that page. And I don't feel like continuing to learn about it, either. Anyway, I do realize that Starling had nothing to do with submitting this to HN, but I still think they deserve some flameage for the general sense smugness and self-congratulation which one gets from their website, especially since those don't seem be backed up by any world-beating performance.
- run4yourlives 16y agoSpelling, not grammatical. (i.e. I think they meant "Principals")
- ojbyrne 16y agoI did mean that, but I'm not sure whether using the wrong homonym should be classified as a spelling or grammatical mistake. It's spelled correctly, but is the wrong word.
- run4yourlives 16y agoGood point. On review I think I agree with you. :-)
- anthonyb 16y agoI'd classify it as a spelling error, similar to to/too/two and their/they're. They know the word, but not the right letters to make it.
- colanderman 16y agoFor what it's worth it looks like Starling weren't the ones who wrote it: http://www.indiangeek.net/programmer-competency-matrix/ http://www.indiangeek.net/programmer-competency-matrix/ seems to be the original source as per other comments.