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This guy is quoted in Vice magazine throwing shade on Vertica, a database written by a Turing Award recipient and used in many demanding roles. Then he hired so
by thedance 7y ago
This guy is quoted in Vice magazine throwing shade on Vertica, a database written by a Turing Award recipient and used in many demanding roles. Then he hired some Starbucks prep cooks (literally, check LinkedIn) with no education and no industry experience and created a disaster. These events should replace whatever is currently in the literature as an example of the consequences of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
- wheelerwj 7y agoI really don't think its okay to be criticizing the job history of people. Everyone did something before they were a developer. You used to shit yourself daily, but we don't bring it up during code review. So i don't see how a previous position that lead towards being a developer is grounds for derogatory commentary.
- thedance 7y agoYou can teach anybody to do anything. It isn't the fault of the employees at this company that they ended up here. The failure in this case is the CEO's. It was their hubris to think they could found a company with no skilled labor whatsoever and produce a better solution than the legendary giants of our field.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoIt's Ok to have new / inexperienced devs on the team. In fact it's good for the industry to bring them in. The problems come about when there are _nothing but_ inexperienced devs on the team.