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IMHO the ColdFusion requirement is more likely to get you a failed enterprise guy instead of a hacker that actually enjoys the work.

by andr 18y ago

jmtame 18y ago
Yeahh.. probably true. I don't know of a single decent hacker who enjoys working with ColdFusion
- bprater 18y ago
  Don't be too hasty in judgment. My brother is a very good ColdFusion programmer. He got his start in the language because it was what I was programming with at the time. (Don't forget, around '99 when I got my start, there was Perl, ASP and Coldfusion as serious contenders.) I ask him, "Why don't you give PHP or Rails a whirl?" "No interest." And so he focuses his effort in refining his ColdFusion skillset. He does Ajax and does CSS design with the best of them.
  - jamongkad 18y ago
    I personally don't use ColdFusion but I guess there are some CF haters around these parts. I guess that why you were downmodded. But please as hackers we love certain bits of technology and swear by them or perhaps swear at them lol(PHP comes to mind). I understand you as my brother also loves the ActionScript family of languages. And does not have any interest learning anything else.
    - scorpioxy 18y ago
      It was probably downmodded because of the "no interest" in learning anything else. Any programmer worth his/her salt should be always learning newer technologies that might be useful to him/her. Having a favorite is different than not wanting to learn anything else.
  - swombat 18y ago
    Having "no interest" in learning other languages is a serious bad mark against your brother, I'm afraid. He might be a "very good" programmer, but he'll never be great - never be a "hacker", by pg's definition. I don't know any hacker who doesn't have an intense, irrepressible interest to learn new stuff - languages, frameworks, whatever. I also don't know a single hacker who hasn't learned well over half a dozen languages to a proficient level. And no, CSS and AJAX don't count (unless the Javascript is taken to a scary level). Sounds like your brother is a designer with some coding skills, not technical co-founder material.

IMHO the ColdFusion requirement is more likely to get you a failed enterprise guy instead of a hacker that actually enjoys the work.

by andr 18y ago

IMHO the ColdFusion requirement is more likely to get you a failed enterprise guy instead of a hacker that actually enjoys the work.

jmtame 18y ago

Yeahh.. probably true. I don't know of a single decent hacker who enjoys working with ColdFusion

bprater 18y ago
Don't be too hasty in judgment. My brother is a very good ColdFusion programmer. He got his start in the language because it was what I was programming with at the time. (Don't forget, around '99 when I got my start, there was Perl, ASP and Coldfusion as serious contenders.) I ask him, "Why don't you give PHP or Rails a whirl?" "No interest." And so he focuses his effort in refining his ColdFusion skillset. He does Ajax and does CSS design with the best of them.
- jamongkad 18y ago
  I personally don't use ColdFusion but I guess there are some CF haters around these parts. I guess that why you were downmodded. But please as hackers we love certain bits of technology and swear by them or perhaps swear at them lol(PHP comes to mind). I understand you as my brother also loves the ActionScript family of languages. And does not have any interest learning anything else.
  - scorpioxy 18y ago
    It was probably downmodded because of the "no interest" in learning anything else. Any programmer worth his/her salt should be always learning newer technologies that might be useful to him/her. Having a favorite is different than not wanting to learn anything else.
- swombat 18y ago
  Having "no interest" in learning other languages is a serious bad mark against your brother, I'm afraid. He might be a "very good" programmer, but he'll never be great - never be a "hacker", by pg's definition. I don't know any hacker who doesn't have an intense, irrepressible interest to learn new stuff - languages, frameworks, whatever. I also don't know a single hacker who hasn't learned well over half a dozen languages to a proficient level. And no, CSS and AJAX don't count (unless the Javascript is taken to a scary level). Sounds like your brother is a designer with some coding skills, not technical co-founder material.