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There must be an awful lot of money to be made by hiring slightly below average programmers and putting them to work doing not-especially-difficult tasks for a
by hugh3 16y ago
There must be an awful lot of money to be made by hiring slightly below average programmers and putting them to work doing not-especially-difficult tasks for a slightly-below-average salary. I'm tempted to start a company that does just that.
"Are you brilliant? Go do some cutting-edge work somewhere else then! We're doing some random Ruby-on-Rails database-based crap, it's not that difficult!"
- wyclif 16y ago"Are you a genius? Google, Facebook, and Apple beckon, but this company is for the rest of you."
- michaelochurch 16y agoUsing a "weird" language like Ruby on Rails is going to make it hard for you to hire below the 80th percentile. At the 40th, you're talking about people who learned one language in college and haven't learned a new one since then.