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Hmm…. Working from the title, the author won’t hire people who aren’t native language speakers? Last time I checked, different languages had different grammar
by jleyank 4y ago
Hmm…. Working from the title, the author won’t hire people who aren’t native language speakers? Last time I checked, different languages had different grammar and usage which makes it difficult for people to learn new ones. Anecdote: decades back, had a great coworker of Russian extraction. Hell of a time getting him to put articles in his documentation. Code was spot on, though.
- coldtea 4y agoYou can also be a great programmer or a great hardware technician (since we're talking about "iFixIt") and suck at grammar and/or spelling, even without having dyslexia. Perhaps you never cared for non-programming languages, and was bored at school when you were not programming... The author just has some prejudices and ossified criteria, and since they are in a position to judge people based on them, they do. Famously Einstein was a very bad speller, not just in English, but also in his native German. But according to this nitwit he wouldn't be smart enough to work at ifixit.
- automatic6131 4y agoEinstein probably would have made a bad software developer for ifixit. There are many companies who primarily do boring work and do not need brilliant minds, and what they need are merely competent minds in x domains. And I'm not surprised if that also includes native-level {language}.
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- pdevr 4y agoHe does provide for an exception for them[1]. [1] >Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin.