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This is one of the stupidest articles I've ever read. Any half decent programmer, regardless of his experience level (just graduated from college to veteran 60

by jxcole 15y ago

This is one of the stupidest articles I've ever read. Any half decent programmer, regardless of his experience level (just graduated from college to veteran 60 year old) can learn and be effective in programming a completely new language in one week (please note that when I say completely new I mean within the family of c-like languages). After one month, he'll have most of the libraries memorized. This author seems to believe that experience in programming essentially boils down to experience in a language. That a 10 year veteran java programmer will have to start over from scratch if they switch to programming in c#. Totally untrue. Experience in programming makes you better at design, project planning, professional relationships, and project delivery. None of these have anything to do with what language you use. Perhaps what he's trying to say is that if you are a terrible programmer with very low intelligence, your experience won't get you very far. And with that I agree. This author has done little but show he has low skill in the field, so it's unsurprising he finds his work to be below par.

barkingtoad 15y ago
You are absolutely correct. A good programmer with zero experience in a platform, is a better hire than an average programmer with 10 years of experience in a platform. HOWEVER, the job market does not know this AT ALL and ONLY hires on the basis of platform experience. Actual managers of programmers may understand, but their HR department incompetency filter is ONLY going on the basis of keywords in the resumes. It's terrible. If you create a resume with the right keywords[1], in the most desirable techs, and put it up on job boards on Monday, you will get hits on Tuesday, even if your prior job title was "Senior Child Rapist" and your previous employer was the Penn State Football Program.[2] . [1]And they have to match precisely. I was recently told I could not be an Oracle Linux sysadmin, since I only had experience in CENTOS and Red Hat EL. (They are all identical.) [2]no disrespect PSUers, I just needed a funny example

by jxcole 15y ago

barkingtoad 15y ago

You are absolutely correct. A good programmer with zero experience in a platform, is a better hire than an average programmer with 10 years of experience in a platform. HOWEVER, the job market does not know this AT ALL and ONLY hires on the basis of platform experience. Actual managers of programmers may understand, but their HR department incompetency filter is ONLY going on the basis of keywords in the resumes. It's terrible. If you create a resume with the right keywords[1], in the most desirable techs, and put it up on job boards on Monday, you will get hits on Tuesday, even if your prior job title was "Senior Child Rapist" and your previous employer was the Penn State Football Program.[2] . [1]And they have to match precisely. I was recently told I could not be an Oracle Linux sysadmin, since I only had experience in CENTOS and Red Hat EL. (They are all identical.) [2]no disrespect PSUers, I just needed a funny example