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Maybe it's a cunning plan to avoid being contacted by certain people, but I've known plenty of people who would be put off by seeing "laziness" listed as one of
by corin_ 14y ago
Maybe it's a cunning plan to avoid being contacted by certain people, but I've known plenty of people who would be put off by seeing "laziness" listed as one of your traits.
- Udo 14y agoNot necessarily. The right kind of laziness in a software engineer can facilitate the creation of a lot of automation and very simple code that doesn't cause a lot of work. In the right context, laziness can be a great quality.
- corin_ 14y agoI didn't say it was a bad thing - though personally I think that while the whole "if you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man" logic is flawed, there are people out there who aren't lazy but still capable of being efficient - just that there are some people out there who could well base a hiring decision on it.
- sitetechie 14y agoIt's a pun (and link to) threevirtues.com, I was hoping to connect should people recognize this, but you might be right in that it's too negative a trait.
- corin_ 14y agoAh, didn't get the reference, nor notice the link. I'm not saying it's definitely something to avoid, maybe you only want to be hired to people who get the reference, or maybe you only want to be hired by people who, without getting the reference, don't instantly think "lazy = terrible!" (I fall into the latter camp).
- jmcarlin 14y agoLaziness is one of the three great virtues of a programmer according to Larry Wall. "Laziness" was used in the context of all three virtues: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
- sitetechie 14y agoYep, that's what I'm trying to convey.