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I doubt if there was any other case than the controversy. I doubt that the dev was any where incompetent. I say this simply because of the dev's interest in att

by xoail 14y ago

I doubt if there was any other case than the controversy. I doubt that the dev was any where incompetent. I say this simply because of the dev's interest in attending a conference and his company sponsoring it to him using forking and dongles in a sentence... those are simply good signals of a good developer and he being happy at his job. I feel that Pay Haven responded in a most defensive way by simply firing him and getting it out of their shoulders.

redthrowaway 14y ago
It may well be the case that the controversy was the only factor in his termination, but none of us have the requisite information to confidently make that claim.
niggler 14y ago
" him using forking and dongles in a sentence... those are simply good signals of a good developer" Pray tell, how does a plebeian joke about dongles signal that a developer is good? "dev's interest in attending a conference and his company sponsoring it" And as for his presence, it's not uncommon for a company to send a key developer and a friendly coworker to conferences, especially when it is far away (so he may just have been a friendly coworker of Andy Reid)
- rdtsc 14y ago
  > Pray tell I will testify, brother. ;-) It think what the gp post was saying is that usually (in most companies) developers who are not very good or are not pulling their weight, are not sent to conferences. What is the freaking reason to send someone to a conference to learn and bring new ideas if they are about to be sent out of the door? I don't know about friendly coworkers. Maybe other companies do that, we don't. In my experience it is not about friendliness but about who deserves to go and who is passionate about programming. And, yeah, I agree, I don't see any correlation between him making dongle jokes or being or not being a good programmer.
- Draco6slayer 14y ago
  I would say that using technical terms in a joking way is definitely a sign of enjoying one's job, and enjoying one's job is definitely a significant data point as to gauging whether one is good at it. If you can talk about your job without criticizing it and laugh, I would say you enjoy what you do and therefore that you do it well.

by xoail 14y ago

redthrowaway 14y ago

It may well be the case that the controversy was the only factor in his termination, but none of us have the requisite information to confidently make that claim.

niggler 14y ago

" him using forking and dongles in a sentence... those are simply good signals of a good developer" Pray tell, how does a plebeian joke about dongles signal that a developer is good? "dev's interest in attending a conference and his company sponsoring it" And as for his presence, it's not uncommon for a company to send a key developer and a friendly coworker to conferences, especially when it is far away (so he may just have been a friendly coworker of Andy Reid)

rdtsc 14y ago
> Pray tell I will testify, brother. ;-) It think what the gp post was saying is that usually (in most companies) developers who are not very good or are not pulling their weight, are not sent to conferences. What is the freaking reason to send someone to a conference to learn and bring new ideas if they are about to be sent out of the door? I don't know about friendly coworkers. Maybe other companies do that, we don't. In my experience it is not about friendliness but about who deserves to go and who is passionate about programming. And, yeah, I agree, I don't see any correlation between him making dongle jokes or being or not being a good programmer.
Draco6slayer 14y ago
I would say that using technical terms in a joking way is definitely a sign of enjoying one's job, and enjoying one's job is definitely a significant data point as to gauging whether one is good at it. If you can talk about your job without criticizing it and laugh, I would say you enjoy what you do and therefore that you do it well.