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I make more money in one week with my full-service IT firm that you could imagine in one week of development. Don't even come in here saying that I have been l

by lemcoe9 14y ago

I make more money in one week with my full-service IT firm that you could imagine in one week of development. Don't even come in here saying that I have been living under a rock. I am the owner of my company, on the board with three more technology companies and also a director for a non-profit.

buster 14y ago
Probably all true, but based solely on this blog post i still wouldn't hire your IT service super company, blabla.. (to be clear, i have seen enough guys calling themselves CEO of a one man limited or whatever, i don't care for titles or how you are on "the board" of three firms, i'm a tech guy, not someone that is impressed by titles or certificates.). Edit: Still kudos to you, for running a business at that age, respect for that!
- xauronx 14y ago
  I doubt he, or I for that matter, would want to do work for you anyhow, so there's that as well. There are those who don't gauge the quality of a product by the number of buzz words the technology stack contains. You should re-evaluate your techno-elitism for your own sake.
  - buster 14y ago
    It's nothing to do with techno-elitism, it's to do with the fact that, as an engineer, the most important skill you need to have is to know the right tool for the right job. If you only know about a very limited subset, you're doing it wrong. There is nothing wrong with using PHP for the right job, or whatever else. You still should make an educated decision and not just use something because you don't know better. I give a damn about buzzwords and find many things very questionable when it comes to the latest and greatest in the interweb. Edit: In the end i feel like i have to justify my post more then i want to. It's not that i hate that guy or that i think he is a bad programmer or a bad person or whatever. I was just surprised to read that someone who has been coding PHP for 7 years never used an ORM. I imagine that most people that want to learn "web programming" start with a framework that includes an ORM. He surely has a big benefit over "competitors" who only know ORMs and never cared about the underlying SQL. That's surely not good as well.
metaphorm 14y ago
those are great accomplishments, but I still wouldn't hire you to do web development at my company. Kudos for expanding your horizons though. Hope everything goes well for you.
Kudos 14y ago
Your blog post was about a technical skill, bragging about your non-technical skills is not a rebuttal.

by lemcoe9 14y ago

buster 14y ago

Probably all true, but based solely on this blog post i still wouldn't hire your IT service super company, blabla.. (to be clear, i have seen enough guys calling themselves CEO of a one man limited or whatever, i don't care for titles or how you are on "the board" of three firms, i'm a tech guy, not someone that is impressed by titles or certificates.). Edit: Still kudos to you, for running a business at that age, respect for that!

xauronx 14y ago
I doubt he, or I for that matter, would want to do work for you anyhow, so there's that as well. There are those who don't gauge the quality of a product by the number of buzz words the technology stack contains. You should re-evaluate your techno-elitism for your own sake.
- buster 14y ago
  It's nothing to do with techno-elitism, it's to do with the fact that, as an engineer, the most important skill you need to have is to know the right tool for the right job. If you only know about a very limited subset, you're doing it wrong. There is nothing wrong with using PHP for the right job, or whatever else. You still should make an educated decision and not just use something because you don't know better. I give a damn about buzzwords and find many things very questionable when it comes to the latest and greatest in the interweb. Edit: In the end i feel like i have to justify my post more then i want to. It's not that i hate that guy or that i think he is a bad programmer or a bad person or whatever. I was just surprised to read that someone who has been coding PHP for 7 years never used an ORM. I imagine that most people that want to learn "web programming" start with a framework that includes an ORM. He surely has a big benefit over "competitors" who only know ORMs and never cared about the underlying SQL. That's surely not good as well.

metaphorm 14y ago

those are great accomplishments, but I still wouldn't hire you to do web development at my company. Kudos for expanding your horizons though. Hope everything goes well for you.

Kudos 14y ago

Your blog post was about a technical skill, bragging about your non-technical skills is not a rebuttal.