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It worries me that so many of us want to jump to this kids defence. He's right, you shouldn't hire him because a developer who can't ship is a developer nobody
by ownagefool 13y ago
It worries me that so many of us want to jump to this kids defence. He's right, you shouldn't hire him because a developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs.
- addflip 13y agoHe's a junior developer. Give the kid a break. You were there at some point.
- nthj 13y agoFor sure, we all were. I did have to chuckle at the Technical Director in the sidebar, though. I'm pretty sure the qualification for technical director [should] include shipping > 0 products.
- socialherp 13y agoWelcome to the new hackernews. Everyone is a dev, scratch that, sr. dev. Wrote ten lines of hipster.js? Now your a js guru. Oh, and a perfectionist, your code is now "perfect" for the sole reason you spent a lot of time on it... Your pissing up a rope, the non-programmers and marketing-social-media-hackers have ruined this site and are running amok in the comments downvoting everyone posting anything even close to honesty.
- pekk 13y agoA developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs. A developer who has shipped 0 things obviously can't ship. A developer who has shipped n+1 things isn't really different from one who has shipped n things. I mean, one product? That's not real experience. So, by induction, nobody needs any developers.
- ownagefool 13y agoY'all looking at this at a superficial level. Sure, we all need somewhere to learn, but most of us do this on personal projects, at school or on low paid gigs under superiors who'll kick our asses. I don't know many technical directors / lead developers who havn't shipped a single project and while some of you might call that "hustle" I call it lying.