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I can confirm. I worked with Chromatic at the consultancy he mentions; I developed the Python/wx app. He was a stand-up guy, a professional in an environment w
by dogweather 12y ago
I can confirm. I worked with Chromatic at the consultancy he mentions; I developed the Python/wx app.
He was a stand-up guy, a professional in an environment where most weren't. (It turned out that the company was already having trouble making payroll when they hired me.)
The perl dev group's focus on testing was impressive and very forward thinking. But at the same time, the Golden Hammer anti-pattern was evident to me: matching your tool to the client's problems, as opposed to placing the client's problems at the center of your focus.
I believe that my CS background helped me take that client- and problem-centered approach. And led me to create several proofs-of-concept in different languages before settling on Python/wx (largely unknown to us) as the best way to meet the project's requirements.
- eropple 12y agoIMO, it's not a CS background that does that. It's empathy, it's putting somebody else's concerns on the level of or even (gasp!) above your own, and that's in pretty short supply around here. Empathy is often confused for cheap populism--because populism is always cheap, I guess--and gets that middlebrow dismissal that's so common in tech.
- chromatic 12y agoIt's both. dogweather had the experience and breadth of skills to explore a range of solutions to find a good fit as well as the empathy to see things from the customer's point of view--not to mention the people skills to make his case so well.