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Playing devil's advocate here. If there are two kinds of great programmers, those that can handle programming in a stressful situation and those that cannot. Gi
by wmkn 12y ago
Playing devil's advocate here. If there are two kinds of great programmers, those that can handle programming in a stressful situation and those that cannot. Given a choice I would want to hire the one that can handle the stress.
- spiralpolitik 12y agoThis would hold if programming was done using a whiteboard. Luckily it is not.
- DanBC 12y agoWhy? You have a duty to protect your employees from harm in the workplace and this includes protecting them from stress.
- kasey_junk 12y ago> If there are two kinds of great programmers There aren't. If there were, they wouldn't be split on the axis of "programming in a stressful situation". Even in development environments where front line stress can be a part of the job, its not full time, and the good developers work on 1) reducing the amount of time the organization spends in those modes and 2) removing human performance from the triage out of those modes. The reason for that is that under stress performance is not actually repeatable. Everyone breaks eventually and pushing the eventually back is not a cost effective way to mitigate the risks.