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by mduerksen 16y ago
It all boils down to this: What you can measure, you can pay. A company's increase in revenue can be measured, and that's what top managers get paid for. Measuring the performance of a programmer is very hard and blurry even for great hacke
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by mduerksen 16y ago
I agree. It's exactly that question (promise vs. delivery and costs) which should be thoroughly explored before utilizing any technology that is advocated. That's the only way to not fall for a hollow hype.
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by mduerksen 16y ago
My point wasn't that it's not useful to be able to program. A lot of things are useful and pervasive (like motors), but being able to read is just uncomparably more important. The article claims that it has the same degree of importance,
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by mduerksen 16y ago
I think the suggested reaons for the importance of equal gender distribution of software developer are exaggerated. Not being able to code is by far not as severe as not being able to write and read. Literacy enables you to take part in soc
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by mduerksen 16y ago
If rockstar programmer equals top performer, then I must say the term is both blurry and misleading. Well, I think I'll have to translate it on the fly whenever it appears, and I will not use it until it hopefully wears off as time goes by
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by mduerksen 16y ago
Fearlessness of being controversial could indeed be a good charactistic of both a rockstar and a programmer who wants to make a difference. Yet, I can't image that's the quality a company is looking for when they search for a rockstar progr
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by mduerksen 16y ago
Sounds like a great person to work with ;) That said, maybe there is some truth to that: Programmers often don't get the recognition and/or salary they feel they deserve. Maybe the "rockstar" expresses the wish to get more appreciation and
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What is a Rockstar Programmer?
6 points by mduerksen 16y ago|13 comments