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by nickelplate 17y ago
I would probably hire Jon Skeet. Of course, I would probably still hire him even if he wasn't on StackOverflow.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
I read it as an honest criticism of the sales pitch for a product, and not really as an opinion about Joel's writing. He did make some good points.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
Damn. I just reread your original post and now I feel stupid. slaps forehead
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by nickelplate 17y ago
He is also warning that their perspective can be misleading. Like saying that Stack Overflow participants are the best developers on the planet, for example.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
What's wrong with using C++ in 2009?
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by nickelplate 17y ago
"and some people will screen you for NOT sending a .DOC" Yeah I do think that is equally stupid as well. To me doc, pdf, text or even odf is fair game.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
"* pdf, text, or webpage: no .doc" I personally think this is being overly picky, but as long as you make it clear that you only accept resumes in these formats there is no problem. I once sent a cold job application to a company that had
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by nickelplate 17y ago
Some people are plenty mentally stimulated at work and don't feel the need to work on their own projects in their spare time. And sometimes your professional accomplishments are significant enough that a side project is not likely to make y
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by nickelplate 17y ago
"He babysits twice a month" Really? That's pretty damn cool.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
I don't think many people would object to that. I think the objection is that being a regular on SO does not demonstrate that one is serious about learning their craft. At least not anymore than someone hanging out on LtU, or GDnet, etc. Th
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by nickelplate 17y ago
Probably not many, but I don't think that is necessary. He just has to show us a convincing list of projects (e), and demonstrate how these projects improved with the introduction of TDD, WITHOUT blurring the line between TDD and unit testi
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by nickelplate 17y ago
What I find most irritating is that the TDD or other methodology zealots usually cannot point to a success of exactly the sort people like jwz or Joel have been influential in shipping. There also seems to be a tendency among these people t
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by nickelplate 17y ago
You rock.
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by nickelplate 17y ago
CityDesk has been abandonned for a long time now. That said having an established competition is not necessarily a good reason to avoid a product space altogether. After all, FogBugz, which seems immensely successful and has been Fog Creek'
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by nickelplate 17y ago
"However, I make a big distinction between organizational and technical deficiencies." I make that distinction too. One of my previous employers scored a 4 or 5 on the Joel test, but the work was extremely interesting, the technical staff w
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by nickelplate 17y ago
One important thing is to find out during the interview whether the company has a plan and they are not just hiring you to perform monotonous, undemanding tasks. They should be able to tell you what upcoming projects you are most likely to
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Re: All Programming is Web Programming(michaelbraude.com)
1 points by nickelplate 17y ago|0 comments
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by nickelplate 17y ago
People like to say that the web is replacing the desktop, but is this really the case? When I look at the web applications I use on a regular basis (Amazon, craigslist, LinkedIn...) I cannot think of a desktop app they have displaced. I can
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by nickelplate 17y ago
Toronto, ON, Canada.