All Programmers are not created equal
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All Programmers are not Created Equal[^]
(that is, 10x difference)
If that's the case then why aren't they getting paid 10x as much :confused: Have you ever had to work with one of those developers who had negative productivity? Most everything they wrote had to be redone and while they wrote it they required the assistance of other people thus taking up their time as well.
Todd Smith
A good programmer, on a good day, is ten times more productive than an average one. It's the managers job to make sure the programmer gas as many good days as possible.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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"If you were marooned on a island with the natives that are cannibals, and you had to program your way off the island, who would you want to be there to help you?" No one, because we would just argue about the best way to code ourselves off the island. :doh: Love programming, hate programmers. :)
I'd want the dumbest idiot I could find. The native could eat him first, giving me more time to code my escape.
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
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When we made the switch from pascal to C++, my boss wanted me to do this:
#define begin {
#define end }"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I did that to mess with my C++ teacher :P
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My favorite for C++ was:
#define private public
Todd Smith
I once saw this in a program #define ever (;;) It was then used in a for statement for ever{ ... }
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All Programmers are not Created Equal[^]
(that is, 10x difference)
If that's the case then why aren't they getting paid 10x as much :confused: Have you ever had to work with one of those developers who had negative productivity? Most everything they wrote had to be redone and while they wrote it they required the assistance of other people thus taking up their time as well.
Todd Smith
Maybe I'm in a bad mood (and I think that is the case) but that's a blog about absolutely nothing. You can say that about sandwich makers, barristas, wives, pilots, plumbers. Whoop! Whoop! Hey I've got one. The sky is blue! No seriously... go look!:-D
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When we made the switch from pascal to C++, my boss wanted me to do this:
#define begin {
#define end }"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Yeah, MACROs can be evil - that reminds me an amusing link: The Secret to Better C - Worse Than Failure[^]
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All Programmers are not Created Equal[^]
(that is, 10x difference)
If that's the case then why aren't they getting paid 10x as much :confused: Have you ever had to work with one of those developers who had negative productivity? Most everything they wrote had to be redone and while they wrote it they required the assistance of other people thus taking up their time as well.
Todd Smith
It happend to me once, but that developer got kicked out within two weeks. The project was trashed nonetheless, but the damages were kept within an acceptable range.
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A good programmer, on a good day, is ten times more productive than an average one. It's the managers job to make sure the programmer gas as many good days as possible.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
managers job to make sure the programmer gas ...
Guess they could supply free beans for lunch every day :)
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
I know I'm a better programmer than a lot of the people I've worked with
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Well, since I've never worked with Mr. Dunning or Mr. Kruger, I don't know what their code is like.
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Todd Smith wrote:
one of those developers who had negative productivity
Yes, I did. The guy actually created negative progress wherever he worked. His programming was so bad (crowd: "how bad was it?"), you didn't want to read it. You certainly didn't want to talk to him about it, because he could endlessly justify the ineptly Byzantine way he did things. Here's an example:
#define void int
That was to fix "a bug in the compiler" :wtf:.
Software Zen:
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