Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon May 6 04:11:57 CDT 2013
Don't just post them here. If they are that good, they need to be on http://thedailywtf.com/ It's one of my standard morning goto sites. I have a standard morning routine when I wake up. First thing I do is brew a plunger mug of PNG HIghlands coffee. While that is brewing, I load up my "Daily" bookmarks in Firefox and open the folders that all the DBAdvisors emails that you are guys write while I am asleep are automagically moved into in my mail client. Then I send an hour or so going through it all before I have a SSS&S and head off to the office or a client site. Daily WTF is one of the "Daily" bookmarks, along with The Register, Dilbert, XKCD and a few others. -- Stuart On 6 May 2013 at 0:41, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > I'd like to amend that statement to be "good programmers become wiser programmers as they get older." > > Over the last 2 months, I've been reviewing code samples for > candidates applying for a senior web developer position and, in many > instances, these so called experienced senior developers who have been > in this business for 10+ years have submitted some of the most > horrendous code that left me so completely stupefied that my only > reaction is to push my chair back and cover my face with both palms to > protect my sanity from the evils that were printed across my screen > (if you don't believe me, I'm happy to post code snippets). > > In fact, of all the code samples I've so far reviewed (30+ at this > point), only 2 have been more than fairly decent. The rest were so > laughably atrocious that it made me question how it is that the > Internet has not yet collapsed in on itself at this point. > > Experience, apparently, does not make all programmers better. Some > people really aren't cut out for this business. I'm not sure I'd even > hire them as juniors and yet they somehow manage to thrive. > > - Hans > > > On 2013-05-05, at 2:57 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > This may come as a total shocker to many but older programmer are wiser and > > therefore better that youngsters. > > > > The following study discovered that people actually learn as they age. A > > truly amazing revelations. > > > > http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/ > > > > Now try and convince some company to hire a programmer older than thirty, > > forty max...but will the old guys work day and night for next to nothing? > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >