Story: Ten traits to look for when hiring a programmer
Not bad but one sided
Not a bad text, looking for the perfect worker forgetting the reality.
I would, as a programmer since 68 add a few things.
The ability to use ten finger input and the ability to face stress.
Fast input, such a simple task, after all, I would demand from anyone programmer today.
The ability to face stress is a no brainer too.
However, I think you are much too concentrated on what to demand from programmers, forgetting totally that programmers and programming may have demands on "you" too.
It is hardly surprising that good programmers are more drawn to work in surroundings, like open sorce, where the reality is not run bye idiots, like in most so called IT companies, to day.
The most typical stupidity is that all time shedules are based, not on reality, but on whistfull thinking, like perhaps, bye people like you who are totally unaware of the reality. ( I could be wrong on your part, ofcousre.)
The second most typical problem is that programmers are put to work in a surrounding that is not fit for programming. Large noisy open spaces where stupid people keep walking about. Think Railway stations.
For your next article on programming, try perhaps, to understand a bit about the working conditions, and the fact that the programmer, in most cases, is the one who will have to face all the stupidity and tress you have forced upon him.
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