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To: Sea Otter who wrote (1980)	5/28/1998 3:27:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) of 3194

On Topic: Evanescent Success As far as this breaking into the big time goes, oh come now. You don't seem to have understood what everyone else knows so well. You expert programmers aren't worth two cents. You are creating junk that has a six months lifetime. During that period of time your clients go through hell while the big timers strut around blown up with their pretentious puffery. The reality of their great creations is endless debugging much by the public. The better the developer the longer it takes to debug the great creation. The more elegant, the harder it is to maintain. That quality code after one rewrite becomes absolutely topologically entangled confounding all attempts to stabilize and become amenable to change. And it always grows. So what's the point of retaining skilled spaghetti bloat masters? Not one of them believes they are doing what they've been taught they shouldn't. They end up doing whatever is dictated by the team leader. That's called "people skills". Keeping your mouth shut and doing what the head honchos want. As far as this interview song and dance goes in order to become one of the Silicon Valley Elite, the first screen is whether you have the appropriate background. Appropriate means Comp Sci. They don't want to see your code run, they want to know if what you've been doing fits into their narrowminded plan. They don't want to know about your coding skills, they want to know how quickly you can learn their COBAL variant, UNIX flavor, or C extension. . None of them wants to receive and run any example programs. So tell me, how can these intellectually advanced individuals reach conclusions based on appearances, prejudice, one dimensional blockheadedness. I'll tell you how. They are programmed to be stupid and they can't kick the habit. They're being paid to produce junk. They don't know how to craft quality because quality isn't necessary and surely isn't profitable. For them the only thing that is necessary is doing whatever keeps the flow of dough in gear. So what test have you put yourself to? What do you think working in a start-up gives you? Before you got out of grade school, I had inspected and evaluated hundreds of start-ups. Most were busts. Most were poorly conceived attempts at believing themselves into success. Almost all had the sole goal of receiving venture capital. That isn't the way to succeed. What qualification is needed to talk in the areas I have. Comp Sci? Who says your firm will survive? You've had nothing but good times, the greatest times in history for your field. What happens when that ends? Then you can tell me all about how qualified you are to run a firm or tell me how unqualified I am to assess great expectations built on false hopes.

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