Comments for Code Anthem

Comment on 256X Better than a Resume by SDX2000

SDX2000 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:14:05 +0000

“why should I spend an hour of my time just for the chance to speak with you?”

Umm, how about…because I can prove that I am good programmer and I am interested in working for you?

Your premise may not be “flawed” but doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either.

Comment on Introducing Developer Driven Development (DDD) by Guy Who Hates Blanket Rules

Guy Who Hates Blanket Rules — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:00:37 +0000

Hi, Amber.

It’s a late comment, a few weeks after you wrote the article.

I fully agree with the idea of better programmers vs. process.

One only need to look at the most awesome and hilarious contrast between Peter Norvig (strong programmer) and Ron Jeffries (strong process salesman) and their approaches to solving Sudoku.

Norvig’s code actually solves the problem. Jeffries’ code fulfills the need for process.

Comment on Code Anthem's Law by Amber

Amber — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:39:36 +0000

@sucmaroosta

“Performance/Project cost and pay are completed unrelated”

Whoa, so Google could pay their developers $30K a year and their performance would remain the same? I don’t think so.

Comment on What is Code Anthem? by Amber

Amber — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:38:00 +0000

@sucmaroosta

“All your hype is generating a lot of expectations.”

Thank you. That is the point.

Comment on Code Anthem's Law by sucmaroosta

sucmaroosta — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:48:24 +0000

Wow… whoever came up with that idea? Performance/Project cost and pay are completely unrelated… in fact… I would sincerely recommend you go through this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Comment on What is Code Anthem? by sucmaroosta

sucmaroosta — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:15:12 +0000

There will never be a perfect way to judge and recruit good programmers… It will always be a trial and error thing. If programmers are not going to spend time giving certification tests, why would they spend time on your site? And how does doing whatever antics on your site count as plausible background? What makes you better than a certification company? Or linkedin? Or dice? Or Stack Overflow? Or hunting people with open source contributions? All your hype is generating a lot of expectations. Best of luck.

Comment on 256X Better than a Resume by Tibor Zimanyi

Tibor Zimanyi — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:25:08 +0000

@Amber Yes I have. It was a young programmer, who was not so skilled in writing code(especially in programming languages that we use at company that I work at), but had excellent logical thinking. The main advantage of such person is that he can learn new things very fast from any area.

The logical tests also help when there are few people on the same coding quality and you must choose few of them.

Comment on How much does it cost to hire a good programmer? by nikos lianeris

nikos lianeris — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:19:46 +0000

I believe that before we ask “How much does it cost to hire a good programmer?” we must first ask “what skills should a programmer have to characterize him as “good”"?apart from that in my country programmers are hired with far less money.Really sad but sooo true

Comment on 256X Better than a Resume by Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:57:04 +0000

I’m sorry this is not related to the article but couldn’t find other way to contact you. Your link “what_is_code_anthem?” on the top of the page is given a 404!

Admin Note: Sorry it went down guys – back up now!

Comment on 256X Better than a Resume by Amber

Amber — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:31:12 +0000

@Tibor Have you met programmers who can write a nicely crafted, brief algorithm in code but who cannot think logically? I don’t think I have…

@Ingo Exactly. And clearly that works for them, which is fine, especially considering they employ a pretty low number of developers. I don’t think that approach scales well to the many many businesses out there on the hunt for great developers.