Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <7onf4t$1qb$0@216.39.144.179>, Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> wrote:

>Not keeping up with your education 'eh?  Thank you for coming and we'll
>keep your resume on file for a future opening.  Next! :-)

Once you get to a certain point, from my point of view, there's very
little point in further distinction, except perhaps for lawyers and
bleeding hearts.  I'm all for putting career criminals on a one way barge
going out of this country, and making sure they don't come back.


>Haven't looked, but probably until everyone catches on to them or he
>gets bored keeping it going or runs out of money to keep his
>entertainment going.

That could take a long time, unfortunately.  There are a lot of fools out there.


>"my betters", such is by no means the case.  GOOD managers are worth
>their weight in {select very valuable substance of your choice}. 

Only if they're fat. <grin>  Otherwise, you need to apply multipliers.


>The company is no better off no matter how well it is funded at the
>moment.  I won the battles and lost the war :-(.  The Golden Rule
>applied there - those that have the gold make the rules... Right, wrong
>or indifferent.  Doing a good job and caring mattered not one whit. 
>Sigh...  I realize that leaving there was one of the better moves I have
>made, even if things seem really bleak at the moment.

Yes, you did the Right Thing, from what it sounds like.  Unfortunately,
the short term may suffer for the benefit of the long term.
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