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Re: not enough real programmers?

Subject: Re: not enough real programmers?
From: drifkind@acm.deleteme.org (David Rifkind)
Date: 1999/08/11
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.arch.embedded, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Subnormal Intelligence
References: <rpvf9p$0$37nspbj$n2p@corp.supernews.com> <7o1oop$h9n@dfw-ixnews16.ix.netcom.com> <19990808.79A74E0.90DF@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> <7omre4$lbh$1@fcnews.fc.hp.com> <37b474c7.4438024@nnrp.gol.com>

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:10:24 GMT, prs@gol.com (Peter Stephenson) wrote:
>The question remains: how do you tell if they are decent programmers?

Hire them, give them projects, and wait to see how they come out.  If
they're not competent then kill them, bury the bodies, and forge records
to prove that they never worked for you.

-- 
"Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly
go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get."

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