Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : shelley
Date : Sat Jul 02 2005 04:19 am


You're right. I had made certain assumptions, perhaps unwarranted. I
know good practices - agile or not - can amplify capability but it is
still the individual variability that is most marked.

The very 'best' (perhaps exceptional  is a better word) programmers I
have known have been, if not weird then at least a little unusual and
both an opportunity and a risk in a project. They think faster and
better, and are often impatient with the rest of us. These types are
easy to regonize but the capabiity is difficult to characterize. Not
error free, not balanced, not always right, but...

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