Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 02:49 am


Scott Moore wrote:

> spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >>>Cool. Now tie global warming to programming productivity....
> >>
> >>OK.  Overpaid non-productive programmers are busy burning fuel in
> >>their oversized SUVs, thus producing carbon-dioxide and
> >>contributing to global warming.  More productive programmers are
> >>driving hybrids and bicycles. :-)
> >
> >
> > Fair enough. In my experience, the best programmers are politically
> > left-liberal and take bicycles or public transportation to work,
> > whereas oafish and arrogant types, prone to oafish and arrogant bug
> > writing and throwing their considerable weight around, drive to work in
> > SUVs, voted for Bush, and can't bloody code all that good.
>
> So anyone who is not left-liberal, doesn't use a bicycle or public
> transport, or voted for Bush clearly is not a good programmer. QED.

think positive - this means no more of agonising about how to write
resumes and what to do in interviews, comp.programming gets quite few
posts worrying over the selection process and here is a simple value
model to judge them by.

More seriously, the use of factors beyond the immediate skills of the
job is common in selection because they are considered to be indicative
of overall suitability.

anecdotal experience often supports this, but it's a minefield of
prejudice and inequity.  Attempts to regulate the prejudice and
inequity replace the old prejudice and inequity with new prejudice and
inequity!

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