[ale] [SEMI-OT] Skills for programmers/engineers?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On 01/28/2014 05:26 PM, John Heim wrote:
>
> Another time  I was asked in a job interview which languages I knew. 
> I'm not sure I'd have the bravado to give this answer today but the 
> guy doing the interview said it was  my answer to this question that 
> got me the job. I said, "Well, I know all of them. Once you've learned 
> three or four, you know them all. Give me an afternoon  with a new 
> language and I'll be able to produce working code. Give me a week and 
> i'll be fluent." 

Funny.

I think monster.com did a commercial years back where the programmer got 
the job because he dreamed code.  I think we all do that.

I want the guy who goes to sleep with a problem and wakes up with the 
answer.  Enters his shower with a problem dries off with an answer.  
Goes to the gym with a problem walks out the gym with the answer.   My 
life :(.   I said to my business partner many times that I could spend 1 
hour on the tread mill and come back with 3 hours worth of work.

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