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Re:What You Believe Affects What You Achieve by ryandrake on Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:30AM (#10752421)
This mentality is what causes tech companies to all adopt the myopic "We only hire 'A' players" hiring policy. I totally disagree with this. With the right coaching, feedback, and practice, B players can definitely become A players. I've seen it happen over and over throughout my career. Gates is usually right about this kind of stuff but I can't agree with this one.
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Re:What You Believe Affects What You Achieve by vonmoltke on Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:41AM (#10752492)
It also completely ignores that programmers may appear to be mediocre because of environmental factors beyond their control. Casting this to the general case, people do not have absolute control over the conditions in which they need to succeed, and may fail despite taking every optimal action for their situation.
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Re:What You Believe Affects What You Achieve by Tad_Ghostly on Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:46AM (#10752530)
> Gates is usually right about this kind of stuff but I can't agree with this one.

Context: He said this in 1986.

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