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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by webdood90 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:30PM (#18957651)
Are things in place to make the job easier? Seniors don’t need easier and this is a huge turnoff.

What? I feel like you have a very narrow-minded idea of what sr engineers want.

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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by drb91 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:33PM (#18957655)
Well, unambitious seniors are a good bet on who not to hire. They’ll only work what you pay them for, those lazy bastards!
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by jjeaff on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:39PM (#18957677)
I think I've read in quite a few places that most great programmers are essentially lazy.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by bigiain on Monday January 21, 2019 @05:18PM (#18964151)
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." -- LarryWall

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it.

Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to.

Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.

(That quoite's originally from Programming Perl 1st edition in 1991, the explanations I think didn't show up until edition 2 in '96 or so...)

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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by carlmr on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:55AM (#18959724)
A special kind of lazy where they will spend inordinate amounts of effort not to do the same routine task again.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by austincheney on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:18AM (#18957842)
I differentiate between simple and easy. They aren't the same.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by Annatar on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:24AM (#18958395)
He does and he is correct.
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