I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer

Re:I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer by koeselitz on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @11:44AM (#3858496)

Not only that - but this notion that "you should only work on what you're passionate about" can kill projects when versatility is required. 'I'm not really passionate about doing database interoperability stuff in Java - I took this job because I wanted to write Python.' Well. A job is a job, no matter what your passion is - and someone who will patiently and carefully slog through for 40 hours a week regardless of their passions is worth more to my team than somebody who'll give 80 hours a week to their one passion and zero hours to anything different.

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Re:I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer by jrockway on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @12:45PM (#3858851)

A job is a job, no matter what your passion is - and someone who will patiently and carefully slog through for 40 hours a week regardless of their passions is worth more to my team than somebody who'll give 80 hours a week to their one passion and zero hours to anything different.

That's awfully defeatist.

Why does it matter to someone who is passionate that you don't value him on your team? The end state is simple: he will not be on your team and it will not matter what you think. So what's the value of having (and writing about) this blanket opinion?

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Re:I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer by jamesaguilar on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:00PM (#3859646)

Having an opinion isn't worth anything unless it corresponds with the truth. Maybe this does correspond with the truth (i.e. grandparent wants to work with team players rather than people who only do what's fun). Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Value of writing about it? Very few of the comments on HN are valuable. People write for their own pleasure primarily, and if communication occurs that's icing on the cake. What's the "value" of you writing your rebuttal questioning the gp post's value?

TL;DR: don't really understand your question.

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Re:I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer by fleitz on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @12:07PM (#3858635)

I've never refused to work on stuff I don't like I just charge more for it, usually a percentage.

A multi-million dollar project that can be killed because someone doesn't want to write java interop code is something I want to support, most people mistake me for a programmer, I'm a business guy who knows how to code, what the bossman has in this situation is a win-win situation, his programmer gets to keep writing python, I get to write java interop code for a percentage of the project, and he gets a project finished.

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