rockhymas

Abstraction is compression, and abstraction is definitely a core component of intelligence.

Kiln Harmony won't save as much money and angst as a DVCS that automatically converts tabs to spaces and back, based on personal settings, or one that changes bracket code formatting, but it's a start.

This makes it easier to bring on new team members who are more familiar with or comfortable with one DVCS.

And the (admittedly slight) gains in productivity for some of your developers is a nice bonus.

New York City -- Full Time Software Developer

Fog Creek Software is hiring full time developers, sales positions, and we're open to looking at intern resume's for summer 2012. http://www.fogcreek.com/careers.html

I would agree. Though C is far from useless, it really isn't used here at the Creek. Which was a double bonus for me, since after 6 years immersed in C and C++ I could find a job that let me do something new but that I felt very comfortable interviewing for. That said, I really don't believe you need lots of C experience to do well in our interviews.

My full response to Ben is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2442696.

You're totally right on the path to the source code. The build scripts, as typically run by a developer, should actually do two things: 1) build the code into binaries and 2) deploy those binaries on the developers machine so he/she can easily test it. Builds on official build machines shouldn't be putting the builds into the hard coded location, and so shouldn't do the second thing. I haven't started discussing the difference between build scripts and deploy scripts, but that's essentially the difference I'm referring to here.