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Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programmingHe wasnБЂ™t just repeating pabulum about C++ patterns. We have kids like that, unfortunately. Nice people and adequate programmers, for what they were doing, Java Enterprise stuff. But we needed somebody different, and this guy was different. So in the interview the main problem was overcoming people misreading his age or thinking he wasnБЂ™t accomplished enough. But we hired him and heБЂ™s just been a superstar. HeБЂ™s done a bunch of static analysis tooling, originally on this open-source Berkeley Oink framework, and then on GCC as plugins, working with the GCC guys. Now heБЂ™s kicking our mobile effort into high gear, just doing poor manБЂ™s profiling and printf of timestamps and finding out where the costs are and whacking them. So when I interviewed him I knew there was talent. That he came recommended from somebody bright was good, because you know bright people like each other and can judge each otherБЂ”generally thereБЂ™s not a dysfunctional, БЂњHire my friend, whoБЂ™s really not bright.БЂ«They want to work with bright people ...» |
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