Why no one is looking for rockstar programmers

Why no one is looking for "rockstar programmers"

Wiktor Schmidt, netguru@wiktorschmidt

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Egoless programmer

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● You are not your code

● There is ALWAYS someone that is better than you that you can learn from

● There is ALWAYS someone that is worse than you that you can teach

● Critique other people's code not other people

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Team player

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Things you should never say

● works on my machine

● blame shows me that Joe commited this line

● it was like this before my changes

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ABL

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Always Be Learning

● Which technology that is relevant today was relevant 5 years ago?

● Which technology that was relevant 5 years ago is relevant today?

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Be a "T" person

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Be "relentlessly resourceful"

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Q: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?

A: Yes, yes there is.

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There is a problem.

OK. I'm going to solve it.

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What now?

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What now?

● learn a new technology (can I recommend Ruby? ;) - strive to learn a new one every few months

● go through someones open source code, improve it and send a pull request

● if there is a problem in your workplace or university volunteer to fix it

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Thank you

Question / comments?

● twitter: @wiktorschmidt

● email: wiktor@netguru.co

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