Re: Disobeying jet engines - why?

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So it dawned on me
that he didn't ever give a damn about my problem, he just wanted to
fiddle with databases. Similarly, there are lots of programmers who
aren't interested in your dinky buttons and LCD's, they really want to
get into context switching and schedulers and dynamic memory
assignment algorithms.

I think even more would-be programmers have simply been sold a bill of goods
by those who'd like to sell you databases, RTOSes, etc. in the first place --
they have a difficult time conceiving how the problem ought to be solved "from
scratch" so they fall for the advertisements telling them that all their
problems will become trivially simple if only they send over a purchase order.

Fire them.

Don't hire them in the first place; the guy in your example sounds like he'd
be an excellent employee at a company -- just not *your* company.



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