Joel Spolsky
3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Joel Spolsky · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Spolsky: Hiring programmers requires evaluating public portfolios like GitHub and Stack Overflow
“It's really looking at a programmer's public work now that's relevant. And so just like you wouldn't hire a designer without looking at a portfolio that they brought, brought you when you're hiring a programmer today, you're likely to look at the, Open source …”
Jan 2, 2019
Spolsky: Modern developers learn by page faulting knowledge, not reading manuals
“We think is that people have given up from learning a priori how to use the programming environments that they're working in. They don't even read a book, let alone the documentation. I think they start by writing code or by cutting and pasting code. They don'…”
Jan 2, 2019
Spolsky: 40M people write software monthly, vs 9M professional developers
“When we started building Stack Overflow we did a lot of research on how many software developers there were in the world, and the conclusion seems to be nine million people that call themselves software developers in the world, and we had at the time six milli…”