Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Lamb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Pardon me for asking, but... Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:15:50 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <469d50eb-cc9b-4878-8195-1faccd60cc07@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7f42270a997e580902d19031af10867c"; logging-data="1213"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xb8uqlaV7AcmxJCC1UI08" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <469d50eb-cc9b-4878-8195-1faccd60cc07@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:N2Kf5MIYH4hGdhGwqe9kvjCas8g= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19520 On 26/10/2012 3:25 PM, Lew wrote: > pat.t...@gmail.com wrote: >> In light of these job postings, what exactly constitutes an "URGENT" need for a programmer? I've >> managed developers, and I can honestly say that I've never seen-or even _heard_ of-a programming >> emergency... > > Short career so far? Do people still read Brooks' "Mythical Man-Month"? He said "adding people to a late project makes it later". So if you have a programming "emergency", maybe hiring somebody at the last minute isn't going to help. Nevertheless, people seem to do it.