Somebody wrote:
> > If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable
> > brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I
> > don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to figure
> > out my wife . . .
You're way off base. Figure out the wife. I've never hired a "certified" engineer,
and almost without exception the ones I've come across were empty sacks of shit.
In fact, I've had great success doing exactly the opposite, and *hiring the wrong
guy*. Take a person who's been writing compiler back ends for the last 10 years.
This person is constantly pigeonholed by every headhunter out there into yet another
compiler job, and he'd give his eye teeth to do something different. You hire him
for something completely different, and he ends up being the most enthusiastic and
productive person you've got, because everything's new and exciting to him. And
believe me, folks, if he can write the back end to a compiler, he can figure out
mod_perl.
Or, I could hire Ferd over here, with a limp certificate from Randal saying he's
passed some clever little test on the six most obscure ways to <mumble>. Uh, no
thanks.
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