Re: OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-24 Thread Boaz Rymland
That's a bit off topic cause indeed you refer to greatness in one's profession/occupation/hobby but in any case, i remember the article you mentioned and the whole thesis it talks about. There was at least one Israeli weekend newspapers article, probably about the relevant translated book that

OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi,Since I'm looking for a Linux system job and the market conditions still sucks, I began thinking about other possibilities.. One of them is to become a full time developer.. As a system guy, I had my share of so-called programming: I wrote lots of shell scripts, PHP, some perl etc. I wasn't a

Re: OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-22 Thread ik
IMHO, it is a type of development, but development is more then just plain writing code. Code Monkey writes code. Developer design things, understand things etc... The question is can you handle development tasks, or just hack a problem with a super glue/duck tape ? If you can only use duck tape,

Re: OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Hetz! See below for my response. On Thursday 22 Oct 2009 12:59:57 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi,Since I'm looking for a Linux system job and the market conditions still sucks, I began thinking about other possibilities.. One of them is to become a full time developer.. As a system guy, I had

Re: OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: My question is simple: When does the developer experience starts ticking? (I'm not talking about any specific language here). Do the years of writing those small programs/scripts count as a developer years? or does the clock starts ticking when I'm a full time