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No Battles for Matz #

by why in cult

matz: That indicates that he trusts himself, and not me (Ruby). And I think he’s right.

In response to Joel.

said on 01 Sep 2006 at 11:24

Joel is pretty good, right up to the part where he starts getting into specifics about programming languages and techniques.

Great manager, terrible programmer.

said on 01 Sep 2006 at 12:33

Matz goes on to clarify: “He has right to trust himself than me. I think I am a better language designer than him. But at the same time, I think he is a better programmer to create enterprisy software.”

Hardly a controversial statement.

said on 01 Sep 2006 at 18:14

^—particularly considering the not-exactly-positive implications of ‘enterprisy’.

said on 02 Sep 2006 at 19:41

Enterprise is the new red-headed step-child.

said on 03 Sep 2006 at 15:14

Actually i think not. They used to say ‘you’ll never get fired for buying IBM ’

said on 04 Sep 2006 at 03:56

My boot-disk brings all the boys to the yard, dang right, it’s better than yours!

said on 06 Sep 2006 at 09:01

we would all do well to consider this classic example of duck-typing that Matz has demonstrated.

said on 11 Sep 2006 at 08:07

For a consultant, basically half of your job is CYA . As a new hire, straight out of college, a lot of people at the company recognized that I had better-than-average-new-grad skills, but unfortunately the “right people” refused to believe that a young punk could know anything. Things like Test Driven Development saved my ass back then. I could show definitively (when the “right people” couldn’t) that my work was “correct”.

It is very unfortunate that we can’t always do the job correctly. I keep hoping that the next 5 to 10 years will see enough good programmers graduating to become good managers and thereby shield the other good programmers from the whims of the ignorant upper management. Until then, we just have to pull out the asbestos bloomers.

So, in that respect Joel is correct. However, he is a self fulfilling prophecy, he is correct because he is one of those disconnected managers that much everything up for the good programmers.

Oh, and the incredibly narrow width of these reply boxes only make my replies look incredibly long…

said on 12 Sep 2006 at 03:43

Well, your comment is 9 times longer than the original post. Soon it will BECOME A MONSTER AND CONSUME US ALL !!

said on 12 Sep 2006 at 15:30

A lot of egos out there could learn from Matz’ ability to recognize and accept his strengths and weaknesses. Humility separates the great men from the good men.

said on 13 Sep 2006 at 01:44

A lot of egos out there could learn from Matz’ ability to recognize and accept his strengths and weaknesses. Humility separates the great men from the good men.

Word. All your base are belong to Matz! What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb! We get signal.

said on 13 Sep 2006 at 05:11

Goat got your tongue?

said on 14 Sep 2006 at 07:18

Please write news entries that people can understand and doesnt contain lots of links that you’ll have to click inorder to understand what its all about.

said on 15 Sep 2006 at 09:15

Bäver: I’ve come to the conclusion that these people are intentionally vague.

said on 16 Sep 2006 at 00:18

The vagaries of redhanded lead to enlightenment. It’s like a Zen kone.

11 Jul 2010 at 21:08

* do fancy stuff in your comment.

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