Hiring Good Programmers Matters

Doctor O writes "Joel Spolsky (of joelonsoftware fame) has some good points and fun with numbers on the quality of programmers and whether it is more profitable to go with cheap or good programmers. His point is that a good programmer will simply create code of a quality that average programmers never can create. An interesting read."

Comments

Re:Who is Joel?

[kesuki]

Does Joel have some insight into programming that everyone reading Slashdot does not?

Well, he wrote a 'duh, obvious' article, it was linked to and posted on slashdot, so well obviously he has more insight than you because you have to submit your 'duh, obvious' observations via comments, while joel can write them for a web page and get linked to.

Hire better programmers and you'll get better code? no, you're kidding me... next thing you know you'll be telling me that if you hire better lawyers, a black man can commit murder and be found not guilty by a mostly white jury.

He is:

[thufir]

He's a homosexual communist jew.