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Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers'
TheGrapeApe writes "The CEO of San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company's blog about why he considers .NET experience on a resume a general liability, saying that it will 'definitely raise questions' when screening for developers in his shop. Quoting: '.NET is a dandy language. It's modern, it's fancy, it's got all the bells and whistles. And if you're doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren't), it's your only choice. But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"' Does he have a point? Or is it counterproductive to screen devs out based on what platforms or languages they have used in the past?"
Here, let me help. Perl was, is, and always will be better than Python at everything forever.
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Emacs maybe but not vi, vi sucks. I would never hire anybody who used vi by choice, sure sometimes you're forced to use it but mostly it's a choice.
Their main accomplishment for the purposes of this story is that they are rejecting a Microsoft product.
For some people, that's enough. After all, I'm sure the previous story praising Microsoft's Kinect left a bad taste in peoples' mouths, so this is just a little something to cleanse the palate. By my calculations, we should be about due for a story about revolutionary technological advances expected in the iPad 3. It's the weekend after all, and the adult supervision is probably home with their families.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I make close to 6 figures using real languages.
Most of us don't count the digits to the right of the decimal point.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Alright, time for some standards: "Why do you feel that Python is so bad? What do you find wrong with it?"
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thank you for summing up the economy of the United States, circa 2000-2010
"Instead, we look for a very different sort of person. The sort of person who grew up cooking squirrels over a campfire with sharpened sticks"
I knew having that essential skill on my resume would pay off some day!
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Well, I guess .NET isn't the ONLY solution to EVERY possible problem.
Interestingly I flirted with the system.net.mail namespace. He played footsie with me, and our first date was fantastic. I was absolutely thrilled, but when we met for our 2nd date, I asked him if he had a way of proving to one of my clients that he had actually sent an email I'd asked him to, for example, by providing the SMTP session upon request. He asked the waitress for another drink and said that no, he didn't.
I figured perhaps I could get my friend Eve to listen in on his communications with other mail servers, but Eve told me, "Girl, that dude's bad news. You don't want nothin' to do with him. Every time I tries to record his sessions, sister, he drops his socket at the first sign of a 200 response. My advice, girl, is if you's lookin' for something like that, you just best write your own emailer."
And so I did.
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