The Number One Trait of a Great Developer
Jack is a Rockstar. Jack talks about all the latest trends at all the coolest conferences around the world. Jack makes a point of starting each project with at least three new technologies. When asked to produce an internet-based backend for letting kitchen devices synchronize their list of recipes, Jack went to town. The result was a combination of Google Protocol Buffers, node.js, and Cassandra. Elegant, scalable, and totally unmaintainable.
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Joel Spolsky nailed down the essence of good technical hiring in the title of his book: Smart and Get Things Done. Developers themselves tend to admire “smart” over “getting things done”. This article offers a counter perspective to that.
