Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.

From: Stephen Kellett (snail_at_objmedia.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:59 +0100

>Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time, all programmers were royalty and dictated their terms to
>> potential employers. The dot.com bust changed all of that, but hopefully
>> such arrogance is a sign that good times are ahead!

Nope - that scenario I described happened in 1999/2000 time frame. He
was interviewed by staff at a very successful CAD company with apps in
C++ with millions of lines of source. And he wanted to do Java. He
didn't get invited back for a second interview. The advert didn't even
mention Java.

Stephen 

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