Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by olalonde » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

Programmer Competency Matrix
starling-software.com

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by ColinWright » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

Those who are interested in this subject and want to discuss it, you may be interested in seeing the points - good and bad - that have been made on previous occasions that this has been submitted. Here are a few previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192 (indiangeek.net) 75 points 4 years ago 33 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554338 (indiangeek.net) 83 points 3 years ago 33 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1022394 (indiangeek.net) 67 points 2 years ago 40 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949915 (starling-software.com) 155 points 1 year ago 106 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823912 (indiangeek.net) 12 points 1 year ago 1 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3434350 (starling-software.com) 2 points 9 months ago 0 comments

Discussions like this can be of value, and no doubt some of the newer people on HN may have points to add. OTOH, many points will already have been made, so seeing the past discussions may be of benefit.

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by buro9 » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:39 PM UTC

The original is here: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by coob » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

Where's the interpersonal skills section?

Attitude section?

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by praptak » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #2

Those who are interested in this subject and want to discuss it, you may be interested in seeing the points - good and bad - that have been made on previous occasions that this has been submitted. Here are a few previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192 (indiangeek.net) 75 points 4 years ago 33 comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554338 (indiangeek.net) 83 points 3 years ago 33 comments…

111 comments 1 year ago had 155 upvotes, not 1. The upvote count patterns are interesting nevertheless :)

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by mattdeboard » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:54 PM UTC

coob wrote: post #4

Where's the interpersonal skills section? Attitude section?

Those are part of the "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being competency matrix", along with bathing and wearing pants as often as possible.

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by ColinWright » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 1:55 PM UTC

praptak wrote: post #5

ColinWright wrote: post #2

Those who are interested in this subject and want to discuss it, you may be interested in seeing the points - good and bad - that have been made on previous occasions that this has been submitted. Here are a few previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192 (indiangeek.net) 75 points 4 years ago 33 comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554338 (indiangeek.net) 83 points 3 years ago 33 comments…

111 comments 1 year ago had 155 upvotes, not 1. The upvote count patterns are interesting nevertheless :)

Sorry, I simply cut-n-paste from the search results - I'll go fix that now.

Thanks for the heads-up - much appreciated.

Added in edit: Now fixed - points and comments. Thanks again.

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by indiecore » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 2:00 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #7

praptak wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

111 comments 1 year ago had 155 upvotes, not 1. The upvote count patterns are interesting nevertheless :)

Sorry, I simply cut-n-paste from the search results - I'll go fix that now. Thanks for the heads-up - much appreciated. Added in edit: Now fixed - points and comments. Thanks again.

>I simply cut-n-paste from the search results

Ah, we have a level 0 on the HN matrix here apparently.

Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 2:01 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #3

The original is here: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...

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Re: Programmer Competency Matrix

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Post by ColinWright » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 2:04 PM UTC

indiecore wrote: post #8

ColinWright wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I simply cut-n-paste from the search results - I'll go fix that now. Thanks for the heads-up - much appreciated. Added in edit: Now fixed - points and comments. Thanks again.

> I simply cut-n-paste from the search results Ah, we have a level 0 on the HN matrix here apparently.

Well, to be honest, I have deep-scripted accessing HN, but I tend only to use it when doing big data crunching on trends and similar. When providing cross-references I've usually just put the IDs - actually counting points, comments and age is something I've not done for a while.

Don't think I'll bother again, I get enough grief and hate-mail just from trying to point people at earlier conversations.