A friendly suggestion for the OP:
An uppercase theta should be used for "Big Θ time complexity" regarding algorithms but for angles like in the article, it should be the lowercase theta that looks like this: θ.
Short fat engineers are undervalued
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Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#12The reality often goes against the premise of the article. What are accomplishments of tall.skinny vs short.fat engineers? Linux was driven by Linus T, javascript by Brendan E, Apple by 2 Steve’s, etc. Innovation and creativity are more highly valued, which are byproducts of short.skinny type.
As usual with these types of articles, the advice in the maxim is asserted free of context.
> On a long enough time line, wisdom is always more valuable than knowledge.
In practice, context is everything. That’s why for every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#13The valve employee handbook talks about the T shaped engineer (page 32) https://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_Handbook_Low...
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#14The reality often goes against the premise of the article. What are accomplishments of tall.skinny vs short.fat engineers? Linux was driven by Linus T, javascript by Brendan E, Apple by 2 Steve’s, etc. Innovation and creativity are more highly valued, which are byproducts of short.skinny type.
Steve J is tall and skinny. Steve W is slightly shorter than average and fat. Linus is pretty much dead average, maybe a little tall and a little heavy. Brendan's the same height as Steve W, and was weight proportionate at the time, though he's put on weight since then.
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#15What about the squares amongst us?
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#16The valve employee handbook talks about the T shaped engineer (page 32) https://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_Handbook_Low...
The article of this post also does. I’m unsure what point you’re trying to make?
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#17Do "height on demand". Constant abstract and compress the knowledge so you can ramp up in any area as needed.
Really, this is why programming languages are my "home base" of expertise. It's the study of formal ideas and their communication.
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#19Is it really true?
A lot of companies are focusing on hiring "short fat" engineers. Especially companies having "dev ops" engineering model, where engineers must be able to work on all stages of the product lifecycle - from design, development, testing, to deployment and operations.
Re: Short fat engineers are undervalued
#20Not sure I agree. A "short fat" could theoretically be replaced by a group of "short skinny", whereas a "tall skinny" could only be replaced by another "tall skinny".
As value is largely determined by scarcity (supply and demand), this would cause "short fat" to be of lower value.