Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmer
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| Many programmers, especially those who write for virtual machines such as
| Java or the .NET CLI, think that low-level machine architecture and
| processor instructions don't matter anymore. That's still not true, and I
| don't believe it ever will be.
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| It is very important to be able to show your next employer what
| you have done, and what you are able to do in a team. Free
| software/open source is the ideal way of doing this. It's not
| just a better way of producing software, it's actually better
| for the reputation of the people creating it. One of the first
| things I do when evaluating someone is to look for samples of
| their code out there on the Internet. If you work on proprietary
| software you can't show anyone anything, and real code speaks
| louder than any list of projects you claim to have worked on.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6173644.html
This was discussed in COLA quite recently.
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