@jcmeloni I have not seen anyone call you out for acting unilaterally that had any credibility. The one time I hope you noticed the community rally around you. there are only 3 mods so the -12 score he got came from the rest of us.
I think this site would benefit from more firm guidance from the mods. If you guys step in before it becomes a mess your presence is enough to prevent the mess from occurring or at least getting out of hand.
@BenBrocka I don't want people to agree with me all the time. If I am wrong I can take it.
@gnat I don't down vote newbies. I always try and help them understand the problem and correct them if I can.
@Chad thanks; I was actually speaking about the mods past & present as a group. :) I do agree that there should be much more guidance; as a mod group we do talk about that among ourselves and are trying to determine a clear level of guidance everyone is comfortable with.
This is a little different than the question of what to put in the portfolio. I made one for myself -- with screen grabs, demos, and careful explanations -- but nobody seemed happy with it. I couldn't really find out why.
I vaguely got the impression hiring managers wanted to go to a live produ...
I went ahead and edited this to clean it up. I'm hoping it's a better question as a result. If not, it has 2 close votes already and only needs three 500+ rep users to close it.
I personally find questions like this difficult to judge because, to me, they seem like career questions, not workplace questions. However, at the same time, we seem to allow questions about interviews to stand, but resume questions are generally closed.
At the company I recently joined, development for the product I'm now working on is done in a home-grown language with no applicability beyond this product team.
We're going to be advertising for new developers shortly, but I expect that this will take a long time because of the language.
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In other words, the only people who seem to be able to answer this are programmers who hire other programmers and who are familiar with the intricacies of learning another programming language.
My thought is that this is just the other side of the "How can I do better at job X" type questions.
Where this is "How can I hire people to do better at job X"
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