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Old 28th December 2012
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I saw a job ad recently, in what sounds like a fine place to work, that had among its requirements, "produce prodigious amounts of high quality code." I'm almost afraid to apply. Is this not like asking for the ability to leap over buildings in a single bound? Or maybe it's just a statement about their life/work balance? Or they just hire the likes of L Peter Deutsch, etc.?

I hear a lot of people wanting a professional body for software developers. Maybe that would help in some way. I'd rather see it become convention that all source be public. Obviously this is no magic bullet. There's no end of really crappy open source/free software. But still, it might provide a little momentum in the right direction if owners knew their code could theoretically be viewed by customers and if developers knew their code could be examined by hiring managers in the future.
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