Comments on: Effective Technology Teams: Rule #1, No Chumps

By: No Rock Stars Need Apply | Innovation On The Run

No Rock Stars Need Apply | Innovation On The Run — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:35:32 +0000

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By: Rob Di Marco

Rob Di Marco — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:46:20 +0000

Marge, thank you for your grammatical pointers. I will edit accordingly.

By: Marge

Marge — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:00:11 +0000

This post is very well helpful, and I’m sure, very well thought out. However, it is also a testament to how difficult it is to catch one’s own mistakes, as it does contain several typos, in spite of the author’s stated abhorrence to such oversights:

1) “Has their been any book/website/blog that has made you think differently about how you should work?” It should be “Has there . . . ”

2) “The goal is to get great hires and avoid chumps, it is not a time to take big risks.” The commas should be a semi-colon or a period, with a new sentence starting at “it.”

3) “Not necessarily, it just means that we weren’t positive that you were great.” Just like #2 above, the comma should be a semi-colon or a period, with a new sentence starting at “it.”

I have found that asking another to read my work, or setting it aside for a day or two, and then rereading, helps me to avoid those abhorrent typos. With online documents, printing them out helps me to find those typos, although this is more difficult with blogs.

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By: Sandro

Sandro — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:30:52 +0000

Excellent post, as someone who at times doubts their ability to land a programming gig I find your list of basic criteria reassuring.

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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:37:59 +0000

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