[LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

[Richard Drake]

On 18 April 2013 10:16, Andrew Stewart <boss at airbladesoftware.com> wrote:

>
> On 18 Apr 2013, at 11:13, Tom Stuart wrote:
> > I have a degree in Classics from Oxford.
>
> Oh well, I'm sure things will look up eventually.
>
>

Ha.

A rather magnificent discussion. I'd also single out Paul Doerwald on the
understanding of value (and the ability to create technical solutions to
match) - something we've all seen does not correlate absolutely with
academic credentials - and Najaf Ali's excellent advocacy on behalf of the
devil.

I had the weird experience of winning a scholarship in Maths to Cambridge
and being deeply depressed on first meeting my fellow scholar at the
college in question, as the guy was so far ahead of me in branches of the
subject where I didn't even know there were branches. I learned much later
that around eight years after we first met he'd won a Fields Medal,
commonly called the Nobel Prize for maths. I guess I shouldn't have worried
quite so much.

I didn't spot Simon's elevation to the very great for around fifteen years
because I was toiling away in what was then the humble field of commercial
software engineering. I always loved its egalitarian side, such as the guy
I heard about in my early days who began as uneducated gardener at a major
data centre, was brought in to shift some boxes and ended up as chief
programmer. Or the revolutionary socialist who when he wasn't calling out
the workers on strike against the bastard bosses was chief creator of
Reuters' seminal Monitor system for the biggest banks in the world in the
late 70s and early 80s. (I'm guessing those dates - certainly he was still
talked about with awe when I first consulted at the place in 1986.)

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