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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you guys – I have several
other tech guys involved who should be able to suss them out… requirement
is that they are smart, balanced, go-getting etc … C<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Duncan Stuart
[mailto:dgmstuart@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 17 April 2013 17:32<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Gerhard Lazu; Chris McGourty<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">chat@lists.lrug.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby
Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I studied Maths and CompSci at Oxford about 10 years ago - gave me a
great grounding in certain principles but IN NO WAY prepared me to be a
developer in the real world (nor was it really supposed to). I left uni as an
idealist without having written a line of code in any language actually used
outside academia. Any pragmatism/process/good programming practice which I've
learned has all been on the job. Oxford grads can make great *analysts* out of
the box, but if you want one to be a lead tech you'd better be sure that they
were accomplished programmers before they started their course, or be prepared
to spend a good few years moulding them into a real-world dev.<br>
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Caveat: maybe everything has changed since my day.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 17 April 2013 16:57, Gerhard Lazu <<a
href="mailto:gerhard@lazu.co.uk" target="_blank">gerhard@lazu.co.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One of
the most disappointing applicants that I have ever interviewed was a D.Phil. in
Computer Science from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:City>.
Smart as a button, pragmatic as that red brick that you've mentioned.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Chris McGourty <<a
href="mailto:chrism@boxworld.co.uk" target="_blank">chrism@boxworld.co.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/
Oxbridge uni.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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