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just to screw things up:
quality is what? bug-freeness? beauty of the UI? optimality of inner loops? ....
quantity is? lines of code, number of modules?, depth of documentation? ....
even time: 10 hours of about-as-good-as-a-junior code, or 5 hours of expert-level code? ...
what about:
- number of problems solved?
- amount of [other peoples] bugs fixed (or found before release they happened)?
- thoroughness of testing?
- best at facing the customer?
- the one that bought most of the coffees and danishes?
- the one who oiled the squeaky wheels on the chairs?
... the one that cleaned up the most sh*t or made the least amount of it?
some things can't be quantified, and even those that can are rarely comparable.
anyway (from the comic books) we know that true hero's shun recognition,
so best leave them alone otherwise they may become uncomfortable and fly off forever.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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stop being difficult. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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How about: meets user requirements.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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maze3 wrote: Time + Quality of Code = great developer
Time + Quantity = developer that putting the time in.
Quantity != Quality
I agree with you, but - and this is maybe what Rockstar is looking for? - there's a "labor of love" element wherein the code is the primary idea of one person who is pouring blood sweat and tears out to bring this brilliant baby to life.
And that happens a lot, and I'd say so often in these cases it's quality and quantity and the dev gets grey hair over it (but also satisfaction)
and maybe that's who Rockstar is trying to pinpoint.
Just my $0.02
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honey the codewitch wrote: there's a "labor of love" element wherein the code is the primary idea of one person who is pouring blood sweat and tears out to bring this brilliant baby to life.
I call it, Ownership!
If I don't own it, I don't care about it at all. Other people making decisions, telling me what to do. Fine. Just type.
But, if I Own It then I am making the decisions and making it work and insuring there are no bugs.
Ownership! So few companies really understand that. Maybe it's impossible for a company to understand.
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Yeah, i think they're more interested in preserving their own ownership of your work.
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Surely irrelevant, but is it just me, or is the article using "rock star" developer in the general sense, whereas you seem to be talking about Rockstar, as in, the developers of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series...?
(if I'm in that mindset, that's only because I've been playing a lot of GTA Online lately...I've finally discovered, after many years, that the Online component can actually be entertaining, if you manage to ignore the idiots who think the game is only about killing other players)...
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You're right. I thought they meant Rockstar. LOL
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Yes we exist. I saved a cat from a tree.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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...and the cat thought, "damn*t, now the bird flew away..."
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I think heroes exist in every profession.
Mostly, because a lot of people don't really care about their work or are just very bad at it.
If you like programming, learn some new tricks from time to time, and are a decent communicator with a good brain between your ears, you'll leave approximately 90% of the developers FAR behind you.
How much code have you seen that does if if if if if (Christmas tree programming), has functions with 100's of lines of code or classes with 1000's, code that you just can't figure out no matter how much time you spend with it, or simply code that doesn't seem to be doing anything at all?
If you've worked for different companies, my guess is that's the bulk of the code.
Compare it to recruiters, most of them are like "Hi maze4, I've got a client near you in the Netherlands! We're looking for skilled Delphi developers and your profile stood out!"
I mean, the bulk of recruiters don't even read your profile, spell your name wrong, or don't fill out obvious placeholders in default messages.
Once in a while, a recruiter comes along who has obviously read your profile and makes you an offer you'd seriously consider.
But that's probably 1 out of 99.
The same goes for developers.
And as far as I'm concerned, that's most of the working population.
That's why support never seems to be helpful, they're just a bunch of bunglers, just like everyone else.
How many good managers have you had?
And what about unhelpful system administrators?
Or someone from the business who changes specifications more often than socks.
So maybe a "hero developer" is just a decent developer that looks like a hero in comparison 
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I am sure there are some left but Flash has died...
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Hi,
Just noticed our resident Alien (legal or not) has a string of Fireworks, why?
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Chinese new year? Or he's just getting up to mischief.
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i can't see them, so it must be localised.
Has someone blown up parliament? Or was that just a happy dream?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I saw them a minute ago, but they're gone now... 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I saw them a minute ago, but they're gone now...
... And they've just turned up on mine. They must be doing the rounds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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shouldiblamecaching.com[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They're gone from mine again, now, so that's a pretty damned complex caching error.
There's also something funny going on with the reply-notification badge, which keeps coming and going.
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CP caching weirdness has often been caused by each web server having its own cache that doesn't update at the same time as the others; their load balancer doesn't always return you to the same server so weird stuff(tm) happens.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Aha. I've caused that kind of problem myself, but it's one of those that isn't really worth "fixing".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm partial to the load balancer setting that pins a user session to a single webserver. Not foolproof but as long as you don't have highly variable user impact on server loads it hides the most confusing bits of the problem.
At least in theory. In practice while I've got a load balancer in front of my webserver for just in case, I've never actually needed to put a 2nd server behind it. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: as long as you don't have highly variable user impact on server loads
There's the rub. The times when the servers are most in use are (purely coincidentally, of course) the times when people complain most about lags. I'd think about it hard, before pinning sessions.
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