pagekalisedown
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
Imagine working on a feature for weeks, only to realize that other people with more experience and knowledge of the project are doing the same work.
What's the incentive from the maintainer's point of view to reduce duplication of effort? The maintainer's not paying either developers, and they have a backup if one of them doesn't come thru.
But from a developer's perspective, it's frustrating to put efforts into a patch that doesn't end up being used.
Eye candy is great, but Javascript has often been a vector for privacy issues. Hence the popularity of Noscript and most browsers having an option to disable Javascript.
I think low level jobs need more visibility. Perhaps a monthly "Who's Hiring" thread for low-level jobs would help.
If you only accept resumes in Word format, you're not the dinosaur I want to work for.