Re: Re: Test for potential programmer

Piers Rowan wrote:
> Ranty McRanterson wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations on offending around two-thirds of the list by implying
>> that their chosen speciality is so trivial any lawyer could pick it up
>> in just a few months. You can count on getting unhelpful, inflammatory
>> responses (such as this one) from the people you've offended.
>>
>>   
> 
> The woman next to me finished year 11 at school and has been doing admin 
> / customer service since then....and then I flicked here some 
> HTML....then a few lines of PHP.....you know a bit here a bit there.
> 
> Yesterday she found a bug in an app because the CONCAT in a MySQL SELECT 
> query doesn't return rows if any of the columns in the CONCAT are NULL.


Someone at my work had to work on a contract with a senior partner at one of the country's biggest 
law firms. He said the work my friend did was better than 5 year experienced law graduates.

I'm sure a smart person can get across any discipline, and a smart person is smart enough to know 
their limitations. (unlike some VERY experienced IT people).

I didn't find the OP the least bit offensive. Sounds like we have some thin skin happening.
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