It's kind of hard to judge this superstar developer you mentioned based on his knowledge of some of those UNIX tools.
Josh Bloch admitted himself that he's kind of not really "up"-ing his knowledge/skill when it comes to tools (git, eclipse, intellij, etc) but he writes damn good code with just Emacs.
He knows his Math & Stats to debunk benchmark and stuff like that and he knows the pitfalls of complexity.
ye but the mistake I made was to take his reputation and have a pre-conception about his abilities to the point where I almost didn't test him on anything.
he also fell apart in the code test, which was pretty simple (using a library I had written, which he made a copy of and edited). I have no idea how this guy got his reputation, but it seemed to be more amongst non-tech tech people, if you know what I mean (who are easier to bullshit, I guess)
when I started my career I worked with a bunch of old IBM mainframe guys who had no idea about modern web stuff but were some of the best programmers I have ever met. I could take a problem to them in a language they didn't know (so for eg. VB.NET) and they would talk me through it.
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It's kind of hard to judge this superstar developer you mentioned based on his knowledge of some of those UNIX tools.
Josh Bloch admitted himself that he's kind of not really "up"-ing his knowledge/skill when it comes to tools (git, eclipse, intellij, etc) but he writes damn good code with just Emacs.
He knows his Math & Stats to debunk benchmark and stuff like that and he knows the pitfalls of complexity.
ye but the mistake I made was to take his reputation and have a pre-conception about his abilities to the point where I almost didn't test him on anything.
he also fell apart in the code test, which was pretty simple (using a library I had written, which he made a copy of and edited). I have no idea how this guy got his reputation, but it seemed to be more amongst non-tech tech people, if you know what I mean (who are easier to bullshit, I guess)
when I started my career I worked with a bunch of old IBM mainframe guys who had no idea about modern web stuff but were some of the best programmers I have ever met. I could take a problem to them in a language they didn't know (so for eg. VB.NET) and they would talk me through it.