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Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:42:33 +0000

Accept all credit for the project when all you have done for it is ask the star programmer, “How’s it coming?” once every two months.

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Hou Yong Rong

Hou Yong Rong — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:06:11 +0000

Oops…forgot to have the email scrambler on. Sorry. It’s on now. But looks like existing emails can’t be scrambled?

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by OJ

OJ — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:42:29 +0000

Can you please remove my email address from this page? If I’d known that the email was going to be public I’d never have punched it in the first time.

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Charson

Charson — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:15:35 +0000

36)make him use the floopy drive for back ups

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Rakhitha Karunarathne

Rakhitha Karunarathne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:12:17 +0000

Hire a marketing team that does not know the limitations of the technology that the company is using.

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:02:42 +0000

35) Cheat on your wife with the company secretary and give her authority to tell the programmers how to do their job!

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by pain

pain — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:20:54 +0000

32) Ask them to answer the phone after 16:00. (At 16:00 the company secretary goes home).
33) Ignore any of their requests for a CPU or memory upgrade. 512mb should be enough.
34) Ignore any of their requests for new tech books in the company. Programmers (and especially “star” ones) should buy their own books, study them on their free time, and bring/apply knowledge back to work.

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:47:39 +0000

31) Insist that they be teamed with the new tech support new hire so he can learn the product from the ground up.

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by linuxkid

linuxkid — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:25:37 +0000

28) Have them generate “Reports” for sales
29) Have them write documentations that no one wants
30) Have them listen “web 2.0″ meetings from manager

Comment on 10 ways to kill your star programmer by mj1531

mj1531 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:10:49 +0000

26) Have them work with blub programmers.
27) Have them share office space with noisy project managers and an erratic heating/cooling system.