tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post5045634133275439168..comments2023-04-29T07:23:25.825-04:00Comments on Jay Fields' Thoughts: The Fowler EffectJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491442812573747680noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-76185206692509892712009-01-16T17:31:00.000-05:002009-01-16T17:31:00.000-05:00I think there's another effect of such high profil...I think there's another effect of such high profile people with product-based companies. I suspect that more people will try out a product if such luminaries are perceived to work there. <BR/><BR/>I also suspect that 37 Signals' applications are signing up more people because of Rails and its influence, not just on the merits of the product alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-30077682717038307982009-01-16T17:05:00.000-05:002009-01-16T17:05:00.000-05:00I wasn't rejected: I didn't want the job anyway.I wasn't <I>rejected</I>: I didn't want the job anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-51045787117366338282009-01-16T12:57:00.000-05:002009-01-16T12:57:00.000-05:00Anonymous:Let me guess: you applied for a job at T...Anonymous:<BR/><BR/>Let me guess: you applied for a job at ThoughtWorks and got rejected.Joe Grossberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16355362807496413582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-51774447871367581482009-01-15T14:33:00.000-05:002009-01-15T14:33:00.000-05:00@Reginwald, Thanks. =)@Reginwald, Thanks. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-71798913617494881032009-01-15T14:20:00.000-05:002009-01-15T14:20:00.000-05:00Jay, noli nothis permittere te terere.Jay, <I>noli nothis permittere te terere</I>.Reginald Braithwaitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13132345822387028437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-19745062063858592792009-01-14T13:37:00.000-05:002009-01-14T13:37:00.000-05:00Jay, though you've evidently made a valiant attemp...Jay, though you've evidently made a valiant attempt to correct your grammatical mistakes, you've only made some worse.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the problem starts with the name of your blog. Should we really take advice from someone who's so flummoxed by the profundities of the English possessive?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-25936961046650571502009-01-14T08:11:00.000-05:002009-01-14T08:11:00.000-05:00It's a "badge of honor" to gush like a schoolgirl?...It's a "badge of honor" to gush like a schoolgirl? "Luminaries"? Good grief.<BR/><BR/>If my being anonymous makes you unable to engage my comment, that's your problem, not mine.<BR/><BR/>And it's "douchebag", douchebag.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-81121486462002169242009-01-14T06:40:00.000-05:002009-01-14T06:40:00.000-05:00@Anonymous: That was pretty cowardly thing to writ...@Anonymous: That was pretty cowardly thing to write and not include your name. People without the courage to attribute bile to their own names are douchbags.<BR/><BR/>Jay, thanks for leaving that comment up there. Badge of honor, IMHO.Mariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09735459767789832285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-1181327676206452162009-01-14T06:29:00.000-05:002009-01-14T06:29:00.000-05:00Employing luminaries seems like the relatively mor...Employing luminaries seems like the relatively more easy part. Far harder is using them appropriately. Richard Feynmann was working for Thinking Machines, Bill Buxton was working for Alias and is now at Microsoft. Linus Torvalds was working for Transmeta.<BR/><BR/>While each of these people did amazing work in their own right, very little of their aura rubbed off onto their employers and they pretty much have all reported how difficult it was to have their ideas digested within a larger organisation.Shalmanesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815101218462474784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-11754964629163420142009-01-14T05:50:00.000-05:002009-01-14T05:50:00.000-05:00For some reason, I have this feeling that if any l...For some reason, I have this feeling that if any luminaries are left in the wild - they are all scooped up by Google.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12193957817864777364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-2941563179654703272009-01-14T04:52:00.000-05:002009-01-14T04:52:00.000-05:00Nice post and I think much of the same effect can ...Nice post and I think much of the same effect can be achived without luminary hunting by simply encouraging the people in the organization to voice their oppionins and thoughts on blogs and the aggregating them like TW does at http://blogs.thoughtworks.com/ and the always extremly read-worthy objectmentor blogs at http://blog.objectmentor.com/<BR/><BR/>Im sure that the slight cost involved in supporting theese services are by far outweighted by the visibility they provide in the community.Torbjörn Gyllebringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440238354205811138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12467669.post-25019360262557519622009-01-14T04:38:00.000-05:002009-01-14T04:38:00.000-05:00I guess for all your self-righteous harping on "ne...I guess for all your self-righteous harping on "net negative producing programmers" you don't apply a similar standard to yourself as a blogger. Is it correct to infer that your reliance on IDEs means you don't need to bother with something as mundane as being able to correctly use the grammar of the language in which you write?<BR/><BR/>Thoughtworks really looks like an echo chamber. Or maybe it's more like a group of mutual masturbators (who can't write). Either way, it's really amazing to see how much energy you put into talking about how smart you and your employers are. Have you actually accomplished anything <I>interesting</I>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com