[BangPypers] [chennaipy 1126] [XPost][Slightly OT] Could you share your experiences about Python Freelance programming, from a programmer's perspective

kracekumar ramaraju kracethekingmaker at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 18:45:44 CET 2011


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> Don't get me wrong, I'm not discounting engineering skills; we're all on
> the same side there. What I was hinting at above is that if you get lucky
> and get good managers at a mid-to-large co, you have the opportunity to
> learn how organization in the large works, and that's an important skill
> too.
>

Note: You reminded me of my favorite line "People don't leave organization
, they leave managers".


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> That said, I should clarify, when I say, 'spend the first couple of years
> maintaining somebody else's crap code', I say that from personal
> experience. Maintaining something you didn't build teaches you a lot about
> the importance of building good readable, maintainable, malleable code. I
> know I write good code because I don't want people who end up maintaining
> it (myself included) to go through the agony I had to back then. That's
> probably one the biggest takeaways I have from back there; and that was
> what I was primarily pointing to.
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>
In most support project you don't change code until there is a requirement
from client, else you end up supporting the tickets etc...

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