Dejan Lekic created the D Developers Network on LinkedIn

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jkprtm$1us3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 19:09:59 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>
>>> My idea when I made it was to gather professionals who use D
>>> *in production environments*
>>
>> Does that mean you shouldn't join if D only supports a product
>> going to production, and isn't officially software used in the
>> company?
>
> Everybody is welcome (otherwise I would make the group invite-only), but 
> the
> idea is to have more professionals there, than just enthusiasts who use D 
> in
> some toy project...
> New D users will either become professionals after some time of evaluation
> and adoption, or they will give up D. I honestly do not think the LinkedIn
> group needs people who forget D after few weeks of trying. :)

No argument with that.

> It is also
> misleading when a recruiter sees someone a member of the DDN who never 
> wrote
> any serious piece of D code. Do you agree?

That seems to be based on the false (but disturbingly common around 
drooling-HR-monkey circles) myth that a candidate with, for example, 10*X 
amount of experience in language Y is better than a candidate with X 
experience in each of 10*Y languages. Or at least it would seem to help 
propagate that myth.

HR-morons have this retarded idea that all programming langauges are 
completely different from each other and have very little transferrable 
skills, which of course, any real programmer knows to be an obvious load of 
complete bullshit. Besides, 9 tmes out of 10, the only thing those 
mouth-breathers in HR bother to look at is degrees (which, of course, is 
even more retarded).