Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

According to Gene Wirchenko <genew@mindlink.bc.ca>: :lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote: : : :>According to Willy Berghorn <willy@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de>: :>:Nikolay Dichev (cdsipbs@the-hermes.net) wrote: :>:: snip here :>: :>:Exactly ! And what's about the EQ (in contrast to the IQ) ? :>:Will someone be more valueable if he is able to work in a team ? :>:Some questions will only be solved in a (so called) "team spirit" ! :>:So a new question arises, how can one measure the "value" of a person ? :>:And I mean, what is more desirable, a person that hides himself in a :>:dark room ( although he is genious ) or a person that will have full :>:communication to other team-members ? :>: : :>I guess it depends on whether you want to have lots of parties, or lots :>of products. The genius in a dark room probably will be able to produce :>a lot more code than someone who sits all day 'communicating' around the :>water fountain or coffee machine. : : Cheap shot and uncalled for. Sorry you feel that way, but I feel that most of this thread has been baseless cheap shots. Somehow the idea that a person who 'hids himself in a dark room' is an inferior employee and that someone who 'will have full communication' is a superior one, the idea that having a degree somehow makes one a better choice for a job, etc. -- :s Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org :s <URL:http://www.teraform.com/%7Elvirden/>; <*> :s Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should :s be construed as representing my employer's opinions.