[ubuntu-uk] Where to find good labour

[Michael Holloway]

The way i see it, there are 2 types of compter poeple: "Geeks", and
"Comptuter Experts". (and no offence to those who dont like the term
geek)

A Geek doesn't like to be told how/why things work - he/she like to
figure things out... so probably no university degrees etc.
A Computer expert has done 5 years in university and has a list of
expertise etc...

When it comes to crunch time, sit the two of them in front of two
machines with the same problem:

1. The geek takes 30 minutes to fix it.
If the expert has studied the problem, he can fix it in 10 minutes. If
he has not, he cant fix it.

Thats a rather big generalisation... but it gives caution to the hiring
process when half of your systems run a lot custom built apps/server
software.

I much rather hear from a potential that he/she had put ther first
computer together at the age of 10, and was writing DOS batch scripts to
free up the extended memory in order to start games on an old 486
etc..., than to hear that they have studied "point-and-click" techniques
(courtesy Paul) for the last 5 years, and know it like the back of their
hand.

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