[ubuntu-uk] Where to find good labour

[Rhys Morgan]

michael at thedarkwinter.com wrote:
> 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.
I think you just described me to a tee including the 486 remark or it 
may have been a 386 but close enough and i was actually 9.