Certification does have its merits. I know this analogy is not
quite correct but its the only one that comes to mind. Would
you have a nurse or a doctor treat your abdominal pains? I rather
not have the abdominal pains in the first place but I rather
have the doctor treat me than the nurse. If money was not an
big issue, would you have a plumber or a certified plumber
working on your broken bathroom pipe?
Sadly but true that a lot of "certified" professionals whatever
out there are who are not really deserving of the title "certified ...".
How, as a business owner, manager, etc., determine whether or not
you are as good as you say you are? Its difficult unless you
personally know him.
I believe that certification is a good thing. It gives a
field of expertise credibility. It can make it attractive for
people to choose a field of study.
My question is now:
Is it possible for a open source community to certified each other?
Is it credible?
Flames welcome,
..todd
>
> > Somebody wrote:
> >
> >> > If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable
> >> > brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I
> >> > don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to figure
> >> > out my wife . . .
> >
> > You're way off base. Figure out the wife. I've never hired a "certified"
> > engineer, and almost without exception the ones I've come across were empty sacks
> > of shit.
> >
>
> I'd have to concur. A certificate means you can pass a test, it doesn't mean you
>can code your way out of wet paper bag. I consider myself a very good coder, but I
> don't do well on true/false, multiple choice, and similar kinds of tests. I've also
>done hiring, and in my previous job, I regularly did peer interviews. I can discover
>far more about a person's abilities by talking to him or her for a few minutes and
>exploring some hypothetical ideas and/or programming scenarios or just talking about
>stuff they've written.
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