# Programmer Needed For a Game Development Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 16, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087 "2006-08-16T01:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/1 "2006-08-16T01:25:08Z")
Programmer is responsible for writing Ruby on Rails code which will interact with both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Memcached, and paypal. Additional skills required are advanced Javascript, XHTML, and CSS knowledge. You will be working with other programmers to finish the project which is already in active development. Programmers with experience working on high traffic websites (5+ million pages views per day) is a plus. Job requires a minimum commitment of 30 hours per week. Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm and be fluent in both written and verbal english. AIM and Skype contacts are required. In closing, we would like someone who is reliable, can work well in a group setting, and doesn’t mind a challenge. If you think you’re the right person for the job, email removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid with a resume, AIM and Skype screen names. Thank You. ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/2 "2006-08-16T02:31:11Z")
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006, Adam M. wrote: > Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm… … Seriously? You’re joking, right? What difference could that possibly make? I can understand requiring certain skills, but typing speed? For a programmer? I’m sure I’m not the only one who would immediately pass on any job posting/offer that required a certain typing speed. Ben ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/3 "2006-08-16T02:43:11Z")
> > Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm… > > … Seriously? You’re joking, right? No. Of course we’re not joking. Our company exists within a very competitive market place. We are comitted to continuous improvement and everyone knows “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” And since measurement is hard, and our managers are so very busy, we’ve decided to measure the ‘low hanging fruit’ our wilting tape measures can reach. Might not want to stand too close to that apple ‘young fella’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/4 "2006-08-16T02:58:12Z")
On Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 07:41:22PM -0500, Bill W. wrote: > > > Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm… > > > > … Seriously? You’re joking, right? > > No. Of course we’re not joking. Our company exists within a very competitive market place. We are comitted to continuous improvement and > everyone knows “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” And since measurement is hard, and our managers are so very busy, we’ve decided to > measure the ‘low hanging fruit’ our wilting tape measures can reach. let me guess. you also measure your programmers by how many lines of code they write…and it’s not an inverse relationship… ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/5 "2006-08-16T14:56:10Z")
IBM used to pay by the kloc (1,000 lines of code) as a contractor, the more lines of code you wrote, the more you got paid…which is why bill gates went…WTF…the less memory my app uses the less I get paid??? screw that 10,000,000 lines of code it is… just like a bricklayer, [http://www.blogsaic.com/](http://www.blogsaic.com/) a blog mosaic ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/6 "2006-08-16T15:23:14Z")
* * * Rails mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/7 "2006-08-17T14:52:04Z")
Adam M. wrote: > Programmer is responsible for writing Ruby on Rails code which will > interact with both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Memcached, and > paypal. Additional skills required are advanced Javascript, XHTML, and > CSS knowledge. You will be working with other programmers to finish the > project which is already in active development. Programmers with > experience working on high traffic websites (5+ million pages views per > day) is a plus. Job requires a minimum commitment of 30 hours per week. > Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm and be fluent in both written and > verbal english. AIM and Skype contacts are required. In closing, we > would like someone who is reliable, can work well in a group setting, > and doesn’t mind a challenge. > > If you think you’re the right person for the job, email > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid with a resume, AIM and Skype screen names. > > Thank You. 80 wpm … what a maroon! LOL ---
**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/programmer-needed-for-a-game-development-project/65087/8 "2006-08-16T13:25:36Z")
i find it funny when recruiters call me and ask, so how many lines fo code have you written? like it doesnt matter if i write a hundred lines of an advanced algorithm to solve some complex problem vs writing thousands of gets and set statements. lol carmen wrote: > On Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 07:41:22PM -0500, Bill W. wrote: > > > > > Applicant must type faster than 80 wpm… > > > > > > … Seriously? You’re joking, right? > > > > No. Of course we’re not joking. Our company exists within a very competitive market place. We are comitted to continuous improvement and > > everyone knows “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” And since measurement is hard, and our managers are so very busy, we’ve decided to > > measure the ‘low hanging fruit’ our wilting tape measures can reach. > > let me guess. you also measure your programmers by how many lines of > code they write…and it’s not an inverse relationship…