plodders

And for the plodders among us the answer is: libraries and patterns.

As a geek herder, just because my HPs are worth more, it doesn't mean I value my plodders less.

But the brilliant people are looking to the future while the plodders are dealing with today.

Out in the provinces, the job market for devs tends to be for plodders.

It's not going to be one of the 26-week plodders, because 14 weeks is 12 standard deviations out on their distribution (vs.

Yes, let's throw a few more $millions at well-credentialed plodders.

I'd say they need many fewer brilliant people because it takes a large number of plodders to bring their ideas to fulfillment.

Human organizations need a balance of brilliance and plodders.

They need a visionary, but they've got conservative plodders.

The programmers you find in most SMEs are probably not underpaid for their skill level and productivity though, they tend to be plodders, being paid to plod.

The plodders he wants are not well paid either.

Side 2 guys are the plodders, plodding along.

Companies that were terrible places to work were always looking for "plodders" -- people who spent a lot of time between switching roles (4 or more years).

HN is riven with plodders who just spew out memes like "Preprocessors are a code smell" or "correlation is not causation" with a relentlessness that would make Sisyphus say, 'well, you know, at least I'm not him'.

Don't be "that guy" who spends 10 hours a day on youtube and than has to spend 6 hours of overtime frantically trying to keep up with the 8-5 plodders, but you are literally failing in your obligation to your employer if every time you start to lower your nose to the grindstone you don't at least put forth a minimal google effort for a way to eliminate or automate or shrink the very grindstone you're about to impact.

Plodders such as myself will try to prototype.