thanks
Rajib

You said – If I know Bill Gates, chances are higher that I know others in the team like “steve ballmer” or “paul allen”.

Not really. We believe in reality not in chances.
Chances occur rarely. If it is that why you want to bet?

But in reality, people do not know the name of the inventor and this is a worldwide trend.

My room is full of lots of things and I love most of them.
But I do not know who invented them.
May be I am a bad guy.

I read thousands of books in my life.
But still I do not know who invented printing machine.
Again no bad feeling for that.
PHP MySQL may give me a living. But the books gave me more than a living.

And again “Bill Gates”, “steve ballmer” or “paul allen” are the heros.
You are forgetting the most brilliant people who made Microsoft products in reality (and their names will never be known by you and me).

Why do you love super successful people so much?
I think I know.
Because you are a super successful person yourself.
May be you get a psychological match.
At your age, very few people in Bangladesh can imagine to achieve all the things that you have already achieved.
Do I sound real rather than on chances?

Would you be insulted by all the brain teasers that Microsoft and Google use in their interviews just because you don’t “get it”? A lot of the puzzles show how much you really understand certain topics like searching and sorting, but at first glance most people would pass it off as being elitist.

And if you’re a developer and have ever read an article or book on your craft, you’re bound to come across the names of Lerdorf, Widenius, Resig, etc. Or at least before going to an interview make sure you figure it out by the time your interview starts. If anything it’ll help, not hurt your case.

By the way, anyone else read the rumors of Widenius’s resignation from Sun? Oh wait, you guys do know that Sun bought out MySQL right? LOL.

thanks for commenting and I partially agree on you. you got the point of what i was trying to say (though you didnt agree with me literally), heh heh, if someone dont even know bill gates, then how would you expect that he will know “steve ballmer” or “paul allen” – you bet?

if you dont know anyone of the team, the leading one in most cases, i assume that you dont know anyone of the rest. but if you know that one, chances are higher that you know others from the team

hope i made you leaning towards my view

From my childhood, I have used lots of things. From video games to train. Was anything less important than PHP or MySQL? Or is my Cell Phone not that important? Or the medicines that saved my life last time when I was very sick?

Or the bank currency that I am using everyday?
I cannot see anything without my glasses from class nine. Are my glasses less important than PHP or MySQL?
I do not know who invented glasses or bank currency or the medicines.
And I did not and will never feel bad for that.

Please do not take it personally.

To me, there is is no single person behind any invention. Behind PHP or MySQL of course there was a team. Alas! We make the team lead angel and forget the rest!

Bill Gates of Microsoft is the global hero. But the most brilliant people from all over the world who worked for Microsoft will not even get a line in the History book. Their names will never come light.

That is the real shame!

and you have noticed my number, right? you have noticed that there is a meaningful word in my phone number – no matter whether it’s ‘phpguru’ or ‘asshole’ it will help people to recall my number easily. give me a call when you are free, not between my 7PM to 3AM and I am GMT+6 fyki.

see ya.

anyways, if you’re going to be a stickler over such a non-issue, you’ve probably done all those former candidates a favor by not hiring them.

i just looked at your resume. your fucking phone number is +880-161-phpguru? bwahahaha

Who invented the popcorn maker what you don’t know ? Go fuck yourself, nobody needs to know who invented shit .

If they can do the job they are more than qualified, now, go fuck yourself fuck face.

or she.

I personally like to know about the personality behind the creator of a language, for example, I like knowing and being able to attribute this quote: “You will be miserable until you learn the difference between scalar and list context…”
to Larry Wall.

But I wouldnt use it as a basis to hire someone I dont think.

I can develop high end ajax application, and also don’t know who is creator of this.

In interview, I never ask similar question and judge them. I’m not sure weather you can get the real qualified developer with such a kind of unrelated question

Expecting an appreciate for sources of knowledge and a deeper appreciation of tools and materials is fine, but that sort of understanding doesn’t necessarily lie in simply knowing who made what tool. Indeed, some might argue that it is little more than stamp collecting.

As a designer, I select and employ typefaces every day with the same level of thought and dedication that you apparently expect from your fellow programmers, yet I don’t know who originally designed most of those typefaces. I feel pretty slick just for being able to actually name a good number of those typefaces. Nonetheless, I don’t kid myself about that sort of mechanical recall having anything to do with my sensitivity to the design decisions I am making regarding type.

I hope that what you are saying hear is more of an attempt to reveal your credo than your actual practice. If you have indeed routinely “shown the door” to would-be collaborators and colleagues who might otherwise inform and challenge your own aesthetic growth for so misplaced a reason, I can assure you that you have done yourself more harm than them.

“PHP is not a new language. It doesn’t introduce any new concepts. This means that training programmers who already know any C, C++, Perl, or even Java to write PHP code is quite easy. I tend to look for people with C or C++ skills when I go looking for PHP developers for a project, the thinking being that you are much better off hiring experienced programmers than you would be if you hired someone who necessarily knows a lot about PHP. If they can handle those languages, PHP will be trivial for them. Of course, if they have experience with both, so much the better.”

- from one of his famous article, “Do You PHP?”

Shame on you

BTW hasin, what the salary range was ?

If that’s higher one [Ok, compare BD rate ], may be you are right, pick only passionate one. Otherwise, don’t be silly …

That much anger not good for coding!! LOL