[coldtea]

>Me too. Besides, what makes me think that the "lead software engineer" (LSE?) for any company reads TC? Most LSEs wouldn't even know what it is. Seems a strange thing for him to have said.

This does not even make sense.

Where do you see even the slightest incompatibility of being a LSE for a company and reading TC?

[ScottWhigham]

TC, at it's inception, was a company about and for the startup community. LSE at a large corporation is about as far from the startup community as you can get. As I said, most LSEs wouldn't even know what it is.

[coldtea]

Google is a large corporation. Apple is a large corporation. Yahoo is a large corporation. Still, I bet you their LSE know fully what TC is.

LSE's often leave large corporations to create their own startups. Or have created their own startups in the past (think Brad Fitzpatrick, for example). Or the want to move on to management (which is were knowing the market is beneficial, and TC helps).

Perhaps when you hear LSE you have some ancient, bureaucratic, enterprise, just finishing replacing COBOL with Java in mind, and mindless J2EE programmer drones. But not all --or even most-- LSEs are like that. And said company, Manwin, is as far from the typical bureaucratic old enterprise as you can get.