Monday, June 4, 2012

Mutual Assessment in the Social Programmer Ecosystem

Leif Singer and colleagues conducted an interesting study on how programmers evaluate each other.  A variety of online communities and status systems have helped strengthen the potential for assessing skill.

This could have significant influence on the future of job hunting and how engineers manage their careers.  It could also affect educational systems as these merit evaluation practices could eat into the value of traditional college degrees.

Mutual Assessment in the Social Programmer Ecosystem
HACKER NEWS | JUNE 2, 2012
http://blog.leif.me/2012/06/mutual-assessment/

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