Retrospectively ascribing success to character traits that we favour is subjective to the point of meaninglessness.
Earnestness, like any other trait or 'virtue' is not innate or absolute. Everyone has the capacity to exhibit this trait or be seen to exhibit it, when refracted through the non-objective lens of someone else's bias and perception. For example, a politician for partyX is seen to be an earnest 'straight man' who cares deeply by his supporters, while supporters of partyY view him as a reckless oaf.
To promote the use of personality traits as a predictor of success is naive at best.
Well, here is an article by a Nobel prize winner, reviewing a large amount of empirical evidence that personality traits predict success. See particularly section 4.
Years of picking through the pieces of other developers loosely documented homespun apps made me appreciate the value in a framework - even a dead or dying one. As a rule of thumb, if I'm developing a pet personal project, then I'll write it myself, if its work then I'll consider a framework, depending on the scope of a given project. In the real world of commercial web applications your project will very likely be touched by many other developers over time. Many of these developers may have a relatively fleeting engagement - i.e addressing one bug or adding one feature.I prefer not to force these developers to read the entirety of my code to do their job.
I wonder how many (besides myself) would not even apply for these jobs working with outdated framework? I imagine most would want something relevant to their career?
Frameworks might help with the bus factor but eventually they become the bus? (hit by the back of the bus? how visualize this?)
I think you are selling yourself short, I would really love to read your code. If the alternative is familiarizing myself with the horrors of [say] Angrular (no really, say it out loud) the choice is easy.
Maybe the job ad should demand the applicant to be familiar with CrapPOS. Then I would be like, hummmm interesting company? maybe? In stead of my usual aaaahhhhh no no not [say] Angrular (really say it out loud, say it really slowly twice)
> I wonder how many (besides myself) would not even apply for these jobs working with outdated framework?
I would think twice before applying to work with an outdated framework; I would think three times before applying if it said “you are going to be developing for our home-grown web framework” :)
Only if you are a major player which defines the de-facto in the industry.
Earnestness, like any other trait or 'virtue' is not innate or absolute. Everyone has the capacity to exhibit this trait or be seen to exhibit it, when refracted through the non-objective lens of someone else's bias and perception. For example, a politician for partyX is seen to be an earnest 'straight man' who cares deeply by his supporters, while supporters of partyY view him as a reckless oaf.
To promote the use of personality traits as a predictor of success is naive at best.