Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect

a bit hard to read but this quote at the bottom is a gem: "Technical skills are a hygiene factor for architects. You need to have them to be accepted for the job. But emotional intelligence and ability to understand organizations are the skills that define how good you really are"

Dupe: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301115" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301115</a><p>Stripping utm_ get parameters would greatly improve HN's URL canonicalizer.

""Technical skills are a hygiene factor for [software] architects. You need to hav them to be accepted for the job. But emotional intelligence and ability to understand organizations are the skills that define how good you really are."<p>The above is true in all professions.