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Well. I've been a CTO of a company that had 1200 employees and 80 of them were mine. I probably hired more developers in one year than that guy has in his life. I really never gave a shit or two about what OS my developer had on his laptop. Since he probably had what worked for him in his personal space. I had development groups with project managers they called the shots with the producers and stakeholders on what t…
* FULL DISCLOSURE * The "Truck Driver" was also a harvey mudd grad school dropout, who had a serious aptitude for math. He wasn't Bubba with a pocket donut... He was trying to make ends meet at the time and I gave him a chance.
On of the best Lisp programmer I ever picked up was a musician, who wasn't getting enough gigs. Had an advanced degree in Math from Carnegie Mellon, so I said "see if you can wrap your head around this and let's talk". Rest is history.