What beverage would you ask them to buy you? I'd ask for a Becks. What does that say about me? I dunno.
A beer snob beer, I guess, but not one of those uber-hoppy American microbrews. I'd take something Belgian or a hefeweizen.
Just need a hacker dude and we'll be rich
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Re: Just need a hacker dude and we'll be rich
#12Only a nonhacker would care about degrees...
Obviously, they're nonhackers, which is why they seek a "hacker dude." How would you advise nonhackers to evaluate hackers? I doubt there's really a good answer to that question. Looking for a degree is probably not the worst answer, though it may not be the best either (probably better than asking them what beverage they drink, which is presumably to establish their stuffwhitepeoplelike cred).
You have to know at least one hacker. Then you pay him to help you interview talent.
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#13You'll be the first true hire [...]
Hired people work for salary. The kind of people who qualify either command high salaries or shares.
Other than that it sounds like a nice job for a 20-year old hacker wanting to get some experience and buff up that resume in the process.
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#14What beverage would you ask them to buy you? I'd ask for a Becks. What does that say about me? I dunno.
Jaegerbomb = worldly, likes red bull, can hang with the corporate jocks, likes to mix things up, can handle the ups and downs of everything (you know upper and downers).
thats enough
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#15What beverage would you ask them to buy you? I'd ask for a Becks. What does that say about me? I dunno.
Becks says you enjoy beer, aren't a beer snob, but likely don't drink to excess regularly in my professional opinon. If you said Natural Ice...clearly either a drinking problem or stuck in the college days. Arrogant bastard? Beer snob. Smirnoff Ice? wtf?
personally i just go straight to the rubbing alcohol
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#16What beverage would you ask them to buy you? I'd ask for a Becks. What does that say about me? I dunno.
Jaegerbomb = worldly, likes red bull, can hang with the corporate jocks, likes to mix things up, can handle the ups and downs of everything (you know upper and downers). thats enough
i like that justification a lot, you're hired
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#17Interior decorating meets machine learning... I'm laughing right now, but I'm kinda interested.
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#18You'll be the first true hire [...] Hired people work for salary. The kind of people who qualify either command high salaries or shares. Other than that it sounds like a nice job for a 20-year old hacker wanting to get some experience and buff up that resume in the process.
You'll become part of the founding team; together we'll architect and realize Sproost's vision.
Suggests that a considerable amount of equity compensation could be involved.
But yeah, when they said "first hire", that was my thought as well -- they basically want a technical cofounder / chief architect sort of person.
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#19This looks like a reasonable advertisement for a first technical hire at a somewhat flaky startup self-evident web marketing competence. (yes, we're onto your game) What's the big deal?
but dude, machine learning! You will eat your words once Sproost makes Strong AI.
And uses it to, um, make interior design accessible to everyone. Just like we all secretly dream to do.
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#20Of the "I just need a hacker" posts, it's among the best.
Maybe it's still damned by its genre.