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What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
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Re: What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Sanity' made me chuckle. It's important, but it's like listing 'not a serial killer'.
Serial killers are one in a million, if that, whereas I suspect at least 1% of good hackers are too crazy to work with.
This is probably true of people in any creative field.
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#13If you want a cofounder for a startup: sanity, trustworthiness, determination, general intelligence, hacking skills, and ability to do things you're bad at.
By sanity I'm assuming you mean serious horse's-head-in-the-refrigerator loopiness and not the sort of insanity that makes grown men construct trebuchets or think they can write novels. Also, I considered trustworthiness and honesty for that list but didn't include them because I think most people are honest and weeding out the remaining few may take time, but those are all good points.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Sanity' made me chuckle. It's important, but it's like listing 'not a serial killer'.
Serial killers are one in a million, if that, whereas I suspect at least 1% of good hackers are too crazy to work with.
That's interesting. Can you say why you suspect that without naming names, or list some traits that would make someone too crazy to work with? Did anything specific happen at a company you can talk about?
I can't think of anything that would qualify any of the dozen or so programmers I know as crazy. It'd be interesting to know what a crazy hacker is like.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serial killers are one in a million, if that, whereas I suspect at least 1% of good hackers are too crazy to work with.
That's interesting. Can you say why you suspect that without naming names, or list some traits that would make someone too crazy to work with? Did anything specific happen at a company you can talk about? I can't think of anything that would qualify any of the dozen or so programmers I know as crazy. It'd be interesting to know what a crazy hacker is like.
If you haven't met the 1% he's talking about... it might be you :)
Re: What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting. Can you say why you suspect that without naming names, or list some traits that would make someone too crazy to work with? Did anything specific happen at a company you can talk about? I can't think of anything that would qualify any of the dozen or so programmers I know as crazy. It'd be interesting to know what a crazy hacker is like.
If you haven't met the 1% he's talking about... it might be you :)
It'd be arrogant to rule that possibility out, but I'm cheerful.
Especially when I have dinner arrangements with Hannibal.
Hey, wanna tag along sometime? We'd love to have a friend for dinner.
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#17One I'd add: Resilience. The ability to have frustrating disagreements or problems and get past them easily without the build up of any residual resentment.
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#18I think you might be checking too many things, which will make it almost impossible to hire someone. I would just evaluate on A,C, E, F, H, K
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#19If someone has curiosity, good communication skills, and a modicum of coding skills, that's all you really need. Domain, platform, and computer science knowledge can all be acquired as needed. Compatible personality is moderately useful; however, you can always get around conflicts by partitioning the project into areas where you designate one or the other of you as the head overseer who gets dictatorial powers in that area.
Re: What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serial killers are one in a million, if that, whereas I suspect at least 1% of good hackers are too crazy to work with.
This is probably true of people in any creative field.
From what I understand it's also multiplicative. So for example if someone were both a hacker and a painter...