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15 million a piece. I don't know how long they were working on it but the very top billed actors tend to make, what, 20 million for movies that take ~3 years to make.
Top billed actors have an excellent chance of making their full rate on an average movie. Founders have an excellent chance of making nothing on an average startup.
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Hunch is not for sale. The founders have already sold companies before and have no desire to sell Hunch. We want to build it into a large company. hunch responded one year ago http://www.formspring.me/hunch/q/1392572735
> Hunch is not for sale. All companies are for sale.
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I think we need to move away from all the nonsense of "A-level engineers" or superstar developers and so and so and so. Carl Henderson of Flickr fame looked like an A-level engineer back then (especially with his O'reilly book) yet some of the Flickr engineers baffled when they saw the Flickr codebase. Sometime it's all smoke and marketing hype.
A few years ago I met a 'superstar' type developer who was considered hot shit amongst the usual crowd. I met him with a view of hiring him (or, trying to) mostly because of his reputation. I think i must have been the first person who really drilled into his knowledge, because he was more interested in talking about who he knew, projects he had been associated with etc. I got a funny feeling about him, and asked tha…
Josh Bloch admitted himself that he's kind of not really "up"-ing his knowledge/skill when it comes to tools (git, eclipse, intellij, etc) but he writes damn good code with just Emacs.
He knows his Math & Stats to debunk benchmark and stuff like that and he knows the pitfalls of complexity.
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A few years ago I met a 'superstar' type developer who was considered hot shit amongst the usual crowd. I met him with a view of hiring him (or, trying to) mostly because of his reputation. I think i must have been the first person who really drilled into his knowledge, because he was more interested in talking about who he knew, projects he had been associated with etc. I got a funny feeling about him, and asked tha…
It's kind of hard to judge this superstar developer you mentioned based on his knowledge of some of those UNIX tools. Josh Bloch admitted himself that he's kind of not really "up"-ing his knowledge/skill when it comes to tools (git, eclipse, intellij, etc) but he writes damn good code with just Emacs. He knows his Math & Stats to debunk benchmark and stuff like that and he knows the pitfalls of complexity.
he also fell apart in the code test, which was pretty simple (using a library I had written, which he made a copy of and edited). I have no idea how this guy got his reputation, but it seemed to be more amongst non-tech tech people, if you know what I mean (who are easier to bullshit, I guess)
when I started my career I worked with a bunch of old IBM mainframe guys who had no idea about modern web stuff but were some of the best programmers I have ever met. I could take a problem to them in a language they didn't know (so for eg. VB.NET) and they would talk me through it.