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More blather from the guy who wanted devs to stay on for years in dead end jobs so people like him wouldn't discriminate against "job hoppers" and when he got

More blather from the guy who wanted devs to stay on for years in dead end jobs so people like him wouldn't discriminate against "job hoppers" and when he got thrashed on HN for that article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287110), wanted to give us advice on "How to improve civility on HN" (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/06/03/some-tips-to-improve-the-civility-on-hacker-news/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/06/03/some-tips-to-i...) which had its own discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400882 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400882. As for the article itself, summary -> "As many of your employees as possible should be collocated. I have weird preferences on which specific employees (with specific titles!) can and can't be co located and will fund only companies which meet those criteria." Useful nonetheless. Potential founders get fair warning on which VCs to run from.

msuster 16y ago
More accurate summary: author (me) believes that teams that colocate the three most critical people (CEO, VP Product & CTO) perform much better. I think some developers can be remote.
- kulkarnic 16y ago
  Some people still think that software is a handicraft industry and you can get by all the time playing it by the ear. I hope "the author" doesn't believe that his "weird preferences" are gospel enough to make funding decisions. At the very least, some background reading into actual research done on this topic would help. Start here: http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf
  - msuster 16y ago
    I don't have "weird" preferences - just ones that are different from yours. I don't play it "by ear" - I used to develop software myself and I built and sold two software companies. I accept other people's arguments and even change my opinion when they are compelling. You, sir, have made no arguments to the contrary other than name calling.

msuster 16y ago

More accurate summary: author (me) believes that teams that colocate the three most critical people (CEO, VP Product & CTO) perform much better. I think some developers can be remote.

kulkarnic 16y ago
Some people still think that software is a handicraft industry and you can get by all the time playing it by the ear. I hope "the author" doesn't believe that his "weird preferences" are gospel enough to make funding decisions. At the very least, some background reading into actual research done on this topic would help. Start here: http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf
- msuster 16y ago
  I don't have "weird" preferences - just ones that are different from yours. I don't play it "by ear" - I used to develop software myself and I built and sold two software companies. I accept other people's arguments and even change my opinion when they are compelling. You, sir, have made no arguments to the contrary other than name calling.