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if I'm the best you can do, you clearly don't have good skills at identifying programmers. Aren't you underestimating yourself? Most businesses don't need Knu
by ced 16y ago
if I'm the best you can do, you clearly don't have good skills at identifying programmers.
Aren't you underestimating yourself?
Most businesses don't need Knuths. They need "smart & gets things done". By my reckoning, you're way ahead of the average HNer (and myself) at this game.
- bconway 16y agoMost businesses don't need Knuths. They need "smart & gets things done". This can't be said enough. I so often see people get caught up on which technology, framework, or paradigm is right for a given idea (or worse, constantly revise them) that they get slowed down dramatically, or in extreme cases, deadlocked. I do it myself from time to time. Start by grinding something out and going from there.
- mahmud 16y agoFWIW, I think Patrick has shown far more business sense than actual programming. If I were to hire him, I would make sure he stays from actual coding as much as possible; that would be a waste of his talents and our time. Not "underestimating" his coding skills, it's just that his business sense far eclipses anything else he might be good at: programming, Japanese language, or competitive Polka dancing.