> Since we're taking Silicon Valley metrics seriously Umm... Colorado? We're more than a thousand miles as the crow flies or 20 hours of driving away from Sil

> Since we're taking Silicon Valley metrics seriously Umm... Colorado? We're more than a thousand miles as the crow flies or 20 hours of driving away from Silicon Valley. More to the point: If the rest of the team is in US time zones, coordinating with an Eastern European developer is much harder. It means someone has to stay up really late or get up really early, and typically you still don't get much overlap. Granted if such a brilliant developer who needed very little input from the rest of the team were to apply, they'd do well to hire them. But as the other comment mentions, how do you find such a developer on demand?