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"""All this cash floating around also seems to lead to startups sucking up all the best talent. Do coding geniuses really need to be working on photo-sharing ap
by dextorious 15y ago
"""All this cash floating around also seems to lead to startups sucking up all the best talent. Do coding geniuses really need to be working on photo-sharing apps, as opposed to, say, rocket programming?"""
Good point. But for all the "how to hire the best" articles moving around related to startups, I don't see many "coding geniuses" there, and have yet to see a significant contribution to OSS or CompSci coming from a "social" startup.
Mostly fresh-out-of-college, no-real-world-experience, lets-use-what's-shiny types...
Someone like Brad Fitzpatrick runs circles around these guys.
- sunchild 15y agoThe problem, in part, is that VCs want naive, unfettered young people. The VC model has sort of evolved into a kind of talent betting pool. If you're sophisticated enough to have a proven track record, you're probably also more sophisticated about retaining equity and control.
- lucisferre 15y agoRocket programming? Really? Regardless, one persons useless website is often another person's invaluable tool. Not to say there isn't a lot of waste out there, but I doubt everyone getting hard to work on "rocket programming" will solve that problem. We'd just have a lot of crappy "rocket programs".