Just a minor point about hiring young developers. I was first employee in a start up before I even finished high school. A real start up, with backing from a t

Just a minor point about hiring young developers. I was first employee in a start up before I even finished high school. A real start up, with backing from a top VC and an amazing founding team. On the interview I looked eager to start getting shit done. I was super enthusiastic, asked hard questions, trash talked technologies - I looked like I actually knew what I was doing! Then I went home and started to learn all those three letter acronyms they talked about. You have to check that people can actually code. I'm not talking about algorithms, I'm talking about string truncation, url shortening service, time_ago_in_words - some programmers do know how to oversell themselves.