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'Sanity' made me chuckle. It's important, but it's like listing 'not a serial killer'.

• pg 19y ago
  Serial killers are one in a million, if that, whereas I suspect at least 1% of good hackers are too crazy to work with.
  • amichail 19y ago
    This is probably true of people in any creative field.
    • Alex3917 19y ago
      From what I understand it's also multiplicative. So for example if someone were both a hacker and a painter...
  • palish 19y ago
    That's interesting. Can you say why you suspect that without naming names, or list some traits that would make someone too crazy to work with? Did anything specific happen at a company you can talk about? I can't think of anything that would qualify any of the dozen or so programmers I know as crazy. It'd be interesting to know what a crazy hacker is like.
    • far33d 19y ago
      If you haven't met the 1% he's talking about... it might be you :)
      • palish 19y ago
        It'd be arrogant to rule that possibility out, but I'm cheerful. Especially when I have dinner arrangements with Hannibal. Hey, wanna tag along sometime? We'd love to have a friend for dinner.
  • falsestprophet 19y ago
    I murdered a lot of people; lets get rich.