"Can they write a little code? Do they have enough experience to be able to deploy code somewhere? (An[sic] fairly good test we've found of whether or not some

"Can they write a little code? Do they have enough experience to be able to deploy code somewhere? (An[sic] fairly good test we've found of whether or not somebody is a "hacker". Hackers have playgrounds.)" I guess you could assume a negative correlation there (no playground == not a 'hacker'), but I doubt there's an equally strong positive correlation. I know plenty of people with a VPS or in-home sandbox server whom I wouldn't put in the 'hacker' category (myself included).