I subscribe to the Spolsky school of hiring: you need someone who's smart and gets things done. After all, any idiot can put together a neat website given a c

I subscribe to the Spolsky school of hiring: you need someone who's smart and gets things done. After all, any idiot can put together a neat website given a copy of "Learn Django in 21 Days". But is that person going to be able to move that site very far? Will they be able to understand other people's code? Now, I'm not sure I agree with the author's point of any business person being able to spot a good programmer. But I think that if such a thing were possible, this would probably be how such a list would look. But then again, we probably don't even agree on what a good programmer is. If there were an objective, standard way to find good programmers, articles like this wouldn't be necessary.