Finding Great Developers

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Joel Spolsky

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Jun 4, 2022

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Where are all those great developers?
Can I get them anyway?
To the mountain, Jeeves!
Internships%2C they were in their dad’s home office trying to get the Linux kernel to compile. Instead of chasing girls in the playground%2C they were getting into flamewars on Usenet about the utter depravity of programming languages that don’t implement Haskell-style type inference. Instead of starting a band in their garage%2C they were implementing a cool hack so that when their neighbor stole bandwidth over their open-access WIFI point%2C all the images on the web appeared upside-down. BWA HA HA HA HA!)
Build the community (*hard)
Employee referrals: may be slippery when wet

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