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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by tomjen3 on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:28AM (#2390796)
In hiring a false negative means your competition gets a better programmer which means they will be able to eat your lunch.

How isn't that a disaster?

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Re:When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log ov... by mooism2 on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:42AM (#2390819)
Maybe.

If a false negative means you have no awesome candidates to choose from, that's a problem.

If a false negative means you have two awesome candidates to choose from instead of three, that's irritating but hardly a disaster.

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