Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a designer somewhere in central europe?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a desig... by Spyckie on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @06:08PM (#280910)

Q1: I would leave them alone for now. Sorry, but unless I know what my relationship is within the group, I would treat them like outsourced work (which means, I would avoid). There's just too many things that can go wrong - they may have gone belly up for a very good reason (ie - they maybe can't read the business trends or have no sense in user interface design).

If I were to do anything, I would help them find contract or consulting work and keep in touch to learn their capabilities - no need to rush into things.

Q2: Again, I would leave them alone, or I would give them the idea to work on (while leaving them alone). This is sounds like a recipe for disaster to me - a group of 4 people being given some work to do by an outsider, and the group of 4 doesn't like the idea enough to sacrifice for it...

If I'm missing some information that would change my views, please feel free to give it.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a desig... by nick_a on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @07:30PM (#280981)

hypothetically I've worked with them before and know all of them. and hypothetically they didn't go belly up as a group, they belonged to different parts of a large company that died because of... stuff that happened in japan... :-)

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