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A comment on Ask HN: Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee?.

Re:Ask HN: Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee? by pshapiro on Sunday July 31, 2011 @06:38PM (#2829893)
Why would you want passion? The thing you should look for is interest. Passion only means that they don't have the necessary information to tell if what they are doing is reckless or not.
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Re:Ask HN: Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee? by rameshnid on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:49AM (#2831058)
Interesting.let me clarify my case. What I have seen so far is that most developers around want to ship 3 products a year for 3 different industries. They are all over the place. Cannot commit to solving a specific problem for a specific industry for an extended period of time.

So my thinking is maybe if the guys are passionate about the problem/ industry and not just interested in learning to do a lot of stuff, we would have a better shot at succeeding.

Correct me if there is a flaw in my understanding.

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