How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a business guy?

Re:How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a busines... by vaksel on Saturday March 14, 2009 @04:39PM (#516152)

The difference is that a good hacker can get the actual product out the door without bringing anyone else on board. A good businessman can't do anything without outside help.

BTW I say this as a business guy. Granted I know how to code a little. But I still need someone to code the site up, And don't bother finding a cofounder at that stage, for that early alpha, you need to rely on freelancers to get the job done, because finding a tech cofounder is next to impossible.

Why? Because every programmer gets approached once a week with "hey, I heard you know interwebz, help me code up my site and lets make billions!".

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Re:How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a busines... by Alex3917 on Sunday March 15, 2009 @07:32AM (#516766)

"A good businessman can't do anything without outside help."

Not true. The vast majority of reasonably to highly profitable businesses either don't have a product at all, or else have a product that involves no new technology. Businesses that require a hacker or an engineer are by far the exception. To the extent that the philosophy of Hacker News is wrong, it's mostly because it ignores that fact that for 98% of the people reading this site it would be more profitable for them to open a Korean grocery than to do a website.

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