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Re:Ask HN: Do you agree on these screening shortcuts when hi... by jesusmichael on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:42PM (#7629135)
* FULL DISCLOSURE * The "Truck Driver" was also a harvey mudd grad school dropout, who had a serious aptitude for math. He wasn't Bubba with a pocket donut... He was trying to make ends meet at the time and I gave him a chance.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you agree on these screening shortcuts when hi... by kjs3 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @03:31PM (#7629840)
On of the best Lisp programmer I ever picked up was a musician, who wasn't getting enough gigs. Had an advanced degree in Math from Carnegie Mellon, so I said "see if you can wrap your head around this and let's talk". Rest is history.
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