Re:Immigration to increase the supply of programmers
by gaius on Friday January 02, 2015 @12:51PM
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We don't require surgeons or airline pilots or bridge-designing civil engineers to be rock stars. Exactly why do people think you need a rock star programmer to build, I dunno, eBay for cats or whatever is the latest stupid VC fashion?
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Re:Immigration to increase the supply of programmers
by 31reasons on Friday January 02, 2015 @01:22PM
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Lot of startups are just looking for superstar programmers because they want to get the most out of their limited funding.
But without proper product-market fit its even counter productive. Superstar programmer is like a sports car, he/she will take you 10x faster in the wrong direction if your direction is wrong.
Re:Immigration to increase the supply of programmers
by asocial on Friday January 02, 2015 @01:11PM
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Even if you only run eBay for cats, you probably secretly believe you can become the equivalent of Facebook in your particular space, and feel that what you need is a room full of the eBay for cats version of Mark Zuckerberg, making the billion dollar magic happen on the cheap.