Re: Request for input from someone who has hired or managed an ex-hacker

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 19:02:30 GMT

In article <qvvJd.283893$6w6.130447@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
TC <no-spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
:I'm writing an article about hiring hackers. I need input from someone
:who has hired or mangaged a hacker.

I would suggest that for responses to be meaningful, you need
an additional question aimed at clarifying what the respondant
means by "hacker".

The greatest difficulty I have noted with hackers is getting them
to -stop- working and take a break. The second greatest difficulty
would perhaps be to get them to focus on just one thing instead of
exploring tangents or working on many things at once. Perhaps I
am merely projecting my own failings onto others ;-) but I think
these to be more categorical truths.

But then, I'm a hacker from the days when "hacker" meant little
more negative than "Judged most likely to practically *live*
on pizza deliveries." 

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