Hire people who aren’t proven

You have to go after people that aren’t proven, and you need to be really good at evaluating them with much less data points.
Don’t hire like the big companies, they have thousands of candidates and need an objective baseline to judge them.
Try to find an answer to:
- Can this candidate do the job?
- Will this candidate be motivated?
- Will this candidate get along with coworkers?
- What will this candidate be in three, six, and twelve months from now?
How do they respond to real-world problems?
Look for vectors like smartness, attitude, motivation, dynamic learning, courage.
Comments on HN:
- Being a good programmer/doctor: be passionate about the craft and love the profession.
- Empathy is not part of CS, but it is important in software engineering. Much of the day-to-day work includes discussing/making decisions, learning about how things work from people with a different set of knowledge, doing things which optimize for the understanding of other people after you,.
- “Passionate” in programming is shorthand for “cares for quality” and “will improve on their own”.

The Open-Closed Principle, in Review

The idea of OCP was that a class’s implementation could only be modified to correct errors; new or changed features would require a different class be created. Reusing: inheritance, or same interface.