On: Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

[jedberg]

We're almost ready to hire a couple of really awesome folk. Then we have to train them. Then they can be useful and help us make the site faster and more stable.

We're just really constrained on human time right now.

[adrianbye → jedberg]

so hire people you don't have to train. you have enough traffic to monetize a better team

[jedberg → adrianbye]

Even the smartest person in the world will have to learn our architecture and codebase, our processes, our logins, our machine names, etc.

No matter how amazing they are, I'm not giving them the root password on the first day or letting them redo the databases or write major code changes.

Everyone requires training.

[die_sekte → jedberg]

You obviously need Roger, the cokefiend. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065416)

[DuncanIdaho → jedberg]

Not in our company. </sarcasm>