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

[adrianbye]

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>