On: Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers

[sliverstorm]

You've never met someone with a stunningly sharp technical mind, but the social intelligence of a gnat?

[Cookingboy → sliverstorm]

I have, and I'd call that person smart. He could be unobservant, insensitive, socially awkward and all nine yards but he's still smart.

[sliverstorm → Cookingboy]

Colloquially that person would probably be called smart, but their (social) actions might be described as stupid. A smart person can be prone to doing stupid things.

[irishcoffee → sliverstorm]

A smart person can do stupid things, and a stupid person can do smart things.

This does not disprove GP's point. Rather, you seem to agree.

[CodeMage → sliverstorm]

Plenty of times. Heck, I used to be a lot closer to that end of the spectrum than I am now. That's how I know that there are plenty of words to describe that, because I've been called a number of them ;)