Joe Stump, a startup engineer and CTO, writes about hiring, cloud hosting, benchmarks, NoSQL, and running engineering teams.
HN commenters link his posts on hiring developers, the AGPL, and his satirical Yahoo CEO application; one dislikes a comment in a hiring piece.
I read the linked article and was immediately turned off the by narrowed minded comment under cons. Just because someone disagrees with the authors personal political ideology does not necessarily make them narrow minded. If he was simply talking about racists, bigots, and the like then you can find those in any city as large as Atlanta.
This author based his idea on the post here:
http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-sucks-and-so-does-mine.html
I disagree with a lot of what the author said were cons of Boulder. In a pro he says good ski slopes are 3 hours away, but a con is Denver is too far. Huh? Denver is plenty close enough to Boulder to drive to for a concert or to see a professional sporting event if that's your thing.
The cold really isn't that bad here either. Does it get cold in the winter? Yes, but it's not unbearable like Chicago or any other mid-western city. When the sun comes out it really does feel much warmer here. I was in Oregon not long ago and I had forgotten how miserable the wet cold feels even when the thermometer says it's not that cold.
Now I gotta jet because I only live 1:30 away from good snow and it's opening day at Keystone :D
"We" looks like a bunch of Twilio people.
Jeff, it might speed things up to bring on Joe Stump as the next Y! CEO - he's applied in the past so they're already familiar with his style (http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html) He also looks a lot like this Sean McQuillan fellow. An awful lot alike. Weird...
Anyways I'll take 15% of his first year's salary to make the intro, and I'll donate half to Charity: Water. Deal?
based on this, it shouldn't take more than half a day under the worst circumstances (single EBS drive with crappy performance), and if you Raid together enough drives, you can do it in about an hour. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you pay for EBS by size, not physical disks, so the more you can split up your data in blocks, the more performance you're going to get.
http://stu.mp/2009/12/disk-io-and-throughput-benchmarks-on-amazons-ec2.html
Just stumbled on these links while reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253411 . While not strictly about interviewing, they might be of interest to you in your quest for developers:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html
http://stu.mp/2010/03/howto-recruit-rock-stars.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451216/how-to-recruit-great-developers
I think this is a decent summary. http://stu.mp/2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html