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		brianwawok on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: I am busy with too many things at once Maybe. But it is a legit chance someone wants a software engineer but doesn't want to teach an entire stack to someome. If you coded in C for your business and two identicAL in every way people applied.. one only knew ruby and one only knew C.. which do you hire?

mseebach on July 3, 2015 [–]

If you ended up in that situation, obviously pick the candidate more familiar with your stack, but that's a hypothetical, hiring in this business is not generally characterised by a glut of qualified candidates.

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