> clearly Mr Cohen isn't working with superstar engineers,
I can't find where he works(wikipedia, his blog doesn't mention anything). But considering he is the inventor of BitTorrent protocol and wrote the first client, I assume he won't be working at a place where his team doesn't comprise of equally smart people.
Also, his point was your strategy shouldn't be to make counter-offers, but to optimize the salaries and workplace in a way that people don't feel they have to quit to get counter offers.
> But considering he is the inventor of BitTorrent protocol and wrote the first client, I assume he won't be working at a place where his team doesn't comprise of equally smart people.
I can't figure out what you're trying to say, but if you think there are enough programmers as smart as Bram to staff an entire company, you're a fool. And if you think they all want to work for Bram, you're doubly so. Lots of them want to start their own projects, not work on somebody else's.
> I can't figure out what you're trying to say, but if you think there are enough programmers as smart as Bram to staff an entire company, you're a fool
I am saying Bram Cohen isn't going to work at a place where grade school teachers tell him to settle down(an example picked from some other thread where someone was telling about grade school teachers managing a bunch of programmers).
He can be selective at this point in his career. He will most likely work with small teams with smart people, or big names like GOOG, AMZN et al. which are known for their superior engineering culture.
> And if you think they all want to work for Bram, you're doubly so.
You know, there are a lot of good engineers. He doesn't need all of them. Who gives a crap if all good engineers want to work for him or not, as long as he can find n good engineers who want to work with him.
PS: Take a breath. I would have done without your fool remarks.
You might think so, but I'm talking about people like Len Sassaman, L. Peter Deutsch, Richard Stallman, Dan Kaminsky, Ed Fredkin, Ian Hickson, Allan Alcorn, Zooko O'Whielacronx, Norm Hardy, Graydon Hoare, Ian Goldberg, and Richard Greenblatt — world-famous hackers I know, many of whom are dumber than Bram is. There probably aren't dozens and dozens more out there that I haven't heard of, let alone hundreds or thousands.
I can't find where he works(wikipedia, his blog doesn't mention anything). But considering he is the inventor of BitTorrent protocol and wrote the first client, I assume he won't be working at a place where his team doesn't comprise of equally smart people.
Also, his point was your strategy shouldn't be to make counter-offers, but to optimize the salaries and workplace in a way that people don't feel they have to quit to get counter offers.