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		mkramlich on Feb 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your sit... Exactly. I know a recent startup that did their initial build-out in Lisp. Then the CTO left, for whatever reason, and then the remaining leadership team seemed to decide to rewrite the stack in Java. They probably thought, "Hey it will be easier to find people." Yes, it will be easier to find bad people. Are their great Java people? Of course. But the total number of resumes you're going to have to wade through, and the ratio of bad to good, is going to be much higher with Java than with Lisp.

alnayyir on Feb 16, 2011 [–]

Moving from .NET to open source improved the quality of code and people I worked with.

A lot.

>rewrite the stack in java

A rewrite was a bad idea to begin with. They shot themselves twice in the same leg. GG guys.

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