petesalty

A while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467) scottru posted a Google speadsheet for HN contractors. I was curious, did anyone who posted there get a contracting gig out of it?

I have a number of candidates I have to interview over the next two weeks and it's been a while since I've interviewed anybody. In the past one of my favorite tests for candidates is to build a basic programming language with the candidate. It's a lot of fun and really demonstrates core knowledge.

I was wondering what other people like to do and have found successful.

[EDIT] Sorry, should have said this is for a Ruby on Rails engineer.

Great design can be hard, and lots of startups don't have the money to pay for fantastic designers. That hasn't stopped some of them - who, in your opinion, has great design.