caliber

Hiring talent is risky when you don't know the caliber.

To bring it back to the OP question, "are all engines of that caliber that size or is this one special?

I worked there 10 years ago, when they were closer to 200 engineers, and the caliber of people there at that point was insane.

I'm wondering if someone of Github's caliber can be hacked so easily, what about the rest of the masses developing web apps.

Therefore, their motivation is to switch jobs very often and do the same caliber/quality work, and yet make more money with each switch.

That has long-term consequences for the caliber of military leaders.

And also the amount of programming talent, drawn from all over Europe, is of the highest caliber imaginable.

Nothing wrong with being a consultant, but COO-caliber consultants charge a heck of a lot more than employees in SF and everywhere else on the planet.

But surely Apple deserves to be compensated for all the development work they did. Who's going to develop the next iPhone caliber innovation if the only reward they'll receive is to become the wealthiest company in history?

I'm not nearly the caliber of firm the NYT would stake their future livelihood on by engaging for this kind of work, but even absent that, the minimum possible scope for that SEO engagement blows $10k out of the water.

Diveroli refused, but he couldn't resist bragging about his exploits; as agents recorded his every word, he talked about hunting alligators and hogs in the Everglades with a .50-caliber rifle.

One problem with the HN posts about how universities are wasteful, unnecessary, and so on, is that a pretty small percentage of people are willing to do university-caliber work without the structure of the university.