Ask HN: How do you find "A" Players?

Friends, coworkers, and acquaintances. People whom you know how they work in different situations. I don't think resumes or karma points replace that.

If you are looking for talented programmers start contributing to some open source projects. You'll get to work alongside some very good people.

Go to hackathons, chat people up at bars, check out talks. Like passion tends to find like passion.

See what other people are working on, and if it looks fun join in. If you have your own project, pimp that. Maybe you'll join them or vice versa.

It's all basically just a pickup kickball game anyway, right? Have fun with it and don't be too serious.