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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After putting our family’s net worth into a spreadsheet one day, I was shocked to find out that my net worth was – $250,000. After working in architecture, furniture and design for 15 years, I came up with an idea that lead me into the NYC World of Tech and am now solving missed connections. #5 – Teaching.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. The same might be said of good software. We owe a lot to this seminal document. But what about Commodity?

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. what happens if we have a pipelined architecture? At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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