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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. com running (check out the old snapshot, the domain hasn’t been mine since 2001). If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then. So what was 2look4?

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public.

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