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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices. Let's move on, shall we?

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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Remember Long Term Capital?

BeyondVC

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997. And the hedge fund performed spectacularly.

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