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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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

blog.expensify.com

LOL, I just realized the search on your site is powered by Bing… I believe this is what we call irony. My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. As somebody who is about 50/50.NET Like what?!

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