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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

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John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos. Thanks, Chris! Thanks, Adriano!

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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

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there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Joel Martinez.

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