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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Can’t Code

David Teten

But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business.

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How Algorithms Rule The World

www.fastcompany.com

How Algorithms Rule The World. By Arnie Cooper | August 29, 2012. When Christopher Steiner, the 35-year-old cofounder of Aisle50 , a Y Combinator startup offering online grocery deals, set out to write the book Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World , ( out tomorrow ), he’d planned to focus solely on Wall Street.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. In other words, the Bright Score assesses how well-suited you are for a certain job.

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