semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

happens when they realize that they dont have to think in columns and rows, and so they can manage non-tabular data just as easily. The shift in mindset happens when they consider a truly agile application, where e.g., the user interface is configured based on a query to the schema, while it is populated with data from the triple store.

Semantic 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. Communication.

San Francisco 146

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. Expo SF (May.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Especially the first section. I havent been able to do that on any of my projects yet!

CTO Hire 84

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Here your challenge is to convince that manager that you really can do the job at such low cost. Remember Java? Its more important that you just understand why your product exists, and how it manages to do so in relation to those (unique) start-ups which would just love to take your customers. Expo SF (May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Scanning / Document Management.

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