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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Is the technology open sourced?

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

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Ive had greak luck with the folks at Odesk, both for web development and things like market research.