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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. With all of those companies gobbled up the market is now focused on the next generation startups like TasteMade, MiTu Network, StyleHaul and so forth.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands how networks work, understanding of network protocols and socket level programming. Software Engineering. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. 2 n (Level 0) n 2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments. J Date, Thinking Forth, Little Schemer.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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