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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Number of Users.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Software Engineering. Knowledge. Has used ORM tools. startupcto

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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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