Engberg is now Evernote's CTO. After dropping out of college, Libin was snatched up by ATG, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a corps of brilliant coders who were helping invent much of what would become standard e-commerce technology. Phil Libin remembers the moment he left childhood behind. He was 35. But at 3 a.m., users. MORE >>

Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. In some cases, coders will go into another room than the designers and the team leader. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week. Sixteen startups were created during the weekend. MORE >>

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it. JMiller. MORE >>

While this is not a requirement for hackerdom, those law and order types probably do not exhibit the attitude or coder chops that real hackers possess. One can attain big titles like VP of this or CTO of that.  Hacking might be jumping the shark.  Startups consistently talk about their desire to foster a “hacker culture”.  MORE >>

The rest of the room was filled with designers, coders, and especially designers who code. saw Marco Arment talk about building Instapaper on the side while he was CTO of our portfolio company Tumblr. You probably didn’t hear about Brooklyn Beta before Fred wrote about it : “This is my kind of conference. That’s kind of the point. MORE >>