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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. Join the Triple Nine Society for example and you’ll meet some of them (there are great coders there too). Be ready to sit down and create working code. You don’t have a laptop? That’s a handicap, but not a big deal. You can use one of our Macbooks. People, get with the times.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. What is Drupal? Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

And you can have any developer using their existing language preference from C# to Java to Facebook chatbots to build their own bots to simply parse the statement from the blockchain and sign with keys.

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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). So, for 2-3 months, I spent 50% of my time coding Java, and 50% doing manager tasks. Meetings cost them more.

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. 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 The very last comment takes the cake, however, and is a fitting close.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). Too many people leave their business decisions to coders and designers.