Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. I’m not saying that a software engineer candidate shouldn’t code at an interview. Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. Far from it.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). You, a creative guy?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

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. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. This is great info.

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