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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb.

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

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Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x Is Yelp a good place to find good technical co-founders? Is Google Inc. Albert Lai • Nov 8, 2010 You've got the wrong approach entirely; an A/B test wouldn't what you need in this case.