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Python vs Node.js – Performance Analysis

The Startup Magazine

Knowing what backend to choose is not always easy, which is why it is important to assess the performance of the two options you are considering so you can find the solution that makes the most sense for you. In this post, we are going to look at the most popular solutions for backend development: Node.js and Python.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. I have found this quite rare in engineers. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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

blog.expensify.com

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 My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

Java 107
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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. Read some fun reviews of this site.

Cofounder 101
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.