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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors. The ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 development team pushed battery technology to the bleeding edge.

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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.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc. Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # 9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc.

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

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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