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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

While unique for the time, this public-private partnership was in-line with the wartime experiment of Vannevar Bush’s OSRD – using civilians in universities to develop military weapons. Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. ERA’s headcount grew rapidly.

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

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. More comments at the end. How about ABAPer?

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