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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

I’d bet anything that fewer students that participate in hackNY —will wind up in finance jobs relative to their computer science peers who just follow existing recruiting tracks. And yes, I’ve heard of the NYCEDC’s initiative to develop a new engineering and applied sciences campus. So where to start?

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Apache Spark Becomes Easy To Implement With These 7 Tips

YoungUpstarts

The Big Data world is quite familiar with Apache Spark- a powerful open-source processing engine which is mainly built around speed, incredible analytics, and ease of use. If you are working with Apache Spark then you would definitely know that it has 4 different APIs support for different languages including Scala, Python, Java, and R.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!).

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Why a Tech Startup is Like a Nuclear Power Plant

ReadWriteStart

It was summer 1986, the fall-out from Chernobyl was blowing over Europe and, after graduating in engineering science, I undertook a software development project for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. The startup financing system isn’t always set up to support this and can be harrowing for first-time founders of startups.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Java/Azure appliances will come in. After Goldman, ran startup Gadgetoff, which brought together inventors and entrepreneurs. Maria Gotsch.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Date first.

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