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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Adobe has done it with Flash and PDF. June 5, 2012.

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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.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. The easier communication and better quality developers will often outway the added cost.

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

www.quora.com

I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner. Even a beginner and mediocre developer can instill life into your mock-ups and bring the MVP live. Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x If you can pay him, Scriptlance is the freelancing board to go to.