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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

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Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Software Cloud Project Manager. Software Engineer. Senior Ruby Engineer.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. As a person working for a company whose 1/2 income comes from selling flash banners on our site, responsive would be such a pain that you can’t imagine.

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

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I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. This was another 7k for me.

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

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My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups.