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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Meanwhile the biggest and fastest scientific computer companies were in Minnesota. 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. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed.

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

blog.expensify.com

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. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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