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

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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. The list goes on and on.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

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If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. Why we use and contribute to open source software. Posted by Adrian Cockcroft. at 2:41 PM. Email This BlogThis! Netflix Tech Blog.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Use Sendgrid!