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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

He then dissects a simple SQL query ( DELETE FROM some_table WHERE id = 1234; ) and gives several quick reasons why performance could vary widely when this query is executed. We were working on a logistics project with a management consulting firm for one of the largest retail companies in the world.

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

blog.expensify.com

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. Matt Sherman.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Doing so does not take advantage of a software developers experience.