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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Twitter Link Roundup #227 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Michael Moritz About Venture Capital – crowdspring.co/1kLoGb1. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. PHP vs Ruby vs Python: Three Programming Languages in a Nutshell | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1nJ16yT.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. This is particularly acute in New York City, where you have several industries undergoing serious disruption, a critical mass of creativity from the cross pollination of ideas, and lots of capital.

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

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But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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I have an interesting project idea, but it requires seasoned programming skills. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. I have a related dilemma.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

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