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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. “I’m now making double my salary thanks to the knowledge gained.”

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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

Web developers need to have a wide range of skills and knowledge, including: Knowledge of various coding languages such as C+, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and HTML markup. Web programmer salaries vary based on the amount of work they’re doing so full-stack developers logically make the most. Client service and support.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

salary, benefits). I don’t care if this person is going to spend 60 hours a week writing inscrutable code that only a Ruby interpreter could love. .” It’s better to make a strong decision that turns out wrong , and admit it, than to plan ahead or wait for instructions. Potential earnings (e.g.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. So 15 people at an average salary of $110,000 and you’re looking at about $1.65

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Why Data Scientists Choose Python

YoungUpstarts

According to Glassdoor, the average salary of a data scientist in the US is $120,000. Ruby is another language whose syntax is nearly as intuitive and simple as Python, but data scientists prefer Python to Ruby because Python features far more machine learning and data science libraries and resources than Ruby.

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