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

blog.expensify.com

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. For instance, dropping pre-built widgets into WebPages without any understanding of the underlieing technology (HTTP, HTML etc.). March 26, 2011 at 10:22 am. Joel Martinez.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Every requirement, idea, UI widget, is a box. Learn programming with python language and do 1.0