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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. Then, in 2000, after five crazy years where founders could attract millions in venture capital based on little more than a good URL, the dot-com bubble burst. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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