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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

I love being in New York City because I’m friends with an aerialist, social workers, doulas, cooks, teachers, actors, professional triathletes, bankers, lawyers, emergency service workers and sure, software developers, too. It takes a long time to build a truly thriving, world-class entrepreneurial tech community.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

The term Domain-Driven Design was originally coined by Eric Evans in his book, “Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” which came out in 2004, so this isn’t a new concept. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. Startups can submit their projects to Fing, which provides support to over 200 projects a year through events, programs, and access to a large network of resources.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. And I could not agree more, unless you really have millions of total customers that do not require software/hardware scaling and support, then you can make a living out of that 1 %. They have something around 20 employees.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0

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