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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network. Covered previously on RWW.) (E).

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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. 65 Reading rounding for Tue Aug 24: Freemium, how to grow a social network, a day in Obama’s life in ‘broken’ Washington, China swallows the stimulus and more | rahul gaitonde dot org on 08.24.10

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

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. They’ve tried everything. Sjoerd Franken.

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