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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. Expo SF (May.

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

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Remember Java? Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). Learn programming with python language and do 1.0 This is great info.