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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They may ask you to continue working and paying through the website, to boost their reputation there, or they may want to just go direct. This is good advice if youre working with incompetent developers (which is true more often than not). However, as the complexity grows, the pool of competent developers shrinks.

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

blog.expensify.com

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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