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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. However, we’ve often had to put up with unreliable service, caused by their inflexible internal architecture.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Be succinct.