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

blog.expensify.com

Expensify Blog. 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.

Java 107
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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. Coincidence?

Cofounder 101
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.