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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich software development discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. The Getty, USC, The Grammys, MTV, and many more giant websites built in L.A.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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