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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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More than a third of the global population has no access to traditional financial services. A customer can transfer money or pay for goods and services by sending an SMS , using a Java application or other mobile communication technologies. How is our global banking world affected by large pockets of our population that are unbanked?

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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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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. There is this drive to create something new, crazy, innovative and globally game changing. Malaysia tried but there simply wasn’t enough liquidity, or institutional demand.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

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And if you look at what percentage of the global population lives within commuting distance of one of our offices, it's a tiny fraction of the world, far less than 1%. Well, this Bitcoin white paper was describing another global decentralized protocol, but instead of moving information, it was for moving value around.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. It’s important you know the difference between Java and JavaScript, MySQL and MongoDB, front-end and back-end; I could go on. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com.