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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

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Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. systems programming Doesnt know what a compiler, linker or interpreter is Basic understanding of compilers, linker and interpreters. Software Engineering.

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

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Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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

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But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. I’ve used Compact.NET (in pre-iPhone era), GUI programming for windows, and games with XNA.

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

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I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. You don't need a self-designated 10x imbe. Or going to design classes. Or reading books.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! 2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. mockingbird? Bless you, chile!