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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? Can you imagine a tool from Microsoft that supported ClearCase, ran inside Eclipse, and had excellent support for Java?).

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

blog.expensify.com

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox.