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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. 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

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As a language, its inelegant. Every other system Ive seen has some drawback like this.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. The system counts how many words are in each document.