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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Meanwhile the biggest and fastest scientific computer companies were in Minnesota. Norris became the VP of Engineering, Engstrom the VP of Research, and Meader VP of Manufacturing. From the first day ERA started with contracts from the Navy OPS-20-G codebreaking group. Minneapolis/St.

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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. While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm.

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