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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

Besides having a great animated graphic, yesterday’s New York Times “ Faking Cultural Literacy ” OpEd got me thinking about the role of verified data. A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So This imbalance keeps L.A. Big boy applications.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

We’re contact@socialmatchbox.com and we will be happy to get you in touch with the right recruiter or user group to talk to for networking purposes. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. bryce (2010-06-19) # Great post for getting the first step of a new business off the ground.