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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

When looking for a data scientist, the default approach for many companies is to go after software engineers with a strong interest in statistics, data mining and machine learning. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. Finding a data scientist is hard.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. Top firms want fiercely ambitious product managers who possess a deep and revenue-generating empathy for their users, their colleagues and their shareholders. I learned that software engineers?—?or often referred to as business analytics?—?is or developers?—?are

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. 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. Keep it Simple.