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So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. Find the 80/20 - this was my favorite part of the job.

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code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. While unique for the time, this public-private partnership was in-line with the wartime experiment of Vannevar Bush’s OSRD – using civilians in universities to develop military weapons. By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Just change it.

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