This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Over the weekend I must have seen a dozen articles about this online and in the NY Times, and then I woke up this morning to a bunch of new things about the Healthcare.gov site underlying tech, how screwed up it is , and what / how the Health and Human Services agency is going to do to fix it. Set a new launch date of July 14, 2014.
It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. We were working on a logistics project with a management consulting firm for one of the largest retail companies in the world. I’d dress up in a suit and go with the management consultants to the client and participate in meetings.)
Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that softwareengineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. First, it’s true that “most softwareengineers aren’t business people.”
Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a softwareengineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a softwareengineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.
Experienced, talented softwareengineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. Imagine you’re a highly-trained softwareengineer. Date for a bit, then split the equity. Recruit college kids. Vest, young man.
Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a softwareengineer let alone a rockstar. Mircea Goia , Web developer and web consultant (www.
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
First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content