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Time To Really Deal With The Broken Software Patent System

Feld Thoughts

I believe software patents are an invalid construct – software shouldn’t be able to patented. While a bunch of software engineers I know thought software patents were bogus, I had trouble getting anyone else to speak out against software patents. But that has changed. And they kept coming.

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How To Fix Obamacare

Feld Thoughts

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.

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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

The title of a recent article in Forbes magazine sums it up perfectly: “Big Data Is Changing the Way People Live Their Lives.” In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. A reason why is how data analysts collect and use the information.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Per the same Randstad article, international tech companies and investors consider Canada as a place to do business. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

The United States, which has been a magnet for the most talented overseas-born software engineers, is now home to some of the most innovative software and Internet businesses in the world. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Today I’d like to talk about what startup communities outside of Silicon Valley look like, how they emerge and what makes them take hold.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

One of our software engineers wrote all the code. I’ve been thinking about this since I first started writing code (APL) when I was 12 (ahem – 33 years ago) on a computer in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in Dallas.