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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Software Engineering. J Date, Thinking Forth, Little Schemer.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software. They’d much rather create a complex caching solution than simply doubling the hardware to handle the extra load.

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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. The way software is written will be completely changed.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. Embedded software engineer.

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