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Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

Diego Basch

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. When asked to hike between New York and Chicago, he will be much more accurate.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The question is whether it is more effective to spend the money to gain entry-level employment as a Ruby developer where you can learn other software development skills on the job - or to go for an academic degree that may or may not set the student up for a lifetime of success. People need to do this,” Bishay said.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. So did you, I'm envisioning you like going down the street in Chicago somewhere knocking on restaurant doors and saying, I have an idea, you want to like be part of this.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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