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I know everyone says that to succeed as an entrepreneur you have to do it because it's what you love, not because you seek monetary wealth. I agree, to the extent that doing it because you love it has to be your primary…

I've been coding professionally for a few years now, with solo responsibility for quite a bit of code. As the systems I work on have gotten bigger, I've realized how lacking my skillset is. I have a CS degree, but never…

when I read job postings for the latest hot tech startup, or read profiles of big name programmers working at these startups, it seems like being an expert at something is a necessity to make it (and in some cases, an…

say I'm working on a web app which has features that make it useful as a standalone product (i.e., it doesn't obtain its value from a community element or some sort of integration of user data from external sites). is…

I just recently came across this set of articles by Eric Lippert (senior dev at Microsoft and, among other things, a .net master): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/tags/graph+colouring/ It's a set of posts on…

where NLP = natural language processing, IR = information retrieval, PA = predictive analytics, and DM = data mining (had to fit the title in 80 chars :P) for example: http://www.recordedfuture.com their jobs page makes…

I know most everyone that hangs out here sees themselves as hackers/coders/etc, but anyone ever leave the software world to do something unrelated? I've been programming professionally for 5 years now, and am at a point…

say I want to break into internet startup world, but my programming skills are currently confined to desktop dev. many job listings I've looked at want experienced software engineers that can build highly scalable web…