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Sexism Still Exists in Tech | Blatant Trolling at DeveloperWeek 2015

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Erin Craig of Wolfram, Dominique DeGuzman of Twilio, Ana Martinez of Zendesk and Maira Benjamin of Pandora all joined in the conversation to discuss their experiences in pursuing careers in software engineering. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right? Just look what happened to Justine Sacco.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. One thing I learned from DoubleClick is that ‘purchase intent’ is by far the most valuable data for advertising. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. One thing I learned from DoubleClick is that ‘purchase intent’ is by far the most valuable data for advertising. How do you stand out?”.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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A web telephony pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Burr will oversee sales and marketing while expanding the range of clients served and building vendor, partner and investor relationships, according to CallFire CEO and Co-Founder Dinesh Ravishanker.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998.