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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. So it makes me wonder, should our schools teach Latin or HTML? Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads. We tried to use third parties, but rich media companies are great ad serving agencies, but not so good at serving publishers. READ MORE>>.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful. It’s hard enough to build a successful company.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

If you need more help on really getting inside the mind of programmers, two great resources are Dilbert and Foxtrot (the little kid is a budding rock star developer). Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

If you need more help on really getting inside the mind of programmers, two great resources are Dilbert and Foxtrot (the little kid is a budding rock star developer). Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources.

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