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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft. 15 minutes.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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