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Entries tagged programming, softwareengineering in 2012

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To become a better developer ? To read more OR to create/contribute to open source projects?

Contribute to an existing project, rather than starting one yourself. There are a bunch of benefits:

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9:58 am / 14th November 2012 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

Did Mark Zuckerberg have any knowledge on building scalable social networks prior to starting work on Facebook?

I’m going to bet he didn’t have this knowledge, simply because back when he launched Facebook in 2004 almost NO ONE had this knowledge—there simply weren’t enough “web scale” products around for the patterns needed to run them to be widely discussed.

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3:27 pm / 18th September 2012 / facebook, programming, scaling, socialnetworks, softwareengineering, webapps, webdevelopment, quora

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