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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” Netflix Senior Software Engineer Terra Field, who is transgender, tweeted a viral thread about the Chappelle special. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images).

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Register a company.

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MEDICAL IMAGING INNOVATIONS

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What do entrepreneurs, mathematicians, software engineers, physicists, physicians, biologists, anatomists, angels, venture capitalists and bankers have in common? Electrical engineers design and make the hardware. Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

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. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again! The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. Weve gotten lots of positive feedback from people who don't want to ship and item on eBay, might not want to deal with people on Craiglist, but when it's for charity, and they are doing it with friends, the incentives are different and they are interested.

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