Contest-based hiring works only if companies such as InterviewStreet, HireVue and London-based Codility provide access to a uniquely awesome group of programmers.
The founder, Fred Luddy, and a group of programmers just wanted to build something that was much easier to use than traditional IT software.
The company had attracted a wonderful group of programmers who were crazy, brilliant, and totally undisciplined, and the senior powers-that-be decided they needed to be wrangled.
This approach to software development was codified in a meeting in February 2001 in Utah when a group of programmers declared its allegiance to doing things quickly, using common sense and simplicity.
Clark, Andreessen and a group of programmers created and sold the first widely marketed and user-friendly Internet browser, mapping out the World Wide Web, beating Microsoft to the punch, and making themselves millionaires in the process.
He found out about WorldVistA and Vista Expertise Network, two non-profit organizations that group hundreds of programmers willing to devote some of their time to enhance VistA, and also tailor it to non-VA hospitals and clinics.
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Ricks, 52, a former accounting and finance professor at Duke and Columbia, draws on a research group of 21 analysts and programmers to pick stocks after mining data on 6, 000 companies in the U.S. and twice that number overseas.
But Magnus Eriksson, who in 2003 co-founded the "loosely formed group of theorists, artists and programmers" that spawned The Pirate Bay, says there are serious issues at stake.
Created over the span of 15 years, Duke Nukem Forever was first developed with the intense passion and commitment from an inspired group of dedicated designers, artists and programmers at 3D Realms under the direction of game industry icon, George Broussard.
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