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Microsoft Mesh? ‘I don’t think most people want to have a thing strapped to their face all the time’<\/h4>\n

Interview<\/strong>  Twilio founder and CEO Jeff Lawson has told The Register<\/i> that many biz execs still fail to grasp the importance of software developers and do not understand how to work with them, dismissing them as “math geeks” or “digital factory workers”.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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