USNetizen

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Hack the Marine Corps Nets 150 Computer Bugs and $150,000 in Rewards(nextgov.com)
1 points by USNetizen 8y ago|0 comments
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by USNetizen 9y ago
This is an area that was explored some years ago, but ultimately determined to have civil rights pitfalls. Crime reporting is only as good (or biased) as the humans that report and input the crime data. Therefore, crime "training"
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by USNetizen 9y ago
The University of Maryland (a fully accredited and well respected State school) has a completely online CS program (Bachelor of Science with an option for several minors and specializations as well). Having taken part of my CS program on-si
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by USNetizen 9y ago
Not if you want to design a site for any of the millions of government organizations out there who still require support for IE9+
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by USNetizen 10y ago
That is true - a lot of software developers use a variety of tools so they can do more advanced things like track burn rates, project velocity, and such more quantitatively. Trello, on the other hand, is so easy that I've seen it used
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by USNetizen 10y ago
Your Secret clearance now expires sometimes within a matter of months of being off a contract or out of a job that requires it. OPM is cleaning up the clearances, and revoking millions of them. I've had employees go from active TS to &
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by USNetizen 10y ago
I feel like I've read this article before somewhere. Regardless, it's about 2-3 years too late. This "learn to code" stuff was all the rage up until about a year ago but has since died down a bit.
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by USNetizen 10y ago
This reads very, very similar to a post I wrote (and also made it to the front page of HN) a couple of years ago: http://blog.netizencorp.com/2014/03/30/working-rediculously-...
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Sometimes they can explicitly tell you what margins you can make in a Cost-Plus type contract. The thing is, when they dangle a 5-year long $75,000,000 contract in front of you, you'll basically take any margin at all since the amount
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by USNetizen 11y ago
This doesn't happen very often because, as a government contractor, you are subject to audit at any time and anything they deem unreasonable can make you non-competitive in that market. The only time this (high margins) really happens
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by USNetizen 11y ago
This is exactly true. Not only in corporate taxes, but payroll taxes as well. So, literally, up to 35% of each contract goes back to the government in one form or another (whether directly or through overhead personnel salaries), hence the
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by USNetizen 11y ago
No, they don't. Not for federal contracts, which is governed by a whole different set of rules from the rest of commerce (the FAR vs. UCC).
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Contracting with the government means you open your books to them, essentially whenever they want. They can audit you at any time.
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by USNetizen 11y ago
There is no limit on the profit a company may take, though on Cost-Plus contracts the government may explicitly state the profit margin a company is allowed based upon performance metrics. The government CAN, however, audit your books for D
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by USNetizen 11y ago
It goes by tasks. Each contract is broken into a series of tasks (CLINs) and assigned a value. The "prime" contractor typically has to perform 51% of the work by value and task when some sort of set-aside preference is used (like
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Outsourcing outside the U.S. for federal contracts is typically illegal unless explicitly allowed by the Contracting Office most times, especially for defense work where all contractors must be U.S. citizens. Exceedingly rarely do federal a
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The failure fad is failing those who don’t have to fail(lvb.com)
1 points by USNetizen 11y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Failing Upward(nytimes.com)
1 points by USNetizen 11y ago|0 comments
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Way back (well, just shy of a decade ago) in my CompSci Signal and Image Processing course I got to know this teapot very, very well. Even created a 3-dimensional solar system of orbiting teapots that mimicked the exact orbits and rotations
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Who Lives and Dies in a Down Economy(techcrunch.com)
2 points by USNetizen 11y ago|0 comments
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by USNetizen 11y ago
"In the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution took hold, the ocean began to rise briskly, climbing about eight inches since 1880." "The sea is rising at what appears to be an accelerating pace, lately reaching a rate
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by USNetizen 11y ago
It's the feeling of total entitlement amongst those six-figure engineers that is the issue, not necessarily the salary. Take, for instance, the whole 'tech bro' debacle and others like it.
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Couldn't have said it better for the most part. I think, though this isn't a bubble, the land of fairytales and unicorns (i.e. Silicon Valley) is finally coming to terms with the economic reality that the rest of entrepreneurs in
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Microsoft Sells U.S. Defense Dept. On Windows 10(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by USNetizen 11y ago|1 comments
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Quite contrarily, I've seen an increasing amount of Python usage in enterprise software, especially analytics applications. More and more job postings are starting to mention Python, and the web frameworks associated with it (Django, F
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by USNetizen 11y ago
They still provide value, but in different ways. There are still things that can be accomplished far more effectively in an office than remotely. However, there are things that can also be achieved better remotely than in an office. There a
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by USNetizen 11y ago
Having worked remotely for over 6 years and then having run my own company, I can easily say that there are benefits and drawbacks to both approaches - office and fully remote. It really depends on the industry and the team. I have found th
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by USNetizen 11y ago
There were most certainly victims in this Zenefits case. My employees count amongst them. We were wronged by Zenefits and people with medical problems found themselves out of insurance because of this company, then Parker tried to shift bla
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by USNetizen 11y ago
The issues go far beyond insurance. The whole platform was a mess when my company used it and support was virtually non-existent because of their complete ineptitude.
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by USNetizen 11y ago
As a former Zenefits user, and after contentiously conversing with Parker a few times on social media then soonthereafter reading how the company flouts laws and regulations while feigning simple ignorance of them, I'd say the buck cer

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