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We Need To Get Better At Coding(vice.com)
1 points by ktavera 12y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 12y ago
Licensing costs are not really an issue when you're on Azure. If your app ran fine under the BizSpark program subsidy of $150/month of azure credit then when you're out of the program you'd just have to pick up the $150
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by ktavera 12y ago
You'd still be saving money, you can run PHP and MySQL on Azure and get enough server power to host your production app for free instead of paying a shared hosting company $5 for something only sufficient for development.
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by ktavera 12y ago
Maybe group screen sharing is still limited to just premium subscribers?
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by ktavera 13y ago
I don't think you can compare MBS ratings with municipal bond ratings. Mortgage backed securities were a derivative of a pool of bundled bad loans, meaning the underlying asset was toxic. Municipal bonds are not really derivatives, th
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by ktavera 13y ago
AA+ rated municipal bonds can have great rates of return, low risk and usually the capital gains are tax-exempt. You can purchase bonds through online brokers (I use TD Ameritrade). There of course are other bonds; corporate, treasury and
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Ask HN: Freelancers/Contractors – what software do you use for accounting
4 points by ktavera 13y ago|2 comments
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Maker of Candy Crush Game Seeks Valuation Near $7.6 Billion in I.P.O.(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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How instant message and the open office made everyone's job impossible(newrepublic.com)
1 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 13y ago
In the grand scheme of IBM's business strategy this makes sense. They sold off their consumer PC market to Lenovo already. The hardware game is not where the big money is. Would you rather be selling relatively cheap hardware or hav
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Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs(hanselman.com)
1 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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How To Burglarize The FBI(vice.com)
1 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 13y ago
As a bonus, finally got to talk to the hiring manager a second ago and he informed me that there would be NO javascript or front end development in this role, just converting Crystal Reports into some other obscure reporting system. So I e
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by ktavera 13y ago
As a follow-up to my earlier comment, i'm doing a phone interview right now and the first interviewer started off with questions about how IIS internals worked and some obscure C# questions. I immediately asked him "Is this a fro
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by ktavera 13y ago
I've had similar experiences in the last month of interviews i've been through. I was asked how i'd design a secure backend API in asp.net, various algorithm questions, some basic javascript questions ("what is a closur
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Can airships revolutionize transportation in world's harshest environments?(cnn.com)
1 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 13y ago
Here is an incomplete prototype I developed of a UI to build impress.js presentations http://stepludesigner.azurewebsites.net/designer/index/1 (make sure to add a few slides and go to the "Presentation Design
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by ktavera 13y ago
I know because I was watching for the RFP to come out so my company could bid on it. Also it's been reported at various media outlets. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/some-say-h...
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by ktavera 13y ago
For all of you that didn't know, this project was never put out for bid with an RFP. It was sole-sourced to CGI Federal without any competitive bids. "Federal health officials have not yet explained why CGI was given the contract
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US Government spent $634,320,919 to build Healthcare.gov(weaselzippers.us)
9 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 13y ago
Thomas Sowell wrote a spectacular book in the same vein as this. http://www.amazon.com/Conquests-And-Cultures-International-H... Extraordinary amount of detail as to why war drives the rise of new civilizations.
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by ktavera 13y ago
Microsoft has been desperately trying to consolidate their product line branding for the last few years. it's not a surprise that they would bring in a new device acquisition under their existing Surface brand.
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EBay — The World’s Worst Marketplace(medium.com)
2 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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Manning lawyers filed a request for a pardon from President Barack Obama(america.aljazeera.com)
2 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook employees reveal the worst things about working for the social network(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktavera 13y ago
Thanks for that! I'll have to play around with it again.
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by ktavera 13y ago
Agreed, it looks like a promising framework as an alternative to MVC4/5
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by ktavera 13y ago
I started moving a large API we had built on MVC4 over to using WebAPI 2 beta and the attribute routing is amazing. Nancy looks to have similar conventions as far as routing goes but one thing I just couldn't get working properly was a
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Samsung’s New 6.3-Inch ‘Mega’ Phone Pushes the Limits(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments
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Feds give millions in contracts to firms owned by fictitious people(washingtonexaminer.com)
3 points by ktavera 13y ago|0 comments

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