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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm).

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.