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bking

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About bking

I am a Technology Consultant. I enjoy coding on the side.

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: Startups that partners with current company

    I have an idea for a startup that could benefit my current company, but definitely falls outside of the vision/value that my current company goes after (essentially a tool to help …

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    Comment #34610916

    Need the full context around your resume/linked-in/personal site to be able to give you better info, but throwaway892238 covers the main bases.

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    Comment #15535959

    Yeah, ATL is adding a number of tech jobs (hopefully Amazon too). Cost of living is increasing, but relative to everywhere else it is cheap to live in the city center. Developments…

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    Comment #8402050

    when entering dimensions the warning box for it being too high or too low will not close. I can't figure out how to do it? I am using Chrome. Possibly check for if the cursor is in…

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    Comment #8264937

    Yes US, East Coast is down.

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    Comment #8038056

    My 2 cents is that all the talent in LS is fleeing and no matter how good the CEO is, they will have to completely up-end their internal culture and fire their skill-less work forc…

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    Comment #7910108

    Not bad, but it doesn't mention anything about apps being able to send data to each other. That is HUGE and will open the door for companies to partner up and share features.

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    Comment #7872291

    That is a pretty funny spin. I would hope you have a metric in there to show who is the current leader and what team they are on.

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    Comment #7606012

    I do have to say, that is a unique way to bring a consistent message across urls

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    Comment #7144298

    The best question now is: What registrar will allow me to register on day 1 for the cheapest? I just looked at GoDaddy (yes I know they suck), and they are charging a premium to pr…

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    Comment #7110869

    www.codeacademy.com is a pretty good fundamentals. They also have a community of "advanced" developers with user generated problems to solve once you get past the fundamentals.

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    Comment #6934772

    I like the concept because it is only a means to a conversation. The only issue I can see is people abusing the friends aspect. Is there a way to qualify their friends to make sure…

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    Comment #6841270

    I work in fed technology, and I agree wholeheartedly that the acquisition process for technology is horrible.

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    Comment #6834118

    Everything I have seen about the Salesforce Hackathon screams foul play. I also agree that it looks like companies are abusing hackathons for project ideas and code. At this point …

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    Comment #6834011

    Does it not bother anyone that the same machine is "built" in 2 different buildings?

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    Comment #6804162

    That looks nice, but I will never download it for fear of wasting too much time on HN.

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    Comment #6488033

    And I am trying to push my edits to my team repo... worst timing ever

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    Comment #6423637

    I don't understand why a city needs to keep "growing" to keep it alive. Keep the height restrictions because it keeps the city beautiful. Why don't we develop the parts that are ru…

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    Comment #5998684

    An excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer": A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and…

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    Comment #5805954

    This is horrible. The Oculus is just gearing up to be something great. It is kind of morbid, but This is going to turn into an interesting case study on how a company stays afloat …