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It's oddly amusing that a similar outage occurred exactly one year ago, 17 April 2012: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/17/2954949/gmail-outage-april...

Hey Gibbon -- I'm not sure what catamaran you were looking at, but the America's Cup boats are actually even LARGER than that ... The AC45 (the boat being used in current cup event…

I haven't researched the full contract award or pulled a copy of the original RFP, however, work on the Census FactFinder website was part of an $89.5mm contract awarded to IBM Fed…

It was changed, yes -- and there was already a previous comment to this submission discussing it ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163318 ) ... and it was killed. I'm disappoi…

> There was a similar HN post/Google+ post last week. I can't remember where I read it. Something along the lines of an avid lawyer decided to kill her account because she read the…

Another example of a payroll system implementation gone awry: SAIC's CityTime in NYC [1]. $700mm+ now ... [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/nyregion/bloomberg-adminis...