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> I'd do some research into the wide variety of software that hospitals and health care facilities use and then look into the channels they are purchased through I've done a little…

tl;dr- How do you engage with VARs in a way that will get their attention? In the last two years, several organizations has asked to license a medical spell check dictionary that I…

MoneyGuidePro for individuals, instead of just financial advisors.

The Ars Technica forums are generally quite good. The non-tech forums require being a subscriber, though.

HttpResponseMessages also implement IDisposable, and should be disposed. HttpContent also implements IDisposable, but disposing of the parent HttpResponseMessage also disposes of t…

More likely their internship program was full already.

So they told you, an external candidate, that they're firing someone, and that you would take their position? That's a pretty big red flag with respect to organizational behavior. …

With significantly better performance: Old dday.ical test suite: ~17 seconds Latest ical.net nuget package: 3.5 seconds

I was able to track down the original developer of a .NET icalendar library that had been abandoned. (It wasn't easy.) It had ambiguous licensing and copyright associated with it, …

- Ability to specify WHERE to cache files. This matters, because I have drives for data on my workstations, and partitions for data that're reachable in an OS-agnostic way on my la…

I can confidently say a few things about working at a big company: - I have created whole products from scratch by myself with my tech lead doing code reviews - I have worked on "l…

> we are talking about those people who are willing to trade off security for a chance of building something great I object to your phrasing (though not your thesis), because it's …

> Some people might do better (even financially) staying at more stable companies. I would venture to say that MOST people will do better financially if they stay at a large, estab…

An object can be a value object, and it can be immutable. Or not. (Though I can't think of a reason a value object should ever be mutable once it's created; it would be a very pung…

For what it's worth, this is the first three chapters, not the full e-book. It's in the fine print.

I don't see the connection between college graduation and terrible web design. Could you spell it out for me...?

I have no comment on whether Europe needs to be more like Silicon Valley, but my gut feeling is that it doesn't. That being said, Europe isn't nearly as friendly to failure as the …

I find it amazing that letter.ly finds it amazing that a physical war might disrupt their normal service(s).

Engadget has a video of the actual contest, and an interview with the IBM guys: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer...

What fantasy land do you live in, and can I join you? Yes, if you're networking your way to a job (the best way to do it), you might be able to do this. I've done it several times …

HR is looking for reasons to disqualify you from consideration. Why give them any more reason to do so? It's silly.

Any extra steps you make the HR person jump through--HR filters resumes before they reach a hiring manager--is a strike against you. If there are 50-100 applicants for the position…

Just FYI, here's another HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109

Google Maps would have been faster. http://goo.gl/maps/XgeI