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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by megablast on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:35PM (#22242816)
> I declined because it was outside of our core skillset.

Um, isn't this app allowing people to enter data, and sending that to an API? How could that be out of anyone's core skillset? Almost every single app must do that.

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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night by trianglem on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:43PM (#22242882)
We had to turn down a democratic contract because we could not fulfill the security requirements in time. Maybe that played a part.
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