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Ask HN: How do you find clients that wish to outsource

We have a team in southeast Asia (presently expanding) with team member skills ranging from front end and backend technologies like .NET, Java, Websphere Portal Admins, GIS Software Engineer etc.How do we go about promoting our company (which will be formed in the US since I am located here) and acquire clients that are willing to outsource their development.If anyone here has taken this path...

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Re:Ask HN: Can't figure out a NAS solution. Help? on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:47PM (#4113442)
sure. I will check it out. Thank you

Ask HN: Can't figure out a NAS solution. Help?

Well I have been looking into pre-built options such as Synology or QNap for Nas storage.I have contemplated building a desktop from ground up and implementing RAID 1.Overall I am seeking a backup and redundancy solutions for my terabytes of photographs and personal data.The attractive part about the pre-built solution is for instance the cloud access for Synology and the mobile Apps. Sounds...

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Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2012) on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @10:30PM (#3541304)
I am an IT guy working in Sales right now. I like the challenges in sales and I am inclined towards a goal oriented assignment just like this.
Re:Ask HN: How to get back to Unix after a sales job? on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @09:13PM (#3536312)
so when u say free tier level are you referring to linode or AWS ? because I do not see any free subscription on linode and I am still browsing AWS. Can you please let me know what you are referring to since what you suggested sounds like a good idea to me.

EDIT: I found it on AWS. This sounds good I am about to signup. Thanks again.

Ask HN: How to get back to Unix after a sales job?

I am currently working in Marketing /Sales. I do have a bachelors in CS and how I got here is a whole different story. However, I do feel left out of the IT race, for the lack of better words. So to sum up I had an IT background wherein I had a month or so of UNIX admin mentoring/training. It was Solaris mostly and I loved it. But I moved on to seek a challenging opportunity. That being said I...

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any tips?

Ask HN: How to find Remote Unix Admin jobs to develop skills

I am currently working in Marketing /Sales. I do have a bachelors in CS and how I got here is a whole different story. However, I do feel left out of the IT race, for the lack of better words. So to sum up I had an IT background wherein I had a month or so of UNIX admin mentoring/training. It was Solaris mostly and I loved it. But I moved on to seek a challenging opportunity. That being said I...

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Re:Wat on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:54PM (#3516860)
why do i have to signup to know who much it costs to subscribe. I think it should be apparent on the home page.

EDIT ok my bad it was mentioned on the screencasts homepage

Re:Ask HN: ASP.NET practical in terms of job prospects? on Saturday December 31, 2011 @04:16PM (#3411875)
@hkarthik I understand getting trapped in the ecosystem. That is a choice I would have to make if I am going into .NET.

By the wall probably it is the Visual studio IDE that is making the learning process easier for me. Probably that is what it is.

Re:Ask HN: ASP.NET practical in terms of job prospects? on Thursday December 29, 2011 @04:01PM (#3405368)
Thank for chiming in @jbigelow I am on Pluralsight and that is a great resource indeed. However, since I do not have any VB programming experience should I start learning VB first and then get into ASP.NET ?
Re:Ask HN: ASP.NET practical in terms of job prospects? on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:58PM (#3405361)
Thanks sontek xamarin sounds pretty interesting

Ask HN: ASP.NET practical in terms of job prospects?

Getting into programming would ASP.NET MVC be practical in terms of job prospects ?I have tried to get hands on with Android development but since I did not have a Java background i hit a wall. I am discovering a liking for .NET and the face that it has MVC now as a part of it frameworks make me think that a jump to another MVC framework like RoR would be possible. Any tips or links for ASP.NET...

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@apsurd Thanks. Appreciate your response. Yes I realize what you mean by getting involved in a complete application. I set out to achieve the same but ever so often I try to choose a language to learn and then I just cannot grasp the concepts.

I keep figuring out should I learn Java first or should I go back to C that I learnt years ago. This is where I am stuck and I needed help with.

@wh-uws I meant that I have tried my hands at coding but I succumb to it and give up feeling I cannot grab the concepts and the system admin stuff I have no issues with but although i could take system admin as a focus I feel with being an admin I cannot create something of my own and thats what keeps me going back to learning code. I keep switching languages and I believe that is what is screwing the efforts up.

Thank you for the link. Looks like a good read.

ASK HN: I lack programming skills but want an IT future suggestions?

I have time and again tried my hands on learning programming logic. I have recently for instance tried Android development although I am not too proficient in Java. I can understand the code but when it comes to implementation I lack the logic perspective.Earlier I have tried my hands on at Unix and Linux Admin stuff. At present I am working as a recruiter but in the long run I would like to...

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