Life in the FAST Lane
Tech Team
Colorado Tax-es
Colorado Wildlife
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FAST's newest international site is located in this country, characterized by tulips and windmills

The Netherlands

100

While some programming languages like C and COBOL use procedural approaches, C# uses this paradigm to better model real-world entities

Objects/Classes

100

You might be disappointed to learn you cannot purchase this good before 8:00 am, which has an excise tax of 8 cents per gallon

Beer

100


This dinosaur is the official state dinosaur of Colorado. It was native to the Denver area, with complete fossils being found less than 20 minutes from downtown.

Stegosaurus

200

FAST's first site was in a city named after this 19th century British monarch.

Victoria, British Columbia

200

FAST uses thisNamingConvention for naming variables in code and configuration

Camel Case

200

This 6.5% excise tax on all things that go "bang" or "twang" is Colorado's newest tax, voted into law last year.

Firearms and Ammunition

200

Colorado is the home to more of this mammal than anywhere else in the world. They can be found amongst rugged mountain terrain, eating wild grasses and wildflowers

Bighorn Sheep

300

You might say FAST was "Born in the Bayou", with its first dev center located in this state capital.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

300

FAST takes advantage of this type of database schema, characterized by structured tables that can be joined via common data

Relational Database

300

First legalized in 2020, this type of speculative income is taxed at 10% in order to fund the state of Colorado's water projects

Sports Betting

300

This social animal is the largest of the squirrel genus, living in colonies of up to 20 individuals. They can be found in habitat ranging from Colorado's foothills to its highest peaks, often above 14,000 feet.

Marmot

400

The standard AC voltage for United States power outlets, this is also the current number of project managers at FAST

120

400

Run from them, hide from them, ggBom exceptions are always going to find you. What is "Bom" short for in ggBom?

Business Object Manager

400

With a generous 0% state tax rate on the first $19,000,000 in gross income, this product is a part of one of Colorado's oldest industries

Metallic Minerals

400

This fiercely territorial carnivore can be found in the sub-alpine forests of Colorado. It takes shelter in the burrows of the prey it kills, often utilizing multiple dens within its range.

Ermine/Stoat