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by blister 10y ago
What would you suggest as the alternative? Have DISA write their own tech stack, operating systems, and cloud services? This is a freaking great deal for the government.
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by blister 10y ago
This is an ID/IQ, which means that DISA has set aside $927M over five years for optional services and support. ID/IQs are a cool contract vehicle because it gives the government a cost-effective way to buy just what they need as t
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by blister 10y ago
We basically are vanilla Arduino and off-the-shelf parts. All our board does is combine the Atmega 328 with a motor controller and has some IR sensors pre-soldered onto the board. The motors, sensors, and even some IO headers are just gener
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by blister 10y ago
Disclaimer up front: I have a significant interest in this company and product, so I'm definitely pimpin' my own sauces. :) With that said, we[0] build a product called MRK-1 which is a programmable autonomous robot built using a
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by blister 10y ago
Shit, dang near all of them. Lol. Admittedly, most of my hiring experience with recent grads came out of smaller regional universities (Augusta University, Augusta Tech, Georgia Tech) and a few for-profit schools (Kaplan, Phoenix, Full Sail
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by blister 10y ago
And that's where I really think you're missing the point. If I needed someone to write copy for my website, I'd search using those same terms (and have in the past). UpWork is a service that sells workers. You're equatin
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by blister 10y ago
I've been a professional engineer for over 15 years now and have been working in the games and simulations space for about 5. My advice to you: only focus on it if you really love it. The pay is (most of the time) not as good as what y
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by blister 10y ago
By itself, law essay writing as a service doesn't seem (to me) as a violation of their terms of use. There are a lot of use cases for producing web content/copy for websites, magazines, and the like that have absolutely nothing to
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by blister 10y ago
I had breakfast with Nolan Bushnell back in 2013 at GameTech and he's been a huge inspiration to me. The dude is 80? and has the energy and enthusiasm for tech that is simply contagious. We talked for 20 minutes over bacon on how he wa
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by blister 10y ago
That seems a little bit extreme, in my opinion. I'm writing the curriculum for a full-stack web developer bootcamp that we're launching in the early part of next year. We're all "kind of" in it for the money. I have
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by blister 10y ago
I think the best argument in this article that hasn't really been stated elsewhere is (paraphrasing): "the pro machine needs to adapt to the needs of the professional producers (music, dev, writers that need insane battery life, e
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by blister 10y ago
Yeah, they put all the unsubscribe options inside the actual emails. It seems like they're using all the best-practices stuff for that. It's probably just growth hacking/simplicity. The unsubscribe is available, but they want
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by blister 10y ago
I'm the CTO of a startup that's trying to solve this very problem. Online activism isn't very effective, so our thesis is that small groups of determined people can affect change when they meet in person around specific issue
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by blister 10y ago
Shit man, I'm WAY more scared of my kids running out into traffic. My 8 year old son is completely oblivious to the world around him. Just this morning he chased a tennis ball right into the middle of a three-way intersection without e
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by blister 10y ago
I used to run everything on FreeBSD. It's a great operating system and incredibly stable and I loved every minute of sysadminning a FreeBSD box. Honestly, what changed was Ubuntu. Being able to have a fairly robust server on the cheap
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by blister 10y ago
Wow, I wouldn't. We are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift. Some of the smartest people in the world are tackling small edges of an impressive graph of capabilities. As more and more of these edges are solved, general purpose comput
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by blister 10y ago
Hey, glad you remember ytalk. I was one of the maintainers for a short period of time (I owned metawire.org and worked with Jessica Peterson on it). We depended on ytalk for collaboration to chat and share shells. Those were happier times w
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by blister 10y ago
Shit man, I feel your pain. I'm actually quasi-looking for a job now at a super senior level (lead engineer or above) and finding it surprisingly frustrating. I'm employed full-time and have a family. I get daily phone calls from
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by blister 11y ago
But... GitBucket is a project that is trying to be a Scala-based clone of GitHub. That's what their project is about. They're trying to copy the look and feel of GitHub because that's exactly what they're trying to do. I
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by blister 11y ago
Huh? The gaming community has spent the last 10 years or so fighting to get games recognized as an art form and now you think that limiting expressive freedoms is a good idea just so copyright infringement doesn't happen? One of the mo
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by blister 11y ago
Sure, good tip. Though the pedantic butt-head in me wants to point out that out of all of our paying customers, they're all using that level of service. :) So technically...
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by blister 11y ago
Shameless plug, but my co-founder and I are about to launch our powerful logging service this month. One of our features is session-specific logs and the ability to send alerts at user-defined thresholds. We'd love to get some feedback
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by blister 11y ago
Yeah, that was kind of the intention. Our kit was designed to be as easy as possible. It just has two motors, a sonar sensor, three IR sensors (for line detection) and a buzzer. The book that I wrote has to take an approach that makes it ac
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by blister 11y ago
Shameless plug, but I'm working with a startup that teaches middle-school (and up) autonomous robot programming within the context of Sumo Robot competitions. We're active in 6 schools right now in Georgia and hope to expand to th
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by blister 11y ago
It's complicated. Basically, every time I build a new product of any complexity, I end up spending the first week or so cobbling together some sort of logging/debugging framework that I'll use for the entire lifecycle of the
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by blister 11y ago
My co-founder and I literally just started a (mostly) API-only SaaS product. I wasn't going to launch our website until this weekend, but it would be a shame to miss this opportunity to capture some email addresses. We're building
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by blister 11y ago
As someone that just published a book through that process, they don't actually care about the content or what it is that your book is about. They're just reviewing it to make sure that there aren't any glaring formatting err
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by blister 11y ago
Well, we've actually been using AlchemyAPI for this exact function for some time now. They were recently acquired by the IBM Watson team, so it's kind of a pain to get set up through them now (you have to go in through the Bluemix
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by blister 11y ago
Well... in fairness to this product, it's licensed with an MIT license, so in theory you can plug in whatever danged infrastructure you want. Seems disingenuous to say "not really" to the open source question when it has such
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by blister 11y ago
Isn't this already the case? Our police force, the ones with the motto of "protect and serve" are in the news nearly every day with some sort of gun crime against the citizenry [1]. We literally pay these people to put their

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