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by oostevo 11y ago
I think you're absolutely right about not wanting to bog down your salespeople with old relationships. Here's why: It seems to me that a lot of companies who are at the point where they'd hire a full-time sales staff struggle
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by oostevo 12y ago
Several pieces of evidence point to this not being true: There's a fairly large government program specifically designed to award technology and R&D contracts to small businesses. http://www.sbir.gov/ There's
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by oostevo 12y ago
I'm not about to try freediving without proper instruction, but some of those sound generally useful. Can you share any good resources for training?
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by oostevo 12y ago
There's also a heavily modified backpack that carries a StreetView camera. https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekke...
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by oostevo 12y ago
Similarly, I've been impressed by Duo's mobile applications.[1] They offer a push authentication capability, so you only have to click "accept" or "deny" in the app on your phone. They've also got code gen
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by oostevo 12y ago
In case it helps: I've been a subscriber for several years, and this is the first I've seen the Education Guide. It might just be because I'm oblivious, but perhaps you might want to make it more prominent on the "New to
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by oostevo 12y ago
Yeah, it's definitely confined to certain demographics. It's especially popular among government/defense types in Virginia. There are a couple of benefits that make it popular with them -- namely that it's free and the s
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by oostevo 12y ago
It's extremely popular between DC/North Arlington and the southern and western suburbs. I used to work in Crystal City, and on my commute home I would see dozens of people -- probably more than 30 most days -- lined up at the desi
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by oostevo 12y ago
I don't have personal experience with it, but this just launched: http://driveshift.com/ It seems to only be available in San Francisco right now, though.
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by oostevo 12y ago
For people on OS X who want to give tiling window managers a try but don't want to switch to Linux/Xmonad: I've been using Amethyst[1] and throughly enjoying it. It's pretty clearly still early on in its development, but
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by oostevo 12y ago
I should preface this by saying that I know very little about batteries and consumer electronics, but a little about watches. The problem of how to keep a mostly or completely analog watch wound throughout the day was solved a very long tim
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by oostevo 12y ago
I can't think of any place that I've lived in the US which has consistently worse broadband performance than DC and Northern Virginia. This is especially sad given Northern Virginia's density of large tech companies and histo
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by oostevo 12y ago
This was at an organization that I don't work for anymore, and my recollection is a bit fuzzy. I think it was Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Wavelet, and Image Processing. There were also some convoluted, non-technical reasons tha
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by oostevo 12y ago
Do you know a place to find more examples like these? When I was re-learning Vim a few years ago, I found things like VimCasts to be incredibly useful -- reading documentation is one thing, but seeing how experts use the tools made a big di
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by oostevo 12y ago
For what it's worth, I tried and failed to convert my team of scientists/programmers (heavy on the science; not so much on the programming) to Julia from MATLAB/IDL/C++ for a project we were kicking off ca. 1 year ago. I
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by oostevo 12y ago
The point of it is that the US government finds it politically inexpedient and costly having to pay Russia or United Launch Alliance[1] (who sometimes use Russian engines anyway[2]) in order to get people and equipment to space. SpaceX is a
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by oostevo 12y ago
Nice! When I was playing with convolutional neural networks a while ago, I found the following tutorial to be a good introduction to the topic: http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/lenet.html
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Virginia Clears Path for UberX(blog.uber.com)
1 points by oostevo 12y ago|0 comments
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by oostevo 12y ago
From my experience, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have horrifying traffic behavior, but at least everyone follows the same unofficial rules of the road. Eventually, you can somewhat reliably predict how someone on the road will
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by oostevo 12y ago
It's fairly commonplace in the federal government to have 'use it or lose it' leave. Only a certain amount of vacation hours can roll over from one year to the next, so those which you don't use and don't roll over
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by oostevo 12y ago
I believe the ground station is optional. It's for organizations who want their data _really_ fast, before it would be available on the web interface.
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by oostevo 12y ago
It sounds like they might: "We are testing this type of messaging across the U.S. with multiple providers" [end of 1st paragraph] and "The current transparency test ... is scheduled to end June 16 and we are evaluating rollin
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by oostevo 12y ago
Key quotes from the article: "In the cease and desist letters, DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb told representatives for both companies that he is “once again making clear” that they must stop operating in Virginia until they get the p
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Virginia DMV Tells Uber And Lyft To Stop Operating(dcist.com)
3 points by oostevo 12y ago|1 comments
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by oostevo 12y ago
"The current name قلب means Heart, but is actually a recursive acronym for قلب: لغة برمجة pronounced ‘alb: lughat barmajeh meaning Heart: A Programming Language" My Arabic ability has degraded badly, but I'm fairly sure the n
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by oostevo 13y ago
That sounds awesome, but I'm a little skeptical. The app would have run a huge optimization problem over your schedule and preferences (how would it know that you had a friend that could drive you?) and the airline reservation systems
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by oostevo 13y ago
I used them for an award flight that got severely messed up. I was pretty impressed with the service.
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by oostevo 13y ago
An example of an exceptional driver: I once took a longer Uber Black ride to pick up my wife a few towns away, who was quite sick. Once I mentioned this to the driver, he drove noticeably more 'efficiently', offered me his phone t
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by oostevo 13y ago
From my (limited) experience in (not even close to F1-level) racing, the physical sensations of the tires being near the limits of grip are fairly obvious. The reason why traction control helps so much is that a computer can adjust power ac
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by oostevo 13y ago
I've also found the book "From Bash to Z Shell - Conquering the Command Line" very, very useful.[1] It's written as a beginner text, but even after ~15 years of *nix usage, I've learned a huge amount of new informat

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