elblanco

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by elblanco 16y ago
I need about 8.5 or 9 normally, but typically get 6. By the end of the week I'm pretty fried and then crash late Friday night for about 12 hours. My sleep "schedule" is also all over the place due to sporadic early morning customer meetings
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by elblanco 16y ago
ha! typo. Thanks for the correction. That's what I get for typing without coffee.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm surprised ESRI doesn't show up more often. Their tools are de factor standards in many many markets.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Don't forget that in the U.S. legal system, a company is obligated to protect its trademark or loose it.
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by elblanco 16y ago
The real proof in the pudding is if somebody opens an app store with Apple-style curating and rules and search quality, and if that outperforms the more open store Google runs. (jeez, by some of the comments in this thread, you'd think ever
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's not just the curve. It's the usability and reliability of the things. The hockey puck mouse was noticeably unusable within seconds of putting it in your hand. Pretty much the first time you tried to move it, or click, and the mouse had
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by elblanco 16y ago
> I've wished for a long time now that Apple would just give up, admit their mistake, and accept that 2 button mice are the superior option. The number of revisions on mice that Apple has produced that actually are multi-button mouse,
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by elblanco 16y ago
Which is interesting (I agree with your general sentiment BTW, a big responsive trackpad is nice) since for many years, Apple went through all kinds of exercises to try and get users off of the keyboard and slow the interface input down. Ot
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's not even a matter of preference, or just needing to use it to get used to it. It's like trying to drive a car where the steering wheel is covered in different grades of molasses and motor oil. It's actually physically tiring fighting t
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Apple mice seem to be the canary in the coal mine. If Apple starts designing mice we all want to use - it is a sign their engineering practices have turned upside down and their products will not have the same minimalistic qualities
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The Go Playground(golang.org)
6 points by elblanco 16y ago|1 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
> How can you explain that a lot of Japanese women go through cosmetic surgery to get rid of the slant in their eyes to make them look more Western? Why is baseball so popular in Japan? Double eyelid surgery isn't exactly about making t
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've actually heard that exact phrase.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Due to the abysmal and unpredictable traffic situation in D.C., I've noticed people are allowing more and more of a buffer around expected meeting times. It's honestly not anybody's fault if a drive from one part of the region to another, t
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've found that in general, South Koreans both fret uncontrollably over other people's timeliness (viewing it as a form of politeness) and provide all kinds of reasons and self justifications for their own tardiness. One of my friends has g
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by elblanco 16y ago
great great great. That's all I can say. You could probably make a fortune for a year or so off of the engine that drives this. Any plans to make it work better on mobile devices?
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HP to acquire ArcSight for $1.5 billion(news.cnet.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Something that keeps coming up over and over in his descriptions is how they kept trying to do this amazing work on a very tight budget. Which is astounding both because of the quality of the result, and how it seems like effects budget tod
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by elblanco 16y ago
Wonderful point. I always find myself gawking at the dated hairstyles of the actors when I watch the original Star Wars trilogy.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't think you understand what "citation" means.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Thanks for the link. I've known a few people who worked on the DNF project over the years and honestly thought they were a great bunch of developers toiling on a project under hideously bad management. I was really hoping somebody would bri
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is probably my last response to you and I'm trying to say this without coming across as mean. First off, there are no serious claims anywhere that TDS misrepresents itself when filming interviews. People here have asked for citations o
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by elblanco 16y ago
I care for debate, but just to be clear not with insane conspiracy theorists who respond to every claim with "socialism! fascists! lies! nazis!". Let me short circuit any possible debate anybody will have with you. You have nothing of subst
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Thousands of years of political satire (cartoons, opinion pieces) agree with you. Fixed that for you.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Don't even bother engaging him anymore, he's just regurgitating conspiracy theories that float around in right-wing circles as a way to explain their often public embarrassments.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Don't feed the troll. This guy is clearly stuck in 1950's McCarthy-land and thinks Godwin's law is a guidebook, not a admonishment of sloppy thinking. You'll only be debating your grandfather here.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Have you ever watched an entire episode of Beck?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Sorry to all reddit here but whooosh .
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's amazing they could snatch that property up, put a team on it cold, and peg a release date like that. If this happens, it'll be a wonderful case study on the powers of good project and product management.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I remember watching that at the time and think it was a cool bit of movie wizardry. However, I don't think it's stood the test of time in the same way the Blade Runner effects have. The effects scenes in Blade Runner are nearly flawless .

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