elblanco

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by elblanco 16y ago
Wait a minutes....rdl......just checked your profile....now I know who you are! I haven't seen much about you since '05ish, since Wired did the profile on you. I actually asked around for your outfit for a while when I was over there to see
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't think I said anything about being "good" at art. There are sadly a great many artists that aren't particularly good. I don't know what the admission standards are to get into an undegrad art program, but at least at my alma mater, t
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by elblanco 16y ago
I can't remember where chem majors fit in. I think it was higher than bio majors.
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by elblanco 16y ago
The sky map app is and amazing piece of software.
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by elblanco 16y ago
3g video calling apps have been out for a little while for the Android platform (a coupla months). Most of the new apps have flash origins and are just trying to figure out ways around the artificial restriction. HD video is "neat", 5MP cam
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by elblanco 16y ago
I was really hoping the hardware we "accidentally" saw wasn't the final phone case. Maybe I have to see it in person, but the original iPhone design looks far more elegant. All the bands, square seams and panels in this design really seem m
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by elblanco 16y ago
It was pretty rampant in 06 and 07 :( > The mitigating factor is that someone in a deployed environment is probably more aware of the potential harm from letting slip (even unintentionally) sensitive or classified information. i.e. mort
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yeah, I know a few folks who got their TS investigations opened and shut in about 2 months. It takes longer the older you are anyway especially if you've moved around a lot or have foreign relatives. I've seen it take as long as 3 years. I
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by elblanco 16y ago
They don't consider history as a minor for the SSBI. And usually don't look at anything older than 7 years prior anyway.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I certainly don't disagree with you that the spec hasn't changed (24x7 armed guards, several levels of physical access control, razor wire, etc. etc.). The de-facto reality is that it's much easier to walk in an out of a SCIF in theater wit
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by elblanco 16y ago
I believe he did the exfiltration while in Iraq. The security environment there is quite different than what you'll find CONUS. http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/10/world/fg-disks10
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by elblanco 16y ago
"He literally shut completely down, and for a about 5 minutes just sat there with his eyes closed, breathing. I tried getting his attention, but he was completely catatonic." When I was much younger (middle school) I had a friend who did th
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by elblanco 16y ago
this interface would make for a challenging game, "guide the mass of particles through a machine, loosing as few to wall collisions as possible".
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm not an artist, and I'm likely influenced by the perceptions (fair or not) of my alma mater. I have taken a few art courses for hobby and thought they were fun. I wasn't great, but probably nothing that practice and perseverance wouldn't
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by elblanco 16y ago
I suppose. I didn't make the hierarchy, it just seemed to be informally observed. There were definitely a fair number of people in the technical fields that took art courses for an easy A, almost no artists ever attended a course on discret
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm surprised classical mechanics would be the weed out course. I found discrete mathematics quite a bit harder than that. But then again I found field physics and quantum physics quite a bit harder than discrete mathematics (and relativist
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by elblanco 16y ago
If your school doesn't offer graphics, AI and hardware architecture as either required coursework, or electives in the Junior and Senior years, it's probably not a good program.
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by elblanco 16y ago
If cost is an issue, go to your local state uni (not private). The education will at least be credible and diverse, and you'll earn back your tuition in just a couple years out. Depending on where you live, some state schools are among the
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by elblanco 16y ago
I was going to post a protracted point for point response, but decided I wasn't in the mood for yet another lengthy internet battle with an obvious zealot which will probably end up in a Godwin law violation or a comparison of digital phall
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'd be real interested in their method for finding only the content of a page for "reading". Is it a custom template for most major sites or something smarter?
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by elblanco 16y ago
As an American, who's tried for years to do business in Canada. The appetite to purchase stuff is strangely not there. I found similar stories amongst colleagues in other companies as well. Endless demos, pitches and such, just like you mig
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'd trade the projector for a pair of glasses with a transparent display. The true power of this is really in the software. It's amazing, stunning, work.
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by elblanco 16y ago
They iterate even more out of the public eye. There are endless reams of concept art that never even made it to scale model clay. All of the major manufacturers have design houses staffed with people who's sole job is to draw neat looking c
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by elblanco 16y ago
Nice first effort, but after watching all I can think is: arms = tired looks like a clumsy, highly particular and low volume way to sift through data
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's a scam to make you believe they care about standards.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> On the consumer accessible page Apple are requiring Safari because they can guarantee that the demos will work and they can guarantee they will have reasonable performance. I'm sorry, how is that supporting standard again? I'm not ill
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by elblanco 16y ago
This reminds me of an input method I've seen on occasion for GP2x apps.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Lots of software has security problems. It's pretty rare that any of them show up on the front page of HN. They just tend to blend into background noise as "not interesting" unless it's particularly interesting to the community for some rea
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by elblanco 16y ago
and? http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/charlie-miller-to-reveal-...
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by elblanco 16y ago
Nope. I could take my brand new car to Jimbo's house of BBQ and Transmission repair if I wanted.

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