elblanco

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by elblanco 16y ago
Appreciate it, I'll send an email off in a bit, not sure if I have the kind of time I need to be a solid contributor anymore, but I can always take a stab. (btw, some of my biggest long distance bills ever came from calling Starport years a
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by elblanco 16y ago
As an 30 year-old underground-ish art movement rooted deeply if not almost entirely online, the demoscene is not exactly one with much printed source material or reporting (I've managed to be interviewed on TV once though at an event in Que
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by elblanco 16y ago
Can you recall any of Brin's ideas on the subject? (It's funny since I just started reading Sundiver the other day!)
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't (anymore). About two years ago I went through about a six month period where I spent pretty much every day in a revert war with various people who definitely didn't know anything about the field/area I was trying to provide some inf
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by elblanco 16y ago
Which brings up an interesting point, would engineering methods other than the waterfall method have even worked for this? It certainly sounds like Babbage struggled with this.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I often find that when I'm playing an old game in an emulator that supports these filters I don't use them...even if they look stunning with the filters on, they games look "wrong" somehow (perhaps they don't fit my grainy memory of them so
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm not an LDS by any possible stretch of the imagination, but I must say, SLS is actually a really nice town in a fantastically cool and wonderfully bizarre geographical setting. Flying into the city and over the salt marshes, is like flyi
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by elblanco 16y ago
I have to agree with you on this, nothing drives me more to distraction with modern web design than the tremendous amounts of wastes space on my screen. I do exactly what you do, zoom the page until the content fills the horizontal width of
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by elblanco 16y ago
A terrible amount of the effort in modern enterprise software engineering is bridging the gap between business logic and code. Layers upon layers of diagrams and modeling techniques and pseudo-code systems are all purely intended to try and
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by elblanco 16y ago
For a second I thought that was graph of the company I work for...right now we're in the wiggles of false hope having just come out of a very rough crash of ineptitude under a previous administration.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> When I was growing up in the 70s, we had a food pyramid that was based on carbohydrates Any wonder that America's obesity epidemic started around that time?
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by elblanco 16y ago
It'd feel more open if they actively designed the OS to make it hard to lock down, thus requiring rooting.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> The only way vertical farming becomes reasonable is with cheap energy, and high food costs I'd argue it'd only become tenable with high land costs. The cheaper energy is, the less sense vertical farming becomes since it makes the tran
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by elblanco 16y ago
good luck with that....seriously there's always page 3 girls
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by elblanco 16y ago
Far too many physical metaphors, I thought we got over that in the early 90's with MS-Bob. Designers, please, if you are thinking of using wood paneling or shelves in your design, stop , move on to the next idea.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Right, I like to think that there are milieus of English with which knowledge and conformance can be useful. Formal writing for example. But to say that the rules of formal writing should be extended to all domains is akin to saying that al
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by elblanco 16y ago
Interesting point, which brings up a pseudo-philosophical question, should we consider humans living in large cities a kind of super-organism in a similar manner?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Because there is no such thing as correct English.
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by elblanco 16y ago
This is far too forward looking to ever happen in the U.S.
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by elblanco 16y ago
As someone with a CS background who has worked with several very talented self-taught programmers in the past I can echo this. Even if they knew a particular language or environment better than I did, I could usually write faster or more ef
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by elblanco 16y ago
I found the Gap Cycle rather good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle and really quite enjoyed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nights_Dawn_Trilogy and found pretty much everything in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Spac
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by elblanco 16y ago
spot on! I can usually muddle through Spanish and French signs when I travel, but I'm terrified of traveling to China or Japan where the signs are quite a bit more impenetrable.
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by elblanco 16y ago
What's next, universal translators that also make everybody's lips move correctly for the language we are hearing? Perhaps Star Trek got it correct? Amazing...Android app next?
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by elblanco 16y ago
> engine-oil taste of the great imperial stouts That's precisely the taste I'm looking for in a good stout...that or old burned steak and rye bread.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yeah, I was thinking BPEL for a minute...
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by elblanco 16y ago
> And should this surprise anyone? Does anyone here think there's low price/quality correlation in beer? Perhaps...there's some superb regular day drinkers that run under $2/bottle...and some of the more expensive specialty beers can co
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by elblanco 16y ago
I usually find the best wines run between $7-$14. In fact my current favorite wine runs about $8-9. http://www.penfolds.com.au/brand_penfolds/wines/koonunga-hil... And I've found this gem for under $12. http://wine90.blogspot.com/2007/12
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by elblanco 16y ago
Once again reminding us that no matter how cool our phones are in the U.S., East Asia stays a step ahead. sigh
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by elblanco 16y ago
Perhaps I should clarify, one of the outstanding issues with the group environment in modern prisons is the highly unsupervised nature of it all. Prisoners form prison gangs, establish strict social rules, violence becomes the norm, gang ra
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by elblanco 16y ago
One of the problems is that there are actually relatively few big cities in the U.S. that also have the quality of being nice places to live. Most of them are huge (or formerly huge) manufacturing centers, populated by people looking for un

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