elblanco

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by elblanco 12y ago
No, it's still current. If you take a peek at their careers page and look on the Business Development Team (that's the sales and partnership team) openings, it's chock full of Forward Deployed Engineer positions.
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by elblanco 12y ago
The FDE's shouldn't have been doing any core software development unless it was some kind of bespoke one-off code, some kind of helper app for a specific SAP program or something, and that software, code and all, now belongs to
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by elblanco 12y ago
And this http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/08/19/national-secu...
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by elblanco 12y ago
Here's a long thread on just this topic here on Hacker News. One of their senior engineers jumped in to "clarify". It's worth reading the entire exchange. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1461136 I t
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by elblanco 12y ago
eldemar is providing some of the information. I'd add some color the i2 suit. The fraud perpetrated by Palantir was actually so organized and so bad (they set up an entirely fake front company in another state), that the suing company
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by elblanco 12y ago
Well, feel free to buy a core and let me know how long it takes before you're up and running. Having been on the inside during 3 of their deployments, and on the outside of 2 more, I can definitely say 90 days is wildly optimistic. ed
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by elblanco 12y ago
I presume you're talking about the DCGS-A system. Palantir has done an expert level job confusing the public on this. That system definitely has problems (it's terrible and sucks in many places), but it's a system of much l
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by elblanco 12y ago
just like he backed out of being disappointed in the watch itself?
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by elblanco 12y ago
> Maybe the Zoom-UI The ZoomUI looked terrible to me. After years of huge iPads with only 4 icons across on it, because that supposedly makes them easier to use, the tiny tight grocery fruit pack of the icons looks like a usability night
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by elblanco 12y ago
> in the traditional Gruber understanding of what makes Apple great The thing is, Gruber's mutant power is the ability to turntwist just about anything Apple does into a core Apple value and what defines them and makes them great. I
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by elblanco 12y ago
> What part is Apple playing catch up with exactly? Existing.
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by elblanco 12y ago
there's a fair amount of vendor lock-in in this space as well and Palantir is pretty good at it. They talk quite a bit about open standards and what not. But moving off of their platform and onto one of the competing ones is basically
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by elblanco 12y ago
> raised almost a billion dollars and is valued at something like $9 billion dollars. And now particular plans to sell or go public. This keeps all their financials private and the fact that they have to keep doing new fundraising rounds
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by elblanco 12y ago
Their implementation periods are horrendous. Their marketing speak and sales drones make it sound like a turnkey appliance...like you just drop it in, point it to your database URLS and you're now playing with knowledge management. But
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by elblanco 12y ago
It really is an ugly square brick, regardless of how nice the bands are. For a company that wanted you to think difference, which I interpret to mean "don't be a square", all this squareness and market conformity is really di
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by elblanco 12y ago
Funny you should mention that. Palantir's main competition in the governmeent, i2, is now IBM. i2 was selling their software at some fraction of Palantir's and in the DoD space it's basically as ubiquitous as Microsoft Office
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by elblanco 12y ago
Pretty much all the smartwatches have sufficient internal storage for some music. They're probably all just an app away from supporting this kind of use-case. In other words Gruber's case on this is irrelevant.
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by elblanco 12y ago
I've done a bit of work with Palantir. This is basically spot on. They're really cagey about the core/user requirement in real life so I'd be comfortable in saying most customer over purchase cores. They usually staff 2-
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by elblanco 12y ago
> And we know that Android Wear kind of sucks. So if they're not that different, Apple Watch will probably not be that great. that's really the salient point isn't it? Apple's playing catchup, but shooting for targets
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by elblanco 12y ago
Android wear is basically on gen 2 or 3. By the time Apple's Watch actually comes out they'll be on Gen 4 or 5. The iteration in Android land is breathtaking right now. And I think the devices (phones) at the mid and high end ar
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by elblanco 12y ago
hmm..so I looked it up. http://www.mva.maryland.gov/safety/mhso/program-bicycle-safe... > This ride-to-the-right provision does not apply when operating in a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle to travel safe
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by elblanco 12y ago
Lots of places have a dedicated community outreach officer. It would be worth calling the local precinct and finding out if they have somebody who can talk about road safety. You guys might even have some bike cops who can share and commise
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by elblanco 12y ago
Well you're also not being particularly pleasant in the exchange. Maybe you should go cool off or ride a bike or something to see things from his perspective. I get where you're coming from and what you're advocating, but you
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by elblanco 12y ago
Maryland. The law may have changed or I might be wrong about it. They used to not require helmets either. Growing up we used to get all kinds of community safety advice from the local schools and safe biking was a big push. I don't kno
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by elblanco 12y ago
> Note that the bicycle safety classes I mention above was not only free, they gave out free lights to boot! Oh that's awesome. I would have loved to have had something like that. Do you know if they have local police come in and gi
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by elblanco 12y ago
Hmmm...maybe you're right. For some reason I feel like I pay less here. I definitely get more service at least.
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by elblanco 12y ago
ehhh...You're probably right. I dunno about CA law. looking up the conversation, recursive and you seem kind of hung up on this wording "unless it's necessary for the safe operation" which I would interpret as meaning no
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by elblanco 12y ago
I think it'll definitely make biking more approachable for people who are interested but scared to ride next to vehicles and their inattentive drivers. One side benefit of lots of bike lanes is that they're also good spaces for pe
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by elblanco 12y ago
Part of the problem is that people get bikes as kids, then as they got older just start using them on the road without any real understanding of the laws and regulations on bikes. They don't realize that it's a vehicle, there&#x27
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by elblanco 12y ago
You guys have carried this disagreement all over this post. I think bane's point is that even though it's perfectly legal to ride a bike wherever a car can go (which is not true in some cases like highways and visa-versa like bike

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