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Tech1

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About Tech1

NYC

Embedded Software Engineer

adam.e.heller1 [at] gmail.com

https://github.com/HellerCommaA

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20587871

    Location: New York City (NYC), New York (Manhattan) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe (Toronto, Denver, Boston) Technologies: C, C++, Java, JavaScript Résumé/CV: On request to…

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    Comment #20163883

    (Just FYI I don't know if I could put a source / article on this, but this information was information that Robert Hanssen allegedly leaked to the Russians [Aldrich Ames also leake…

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    Comment #18700400

    Hopefully the week field is longer than 10 bits. That was a headache.

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    Comment #14507617

    I was at this event. Marilee was seated directly in front of my girlfriend and I (the stage / panel and the back of Marilee's head pictured: https://imgur.com/a/GEapw ). The interr…

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    Comment #13725036

    Prior US Army bomb technician checking in. Also look at State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program by Vil S Mirzayanov, Novichok is covered there…

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    Comment #13542974

    Drop your contact info in your profile please!

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    Comment #13280428

    I'm an ex Army bomb technician, let me help you. You know WMDs were found in Iraq right? ..Unless we're not calling stockpiled chemical weapons WMDs anymore. http://www.nytimes.com…

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    Comment #13145720

    I'm a pixel xl 128 owner too. As long as we're going down this route, has anyone else noticed weird 'refresh' lines drawing over top of images? They appear very briefly and very fa…

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    Comment #13053532

    +1. When did we start accepting alt-right blogs on HN?

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    Comment #12980609

    I was/(am?) a bomb tech, I didn't dig up a damn thing, we were too highly valued of an asset..And only having a small handful of us to support an entire theater of war makes us exc…

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    Comment #12966929

    Farah (2009 - 2010) EOD tech reporting in. We were almost all Hesco too. Oddly, we found a lot of PMNs[0] in our Hescos. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMN_mine

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    Comment #12625409

    Any thoughts on slang / secdb? or are you at a lower level? (i see low latency, don't think they're that close to the metal) ...or not at that firm? email's in my profile. Reach ou…

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    Comment #12620014

    30, M, NYC, 120k. Firmware (C++), and some Java. I just realized how bad I'm getting boned.

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    Comment #12581591

    He paid me $500 for a two letter .io I owned. I hope you got market value!

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    Comment #12513669

    These are still (very rarely) found by hikers in the pacific northwest (source: i'm a bomb tech). Other relevant / weird WWII reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb (US pr…

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    Comment #12492561

    Ex US Army bomb technician here (eod). This entire story is somewhat of a legend among our community (those that actually went through nukes at least). Added to our (me and the SO)…

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    Comment #12467467

    IIRC, flask deploys straight to AWS's elastic beanstalk (gunicorn) with minimal configuration, I even think it's given as an example in EB's docs. I've deployed an EB hosted flask …

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    Comment #12147908

    I was active Army EOD (TS-SCI) when both Chelsea's and Snowden's leaks happened. We were the opposite. Forbidden from accessing WL at all, even on our personal computers. No real w…

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    Comment #11917970

    Down in NYC Edit: and instagram won't refresh.

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    Comment #11830246

    Army EOD stepping in. *ordnance, common typo.

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    Comment #11799259

    I've got a triple head setup and a TrackIR v5 and play a lot of flight / combat (DCS series) sims (with a Warthog HOTAS), ARMA 3, and Elite Dangerous. It's worth it. I'm still stan…

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    Comment #11306584

    I live off the 1st Ave L stop (Stuy town). Take the L during rush hour and you'll see exactly what I deal with every day. I'm all for the 2nd Ave expansion, however I think that so…

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    Comment #11099616

    Just to give further explanation to everyone commenting on the 'warbot' phrase... The robots iRobot makes for use in war, are designed to save lives. Not take them. They saved my l…

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    Comment #11099581

    Ex Army Bomb Technician (EOD) here, now doing enterprise java / intranet stuff. Disclosure: I also used to work for one of iRobots competitors, Roboteam. My speculation is that the…