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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 Forw…

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 this http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/08/19/national-secu...

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.…

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 f…

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 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 i…

just like he backed out of being disappointed in the watch itself?

> 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 gro…

> 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…

> What part is Apple playing catch up with exactly? Existing.

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 pl…

> 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…

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 URL…

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 …

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'…

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…

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 ov…

> 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 play…

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…

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 narro…

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 g…

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 co…

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 lo…

> 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. …