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Ha, I forgot about that door opener! I found the page: https://bradfitz.com/misc/projects/remotedoor/ https://bradfitz.com/misc/projects/remotedoor/

heed 7y ago
That looks like the Mercer dorm at the University of Washington!
- bradfitz 7y ago
  Yup. RIP.
  - ElderKorihor 7y ago
    Ha. Around this same time my friends and I set up a vaguely similar system across campus in Haggett Hall. There was a :CueCat at the bottom of the door outside and you'd scan your student ID to trigger a solenoid to spin the doorknob on the inside.
RobertRoberts 7y ago
How did you deal with people criticizing your masking tape construction? This has been a bane for me since I can remember. I love prototyping but hate the instant terrible feedback. People often look at the construction instead of the results and/or can't/won't imagine it a first step or how awesome a final product it can turn into.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  Do things for yourself, not for others. Don't even look at the comments. Turn them off if you can. They're not paying you, so you are under no obligation to please them. On the other hand, if you know that you're going to get undesired feedback, why post your stuff in public in the first place? You don't get the glory without the risk. Before the internet, people did things because they liked to, and because they enjoyed them. They didn't need the praise of a thousand random strangers to feel good about their accomplishments.
  - RobertRoberts 7y ago
    Something you didn't address, unwarranted critisim or just plain mean comments can just hurt or drain you emotionally. It can rob you of desire to work or entirely demotivate you from your original goal. While you may argue "deal with it", and rightly so in most circumstances, but then you are only addressing an issue of grit. I have plenty of grit in _some_ areas of my life, but not _all_ areas of my life. And, sometimes the negativity is unexpected like when you are just showing something you find cool or neat that you built. (ie, I have never once put my code out in public nor sought praise for it) Everyone has a limit where they can't take any more negative feedback on something. And with prototyping I have found it better to wait to show the client until it's in an "appealing" state. Hence my question about masking tape prototype. (my favorite material to build with as a kid because it was plentiful and easy to rip, but was unappealing visually)
    - matz1 7y ago
      To not give a fuck, like anything else is something that you can train yourself to get used to.
    - incompatible 7y ago
      Criticism doesn't bother me. It will generally come into three categories: 1. Insults and trolling with no valid content: this tells me nothing I didn't know already, that there are morons in the world 2. Valid criticisms, but things that I already know about and either can't do anything about or where I decided it wasn't worth the effort: again nothing I didn't already know 3. Valid criticisms that I hadn't thought of: these contain new information and are potentially very useful. The masking tape criticism would come into category 2.
      - RobertRoberts 7y ago
        "That sucks" is valid criticism for many people, as well as "who would want that?" and "why did you waste your time?". Your categories are all logical responses, what about the immediate emotional effects of the responses? If you have never experienced an immediate emotional response from criticism I count you extremely lucky that you don't have to face it. But for those of us that do, we are looking for answer to the emotional side of things. Is there some technique you have used to blunt the emotions and look at them only logically?
- Buge 7y ago
  > I'm not talking fashion, Mr. Fox, so much as function. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/976f8050-5fc9-4cbc-abf3-16cfaa41d861 https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/976f8050-5fc9-4cbc-abf3-16cfaa4...
- lonelappde 7y ago
  Ignore the incompetent haters. Problem solved.
lpgauth 7y ago
Oh wow, I remember reading this back in the day.

heed 7y ago

That looks like the Mercer dorm at the University of Washington!

bradfitz 7y ago
Yup. RIP.
- ElderKorihor 7y ago
  Ha. Around this same time my friends and I set up a vaguely similar system across campus in Haggett Hall. There was a :CueCat at the bottom of the door outside and you'd scan your student ID to trigger a solenoid to spin the doorknob on the inside.

RobertRoberts 7y ago

How did you deal with people criticizing your masking tape construction? This has been a bane for me since I can remember. I love prototyping but hate the instant terrible feedback. People often look at the construction instead of the results and/or can't/won't imagine it a first step or how awesome a final product it can turn into.

reaperducer 7y ago
Do things for yourself, not for others. Don't even look at the comments. Turn them off if you can. They're not paying you, so you are under no obligation to please them. On the other hand, if you know that you're going to get undesired feedback, why post your stuff in public in the first place? You don't get the glory without the risk. Before the internet, people did things because they liked to, and because they enjoyed them. They didn't need the praise of a thousand random strangers to feel good about their accomplishments.
- RobertRoberts 7y ago
  Something you didn't address, unwarranted critisim or just plain mean comments can just hurt or drain you emotionally. It can rob you of desire to work or entirely demotivate you from your original goal. While you may argue "deal with it", and rightly so in most circumstances, but then you are only addressing an issue of grit. I have plenty of grit in _some_ areas of my life, but not _all_ areas of my life. And, sometimes the negativity is unexpected like when you are just showing something you find cool or neat that you built. (ie, I have never once put my code out in public nor sought praise for it) Everyone has a limit where they can't take any more negative feedback on something. And with prototyping I have found it better to wait to show the client until it's in an "appealing" state. Hence my question about masking tape prototype. (my favorite material to build with as a kid because it was plentiful and easy to rip, but was unappealing visually)
  - matz1 7y ago
    To not give a fuck, like anything else is something that you can train yourself to get used to.
  - incompatible 7y ago
    Criticism doesn't bother me. It will generally come into three categories: 1. Insults and trolling with no valid content: this tells me nothing I didn't know already, that there are morons in the world 2. Valid criticisms, but things that I already know about and either can't do anything about or where I decided it wasn't worth the effort: again nothing I didn't already know 3. Valid criticisms that I hadn't thought of: these contain new information and are potentially very useful. The masking tape criticism would come into category 2.
    - RobertRoberts 7y ago
      "That sucks" is valid criticism for many people, as well as "who would want that?" and "why did you waste your time?". Your categories are all logical responses, what about the immediate emotional effects of the responses? If you have never experienced an immediate emotional response from criticism I count you extremely lucky that you don't have to face it. But for those of us that do, we are looking for answer to the emotional side of things. Is there some technique you have used to blunt the emotions and look at them only logically?
Buge 7y ago
> I'm not talking fashion, Mr. Fox, so much as function. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/976f8050-5fc9-4cbc-abf3-16cfaa41d861 https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/976f8050-5fc9-4cbc-abf3-16cfaa4...
lonelappde 7y ago
Ignore the incompetent haters. Problem solved.

lpgauth 7y ago

Oh wow, I remember reading this back in the day.