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- A former CTO made the decision to fork thread mesh protocol for an IoT project. Thread (and our development) was totally inadequate tech for industrial usage.
by c_o_n_v_e_x 4y ago
- A former CTO made the decision to fork thread mesh protocol for an IoT project. Thread (and our development) was totally inadequate tech for industrial usage. Months of development went by and no progress was made. We wound up licensing some proprietary mesh protocol.
- Same CTO somehow convinced investors there was no x86 machine available on the market with the right specs for what was needed… so they put together a team of hardware people to design and build a motherboard.
- Personal… bought a late 70’s / early 80’s Sol cat catamaran sail boat for 500 bucks while in college. Unbeknownst to me, the hulls were notorious for delaminating and I didn’t know what to look for at the time when I purchased it. Long story short - I spent months of effort fixing and painting it, a lot of money, and sailed it once before giving up on it (of course it partially sunk during the maiden voyage). It wound up blowing away in a hurricane.
- lostlogin 4y agoYour boat story is pretty much the same as every boat owner story I hear. The jokes about boats being a black hole for time and money seem to be accurate.
- ejb999 4y agoI think the joke is "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into"...also, the two happiest days of a boat owners life - the day he buys it, and the day he sells it.
- themaninthedark 4y agoI have always heard that the second best day is when you get the boat, the best day is when you sell it.
- drekipus 4y ago> so they put together a team of hardware people to design and build a motherboard That seems wild to me.. well not that it happened, but that someone thought that was a good idea.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 4y ago>but that someone thought that was a good idea. All of those "someones" were irrationally exuberant C-suite'r's and investors who had no prior experience in hardware.