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by algoshift 15y ago
Not that impressive if you are familiar with the technology. As someone mentioned, this is, at its simplest, an RC helicopter inside a sphere. RC helicopters have had off-the-shelf 3 axis gyros and 3 axis accelerometers available for quite
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by algoshift 15y ago
IBM: Watson. Now, if Apple could buy IBM...
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by algoshift 15y ago
Let's see, for $250 you can spend $10 per room in sensors. Let's say you have 10 rooms. The remaining $150 can easily cover the cost of a fairly intelligent controller. That would be a better system with potential for far more intelligen
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by algoshift 15y ago
> I think a little creativity in the payment model could help this problem a lot. 100% agreed.
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by algoshift 15y ago
The "Nest" is simply the wrong approach. By itself it is nearly worthless (my not-so-humble opinion) for anyone but the most technologically incompetent thermostat users out there. And even then, you'd have to wonder. Where is the data on
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by algoshift 15y ago
Well, I am not doing an off the shelf whole house fan. Clearly some of the issues you mentioned are very real. Dust can be easily handled with filtering. My summer long experiment proved that you can cool a house and avoid using the AC u
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by algoshift 15y ago
Ridiculous. Depending on where you live you can save more money by simply using a good size fan blowing cold air into the house at night during the summer. We did just that this summer and did not have to use the air conditioner at all, ev
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by algoshift 15y ago
The reason you get head nods when you relate this experience, in my opinion, is that versions of this sort of thing are all too common when hiring sales people. Sorry to be biased, but I'll go as far as saying that there's a certain separa
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by algoshift 15y ago
I guess I am interpreting things differently. On learning that the "+" button is now used as the camera shutter button and that a number of people where having trouble with it I decided to run a little experiment. I gave the phone to about
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IOS5 & "+" button = Upside-Down Pictures?
1 points by algoshift 15y ago|2 comments
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by algoshift 15y ago
I think context is important here. I don't think I am wrong in saying that most YC startups consist of 20-somethings, perhaps even in their low 20's. At this age few are truly prepared for the stress, conflict and issues that running a bu
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by algoshift 15y ago
Sorry it took a few days to reply to this. Too busy writing code... With regards to the argument that describes the resources required for customer support even to a small percentage of your audience I can only say this: It's your chosen
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by algoshift 15y ago
Matt, I think the main problem (having seen what it looks and feels like on the receiving end) is that Google's solution and treatment of the site owner is, for lack of a better term, rather violent. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who
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by algoshift 15y ago
Similar professional experience: I go back to having built rudimentary microprocessors with diode arrays and gates; Creating my own microcode and ALU; Wire-wrapping my own computers using 8080, 6502 and other early processors; Punching in
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by algoshift 15y ago
You might be assuming tech-capable users. My concern focuses around those like my parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends and acquaintances for whom what happens past the keyboard and mouse is as mysterious as can be. Trying to educate u
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Is web security a hopeless pursuit?
3 points by algoshift 15y ago|2 comments
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by algoshift 15y ago
So...rather than focus on the substance of the post and say something intelligent about a serious subject matter you choose to critique style. What if I actually wanted to SHOUT? And, on top of that, you down-vote me for style without knowi
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by algoshift 15y ago
Oh, please...
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by algoshift 15y ago
As long as our political system continues to be run on professional politicians who pander to their base in order to keep their jobs we will never fix anything. Anyone who runs a household, a business, or both, clearly understands that some
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by algoshift 15y ago
I find this comment in the article to be very interesting: "the reported industry average for invalidations during IP review is around 90 percent." It would be very interesting to have a look at stats on patent invalidation reviews. If the
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by algoshift 15y ago
Multiple monitors. Why try to cram it all into one? It makes no sense. It is not uncommon for me to have ten applications open and actively in use. In some cases (say, Excel) multiple files open. On our engineering workstations we have
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by algoshift 15y ago
A keyboard shortcut does not fix a bad UI.
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by algoshift 15y ago
Well, as far as multiple displays is concerned MacOS UX has been broken since day one. It is absolute lunacy to have the menu bar for an application pinned to the first display while the application opens in a second or third display. Our
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by algoshift 15y ago
Minimum two large monitors, say, 24in 1920 x 1200. Preferably three. This, in my opinion, enhances productivity far more than the difference between a 3GHz and 4GHz machine. That said...fast is good...faster is better...ridiculously fast is
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by algoshift 15y ago
OK, well, yet another US Patent that virtually any engineer with only two neurons left in their brain would say: "Yup, been there, done that". Patent number 5,946,647 describes recognizing text within strings and doing something with it.
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by algoshift 15y ago
Apple's insistence on trying to overload one and only one button with all of this functionality is the real problem. I understand "cool" design. However, you can't beat hardware buttons and controls when used correctly. The iPhone should
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by algoshift 15y ago
Interesting...but I can't see using it for a desktop system. As a heavy user of a number of engineering and software development tools I just can't imagine how this is any good. For example, I don't see using Solidworks or AutoCAD with my
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by algoshift 15y ago
The patent office should charge some amount with every software patent application to be used for the determination of obviousness or prior art. Then it should post the problems on sites such as this one or StackOverflow as a request for c
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by algoshift 15y ago
I'll take this up a few notches and proclaim that almost all commonly used languages offer "high impedance" when it comes to the jump from thought to the expression of that thought for a machine to execute. This does not mean that they are
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by algoshift 16y ago
I wonder if age and experience might be a component here. A lot of the internet startups quoted as examples of two founders being ideal were founded by really young people. In that context having support might be an absolute necessity. H

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