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by calchris42 10y ago
It seems to me that the money question confounds two factors. As I recall (possibly incorrectly), studies find that increased pay doesn't correlate with increased work / productivity. That's probably true. If I'm working
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by calchris42 10y ago
Author here. Very curious of HN community's thoughts on this idea. Would you use such a system? What for? Why or why not? We're considering whether to build out the avatar conferencing system. As mentioned in the blog, there are s
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“video” conferencing with 1% the bandwidth?(hackernoon.com)
6 points by calchris42 10y ago|1 comments
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Video conferencing with avatars?(hackernoon.com)
1 points by calchris42 10y ago|0 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
Cool. Looks like that is on Netflix, so will have to check it out. Do they make the idea look promising? Or really dumb?
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by calchris42 10y ago
Author here. This post is about an idea we're considering implementing. Would greatly appreciate the feedback of HN community. Thanks! I'll be around for any questions or discussion.
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Video conferencing without the video(medium.com)
8 points by calchris42 10y ago|6 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
Agreed asynchronous communications can have a ton of benefit as mentioned in the article (fewer meetings, schedule flexibility). But on the other hand, taken to the extreme, this also can lead to just the isolation the article mentions. I s
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Winter fun – a glowing fire – no JS(hackernoon.com)
2 points by calchris42 10y ago|0 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
Probably true. The extra requirements on durability probably make it rediculous. But I still prefer my reporting to at least attempt to give pros and cons and reasoned arguments. It's too easy to quote a number on infrastructure projec
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by calchris42 10y ago
Wow. That's a really negative article. Focus is completely on the cost of a proof of concept project. What is the promised ultimate cost? (Not that promises come true or anything...)
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by calchris42 10y ago
Certainly not revolutionary to any real artist or CSS ninja, but a fun trick for the winter season.
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Glowing, crackling fire in CSS and html (no JS)(medium.com)
1 points by calchris42 10y ago|1 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
Would be really interesting to combine this with failure rate data. What fraction of companies not raising another round is due to failure vs. No longer requiring additional venture funds. The long term goal of a business is not to raise mo
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by calchris42 10y ago
Thanks. You're right. I over-simplified / miss-spoke.
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by calchris42 10y ago
Slack calls are built on webRTC, and actually it isn't too bad adding screen sharing functionality with webRTC. I wrote a blog post on this recently. And actually, with the Screen Hero team on board, should be even way simpler for them
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by calchris42 10y ago
Slack audio calling is using webRTC tech. On Chrome, you can check out statistics and configuration for how they set up the call by going to chrome://webrtc-internals I checked, and it looks like they are using pretty standard web
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by calchris42 10y ago
For sure. The focus on "your cell phone battery" is a bit narrow. But I guess just a simple to understand example.
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by calchris42 10y ago
Ahh, happy accidents.. an engineer's best friend.
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Student accidentally invents phone battery capable of 200k recharges(businessinsider.de)
17 points by calchris42 10y ago|11 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
OP here. I’m curious on this question for a few reasons. -- I have worked primarily from home the last ~6 years and I’m curious of others’ opinions. -- I’ve been working on a new conferencing app (Locus, https://inthelocus.com
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Ask HN: What type of remote work do you find optimal and why?
1 points by calchris42 10y ago|2 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
Yeah, at the lithography company, only senior "can't lose them" people were even given this option. And not like it was offered, just that the option could be taken by not giving much of a choice. That probably bothered some
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by calchris42 10y ago
OP here. I’m curious on this question for a few reasons. -- I have worked primarily from home the last ~6 years and I’m curious of others’ opinions. -- I’ve been working on a new conferencing app (Locus, https://inthelocus.com
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Ask HN: What type of remote work do you find optimal and why?
2 points by calchris42 10y ago|4 comments
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by calchris42 10y ago
A team chatroom... what a nice idea. This was a larger, more enterprise company. Enough said? But seriously, I think the answer depends heavily on company and team size. The role I mention is a lot less critical for smaller teams or when th
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by calchris42 10y ago
The article pretty much ignores factors external to the development team. In my experience at a larger company, a key role of tech lead is as a central communication point for other teams / disciplines / projects. It becomes infea
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by calchris42 10y ago
Seriously. I've only recently started following Product Hunt, but at least for it's email updates, it seems to heavily focus on companies that are pretty far from "startup". Most recent featured products are from Netflix
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by calchris42 10y ago
Nice article showing how NPS was useful for you. I'd be curious how this compares with other metrics.
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by calchris42 10y ago
In finance this is called efficient market hypothesis. And as I understand, generally considered false. From Efficient Market Hypothesis: Is The Stock Market Efficient? | Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/articles&#x2

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