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by catherd 7y ago
Losing 30 minutes, eating in a noisy environment, and not being able to control how the restaurant manages a schedule the GP doesn't have insight into is awful? Getting pissed off over an experience like that is probably an appropriate
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by catherd 7y ago
In my experience, just avoiding the things listed as distractions doesn't have the desired outcome (which I read as the ability to really lose yourself in the experiences of being wherever you are). Even if it's only used for util
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by catherd 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | new product manufacturing launch | Remote only (occasional on-site OK) | Shenzhen, China Looking for new products in need of high volume manufacturing in a short time period. I can go through your hardware design to catch man
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by catherd 7y ago
at a guess: because they tend to emit disturbingly high levels of noise, and most animals generally don't like that. not sure where that argument goes when everyone is sleeping, though.
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by catherd 7y ago
Did a Kickstarter, got the money, now in China trying to finish it. Tried to send over a wire to pay for stuff and Chase's fraud detection algorithm cut off online access. Now they say I have to fly back to the US to unblock it. (Total
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Chase Bank: we help small businesses (by locking their accounts)(kickstarter.com)
3 points by catherd 7y ago|1 comments
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by catherd 7y ago
Chase bank has one of these as well. Pretty awesome to get a canned response (then ignored all weekend) when you get locked out of your bank while in a different country. https://twitter.com/ChaseSupport/status/113
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by catherd 7y ago
Cash still works exactly the way it always has, (almost) nobody is going to turn down your business because you don't pay by an app.
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by catherd 7y ago
Arriving to your destination not wet/frozen/soaked in sweat? Or with your luggage... through an area dangerous for walking... to a destination you aren't familiar with... because you are old or infirm.
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by catherd 7y ago
Actually, we're a contract manufacturer based in Shenzhen and that's what we sell them for. You probably made the right call, though, even if you had found a perfect supplier. Hardware projects funded by individuals almost always
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by catherd 7y ago
Not sure who you were talking to or how big your widget is, but if it's a single piece that fits in a 15cm cube and doesn't use expensive tolerances or shapes you're probably looking at somewhere between $4-$15k for a Chinese
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by catherd 7y ago
Not sure I agree with the hire a younger dev and start persuading option. In my managerial experience, it's almost impossible to change someone's core personality or their value system, either through words or through money. And e
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by catherd 7y ago
They may not be equivalent, but for the purposes of this situation they are both worthy of identifying. You're justifying the game plan of a certain type of programmer. I'm asking how to find someone who's professional toolbo
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by catherd 7y ago
Yes, there's a big difference between someone who can target 'results' and someone who immediately loses all interest once they reach the transition point between figuring the system out and implementing the plan to finish. I
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by catherd 7y ago
A simple image gallery of past projects will get 80% of the point across. A short explanation of the project and what the student's contribution was (if part of a team) would cover almost anything else a reviewer would likely care abou
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Ask HN: How do you identify programmers who finish things?
13 points by catherd 7y ago|13 comments
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by catherd 7y ago
Patents on algorithms are bad because any sane person would feel revulsion at the though of them? Is that the content of your argument? If Euclid's algorithm was patented in a system similar to our modern one, he would have... cornered
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by catherd 7y ago
I work with a team that spans native speaker to barely able to form English sentences, and communicating clearly in a mixed audience like that is really a completely separate skill from native language use. For the ones with minimal English
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by catherd 7y ago
Are you saying that this guy should fall on his sword because he messed up once (and learned from it)? Or that, having messed up once, he's obviously not qualified to make firing decisions? I'm failing to find a charitable interpr
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by catherd 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area/Shenzhen/Islamabad | Remote only Team of 4: PM, Mechanical, Electrical, and Software. We build smart hardware: $35k/month for the whole team. Only take one project at a time. We have an opening in A
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by catherd 7y ago
I automatically increase my bids by at least 30% if I learn there's a purchasing department involved. Invoicing an engineering manager who needs things to happen tends to be the least friction from my side. Even if it costs more on the
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by catherd 7y ago
It doesn't have to actually be right 100% of the time. The balance of downsides and upsides of any chosen solution just have to be more palatable than those of whatever alternate implementation you're considering, with a tradeoff
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by catherd 8y ago
Walmart generally allows it, but if local ordinances don't, you can't. You can't in the Mountain View Walmart, I assume for that reason. I ended up there once on an 8 month road trip and they asked me to leave. But there are
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by catherd 8y ago
The current plan is to ship the basic model first, then add things like modems if the reception supports the development effort. So far it looks like most people want 4G, even though it's quite expensive to add. I think too many market
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by catherd 8y ago
You might consider a WiPhone a few months from now once we're shipping them: (project preview link) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/338898127?re... It's intended to be hackable. The base
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by catherd 8y ago
That's exactly the motivation behind this phone, which has a simple OS and a connector on the back of it for hardware expansion: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/338898127?re... It's less
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by catherd 8y ago
Also seems like if you're going to rate a painting purely on how much of a rush it gives you to see it, having a subject matter like war that kicks right at the base of your humanity and then comparing it to an abstraction is a bit of
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by catherd 8y ago
It could potentially be done as a daughterboard. It's not on the immediate priority list, but especially if businesses start buying these and using them on corporate networks it might become important. I feel like most hobbyists aren&#
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by catherd 8y ago
These gateways will give you a free SIP account: - linphone.org - iptel.org - opensips.org - sip2sip.info
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by catherd 8y ago
Do you have QoS enabled on your router?

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