dconrad

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by dconrad 9y ago
Quite the contrary. Informal interviews provide no real information and cause interviewers to fall-back to stereotyping and unconscious bias. Formal interviews, done right, provide real data.
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It’s Time to Kill the Casual Interview(medium.com)
2 points by dconrad 9y ago|2 comments
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What happened to Apple?(medium.com)
1 points by dconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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Nest's economics don't work. Why IoT devices should be sold as services(medium.com)
9 points by dconrad 10y ago|6 comments
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Reasons carriers are building new cell networks for the Internet of Things(techcrunch.com)
22 points by dconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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The three reasons carriers are building new cell networks for IoT(blog.beepnetworks.com)
1 points by dconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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Apple is screwing up HomeKit; here’s how they can fix it(techcrunch.com)
3 points by dconrad 10y ago|1 comments
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by dconrad 10y ago
True in Europe (CE) but it works differently in the US (FCC). The FCC limits time spent transmitting in a single channel ("time on air"), but there's no duty cycle limit if you follow the channel hopping rules.
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by dconrad 10y ago
Sounds like an interesting challenge. Hit us up if you'd like to try out Beep's kit -- daniel at beepnetworks dot com.
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by dconrad 10y ago
Good point. I meant ad hoc tower deployment, not ad hoc mesh networks. Our topology is (mostly) star. Will update to clarify.
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Messy Networks for the Internet of Things(blog.beepnetworks.com)
2 points by dconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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Crazy Wireless Range in San Francisco. (LoRa Radio Tests)(blog.beepnetworks.com)
3 points by dconrad 10y ago|1 comments
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by dconrad 10y ago
http://blog.beepnetworks.com/
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LoRa Wireless Range Is Bananas. First Look at Cellular for IoT in San Francisco(blog.beepnetworks.com)
1 points by dconrad 10y ago|2 comments
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The Internet of Things is looking for its VisiCalc(blog.beepnetworks.com)
3 points by dconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab(nytimes.com)
134 points by dconrad 10y ago|74 comments
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by dconrad 10y ago
Some folks have asked -- is this really a cellular network? In the strictest sense, Yes -- it's a coordinated group of basestations which together form a large area network. The network stacks are not (yet) a part of the 3GPP standard.
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Why Amazon Is Going to Build Its Own Cellular Network(medium.com)
4 points by dconrad 10y ago|1 comments
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Good news: automation already destroyed most of the jobs(vox.com)
10 points by dconrad 10y ago|3 comments
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On-Demand Valet Parking Seemed Like Such a Great Idea. It Wasn't(bloomberg.com)
4 points by dconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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Verizon makes enough cash in one year to buy Sprint and T-Mobile(medium.com)
6 points by dconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by dconrad 11y ago
Appears that TP-Link's heart is not in this -- they're doing the minimum to comply with FCC rules. Will be interesting to watch the arms race between OpenWRT and the reluctant ODMs.
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by dconrad 11y ago
Maybe if you keep trying you'll get it right. :)
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On the Benefits of Cutting Your Own Hair(medium.com)
2 points by dconrad 11y ago|2 comments
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by dconrad 11y ago
I love those guys go support them! But you will have to wait a while for their hardware.
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by dconrad 11y ago
that's 1600 devices simultaneously communicating. a sensor might only spend a fraction of a percent of its time transmitting data, so the number of devices supported is orders of magnitude higher.
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by dconrad 11y ago
http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/sx1272-and-sx127...
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by dconrad 11y ago
nice, hit me up, daniel@
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by dconrad 11y ago
Yes, on the Continent, at least! I'm not sure about the UK. Both LoRa and Sigfox came out of French companies, and several wireless carriers have announced plans to build networks. Also check out The Things Network guys in Amsterdam wh
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by dconrad 11y ago
Maybe -- throughput depends on which radio tech we're talking about, and the networks need to get built with density appropriate for the task. LoRa radios that are close to a gateway can dynamically shift to a 300 Kbps mode, or down to

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