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by gduffy 7y ago
Former co-founder & CEO of Dropcam (Nest cam) here. There's no way to say this humbly, but imo stuff like this is the reason that companies lose their way when they lose an empowered "buck stops here" product-oriented C
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by gduffy 8y ago
Not anymore. # Changelog ## v2.0 - removed DHT [...] - bootstraping and peer exchange from one or more nodes
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by gduffy 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
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by gduffy 11y ago
On behalf of the team, thank you very much! There was a lot left to do to make Dropcam the product we all knew it could be in the future. The thermostat was a nice product, and that's part of what's so interesting about the backst
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by gduffy 11y ago
No, believe it or not he said it explicitly on the record to Reed when he was interviewed. That's one of the reasons I agreed to respond, and then I decided to follow up with this Medium post to make sure things were ultra clear.
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by gduffy 11y ago
Believe it or not, it wasn't really Google's fault. Agreed that it is sad and infuriating, though.
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by gduffy 11y ago
[Citation needed] You could sweat off the heat from 1000 kcal/day of thermogenesis (or any other bodily exothermic reactions) in just 75 mL/hr of extra sweat. You're sweating about 25 mL/hr even when you don't notic
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by gduffy 11y ago
What if your co-worker requires 2x the willpower to overcome their genetic predispositions to consuming sweet food, but they only come up with 1.5x your willpower (and therefore fail)? Are they still "lazy" even though they are tr
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by gduffy 13y ago
Helicopters can be landed softly without power, via autorotation. It's not hard to imagine an autonomous helicopter that can manage autorotations. Some drones already do. But for people-carrying operations, it would need to have an extremel
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by gduffy 14y ago
If you're just asking for point examples, Dropcam (my company) could stream at higher quality (1080p+) and/or support many more cameras per household. At 1Gbps, cloud storage/backup becomes fast like local storage, but has the benefit of be
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by gduffy 14y ago
Dropcam, San Francisco, CA. Full-time and intern (onsite only). https://www.dropcam.com/jobs Dropcam's cloud service accepts more incoming video per minute than YouTube. We make a Wi-Fi camera and cloud service that allows users to monito
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by gduffy 14y ago
I think in 10 years this question will be regarded the same as "who needs a personal computer?" is today. Similar questions were asked about always-on broadband (vs dialup), gigabytes/terabytes of memory/disk, etc. We've been pretty good a
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by gduffy 14y ago
Cool! Here's the lowdown on security: Dropcams encrypt all communications with TLS and use client certs + server certs, so they're resistant to sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks even on open Wi-Fi networks. Video does pass through our
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by gduffy 14y ago
This type of plastic is used to shield LEDs in many infrared remote controls (TV, stereo, etc). We used a variant of it to make the entire "puck" of the Dropcam ( http://www.dropcam.com ) so that you wouldn't have to see the ugly IR emitter
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by gduffy 14y ago
Can you do it automatically whenever the iPhone camera app takes a picture?
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by gduffy 14y ago
Before complaining, you must ask the quintessential iOS development question: "is there an allowed API to accomplish it?" The Android corollary is: "Does it work on my ARMv6 Android 2.1 toaster? And can it use the hardware acceleration feat
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by gduffy 15y ago
Live streaming. Especially low (well, low er than HLS for example) latency streaming.
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by gduffy 15y ago
It's only a pricing thing. (Think of it as a variable capex/opex tradeoff) Source: AWS guys that I met a couple of weeks ago were repeating this like a mantra (I think they get a lot of support requests for it)
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by gduffy 15y ago
1. Why is a 20x P/E ratio appropriate for a high-growth tech startup? 2. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/18/reviewing-dropboxs-vi... 3. File sharing is, like, what the Internet was originally invented for. Quite a few people use the I
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by gduffy 15y ago
Plenty of non-startup companies trade at 20-100x P/E ratios. Dropbox is clearly insanely profitable at only 65 employees. Especially because they are running de-duplicated storage on top of highly negotiated AWS pricing (they are likely t
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by gduffy 15y ago
Continued here: http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/...
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Riak doesn't use consistent hashing(lists.basho.com)
9 points by gduffy 15y ago|2 comments
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by gduffy 16y ago
San Francisco, CA Dropcam - Started by two former Xobni employees, we are helping people keep an eye on the things they care about using Wi-Fi cameras with cloud DVR recording. We take in more video than YouTube and are one of the largest v
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by gduffy 16y ago
Congratulations DocVerse! What an awesome group of people. For those who don't know them, Google acquired them last year presumably to build exactly this. From my experience, integrating with MS Office/Outlook APIs is no walk in the park, s
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by gduffy 16y ago
I'd guess anywhere from 100GB to 1TB every month depending on whether you did the inline style suggestion and/or the gzip suggestion. This page gzip'd: http://www.google.com/search?q=30+*+1e6+*+(52KB-10KB) Front page gzip'd: http://www.g
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Dropcam releases Android App(market.android.com)
9 points by gduffy 16y ago|1 comments
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by gduffy 16y ago
Dropcam, SF, CA (no telecommute) http://www.dropcam.com/jobs
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by gduffy 16y ago
Congratulations! We hear a lot of fun stuff from our baby monitoring customers. One of our users called it "Baby TiVo" ... you can export clips to send to the family, so it's lots of fun. As for screenshots, did you check out http://www.dr
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by gduffy 16y ago
My weekend hacking on IP cameras turned into a startup: Dropcam ( http://www.dropcam.com ). Dropcams can push alert your iPhone on motion or sound and they store up to 30 days of video. When I was a kid, I had the Firecracker serial-to-wire
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by gduffy 16y ago
SF, CA (no telecommute) Dropcam is hiring for 6 awesome engineering positions and 1 lead design role: http://www.dropcam.com/jobs Great problems to work on in streaming, storage, video analysis, web, and mobile.

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