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by gottebp 9y ago
I love guilds. I know the article mixes the term with unions, but they are truly different. For a union the primary weapon is withholding of labor by many (replaceable) individual members. Guilds however do not need large numbers to be powe
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by gottebp 9y ago
Every idea looks simple and obvious in hindsight. When a small business has an idea it is their whole world. They think about it day and night and have to constantly improve upon it or die. A small idea can sustain a small business. A small
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by gottebp 9y ago
I use F.lux because they are the little guy, and first to this market by a long shot. Getting Sherlocked [1] by the big players after years of original work on a project is terrible. Lots of small businesses (or projects for that matter) is
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by gottebp 9y ago
Interesting you mention that. A lot of recent focus has gone into support for gamers. There was some effort to augment high end mice by taking a high DPI high sample rate and turning it into a smoother signal, while still being responsive.
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by gottebp 9y ago
Sahil, who's a HN user here, gets the credit for that minimalist payment form design. Gumroad is my payment processor. It gets a lot right and allowed for product launch to happen about three months earlier than it would have otherwise
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by gottebp 9y ago
That's my secret sauce, however a RESNA[1] publication[2] a few years back seems to have done a bit of reverse-engineering on the old SteadyMouse 1 free version if you are interested. [1] https://www.resna.org/ [2] http
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by gottebp 9y ago
Thanks for the apt feedback. The journey to make the site and product more immediately intuitive and understandable for the elderly is ongoing. I hope to eventually incorporate much of the guidance here [1]. The software itself does have lo
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by gottebp 9y ago
Admittedly, I have work to do there. Changing to a Responsive design is high on the TODO list.
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by gottebp 9y ago
Aww shucks! Founder here. Can't say I expected this to hit the front page today. SteadyMouse[1] has been a labor of love the past several years. It actually started as a bit of a hobby project after my grandfather was diagnosed with Pa
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Show HN: A mouse for shaky hands
5 points by gottebp 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: SteadyMouse – Solving the Parkinson's Disease cursor control problem(steadymouse.com)
4 points by gottebp 9y ago|1 comments
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by gottebp 9y ago
Cold climates encourage indoor activities.
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by gottebp 10y ago
A tremor disruptor! Very cool idea. It might work well together with SteadyMouse with the bracelet disrupting the tremor from "getting going" and SteadyMouse taking out the remainder.
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by gottebp 10y ago
My grandfather has Parkinson's disease and the hand tremors that go with. This makes using a mouse nearly impossible because the cursor flies all over the place. I created free software called SteadyMouse[1] back in 2005 to remove this
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by gottebp 10y ago
I'd really love to have a uBlock Origin/AdBlock type of program to maintain my phone's calling number blacklist. eg: If more than X Android users block a number it should block automatically for everyone. Guessing the blackli
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by gottebp 10y ago
Metal is too expensive still. Next step is porcelain. I made one prototype so far. It failed because the glazing process "puffed" the surface out of acceptable tolerance. I plan to inversely deform the mesh to compensate for this
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by gottebp 10y ago
I'm an amateur at this part, but I've reason to believe it's fine. The material is a Nylon plastic. "Polyamide PA 2200" according to ShapeWays. This link[1] has details on the material when used with laser sintering
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by gottebp 10y ago
Not me. I haven't done much to advertise besides iFixit and a post to an ebay forum.
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by gottebp 10y ago
About once per month. I purposely set expectations low by saying it may take a little sanding. That lets me over-deliver since it's usually a perfect fit. Also, ShapeWays has a decent refund policy and customer service for stuff under
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by gottebp 10y ago
Hmm, it's my own custom design and not a copy of Breville's. The blade geometry is especially different. Is that the angle you were thinking of?
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by gottebp 10y ago
Breville coffee grinders are impossible to get internal parts for. I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL SmartGrinder. The storefront is through ShapeWays[1] and I use ifixit[2] to drive the traffic. It&#x
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by gottebp 10y ago
It's pretty much the LiftWare spoon concept for your mouse, except the whole thing got started a lot earlier. The SteadyMouse 2 redesign has been my all-consuming-project for the last two years. There are two opposing forces: Cursor la
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Show HN: SteadyMouse, Anti-tremor filtering for your mouse(steadymouse.com)
9 points by gottebp 10y ago|4 comments
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by gottebp 11y ago
There's a wonderful BBC documentary about how we ended up in this mess and the vitality of beauty in our everyday lives. If you've never had the pleasure, you'll need about an hour, and you will find yourself thinking about i
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by gottebp 12y ago
At the full blown materialist end there's another big problem though: Are you just a cloud of ever changing atoms mistaken for a person? Since almost none of the atoms from your childhood remain in you now, are you actually the same in
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by gottebp 12y ago
It's a false dichotomy to say the only two choices are 1) Acceptance of the Mediocrity Principle or 2) Believing you are the center of the universe. I can easily posit a third option where some aspect of our Universe and existence is s
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by gottebp 12y ago
How does one prove this "Mediocrity Principle"? "Specialness" is in the realm of philosophy and from that perspective, this principle just comes across as a mellow form of nihilism. Telling students to filter all of scie
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by gottebp 12y ago
When I saw your first article, a light bulb went on. The huge spike starting in 2011 is also the same year that DCFS declined to renew its contract with Catholic Charities. That connection is not mentioned at all in the article, but it coul
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by gottebp 12y ago
Wow, I really appreciate that! /I must admit, the community here really impresses me with comments like this.
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by gottebp 12y ago
Hey, thanks! I'd also love to see it built in to operating systems someday. It'd be much cleaner and easier to implement there as well. When I wrote steadymouse I had two choices: 1) Implement a driver (which is overkill if you as

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