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by gridspy 13y ago
Gears are only required because human muscles only work efficiently at pedal RPM. In cars, they're only required because the engine is only efficient at certian RPM. Electric motors have a far greater range of RPM at which they can del
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by gridspy 13y ago
I need to spend as much time writing articles about the tech behind GridSpy as Boosted boards write about their tech. Not only is it fascinating, it's great branding and marketing collateral. I wasn't sure I wanted a boosted board
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by gridspy 13y ago
Hacker Scouts own post on this (plaintext as actual site is overloaded): Dear Hacker Scouts Community, We have good news and bad news. The bad news , which should always be delivered first, is that we have received another letter from the B
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by gridspy 13y ago
Electrons as Service (not a product)
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by gridspy 13y ago
It is overkill until you start to build something like http://gridspy.com (entire web stack in python) I find it extremely helpful to have symbol lookup in my own codebase, suggestions, fast file opening and the ability to have
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by gridspy 13y ago
It sounds like you have a very smart programmer who is a little antisocial and very bored. His value to you depends on how you structure his environment to make doing a good job more fun to him than torturing his co-workers. There's a
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by gridspy 13y ago
When I read your comment the first time, I read "Riches in Riches" This is equally true. Without sales, there is no money. Without money, no life or growth. Your point about a 2 person shop getting $250k is equally true. Of course
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by gridspy 13y ago
I for one am very excited. We've always wanted to do a kickstarter to launch our electricity monitor to a wider market. Right now we're forced to keep our production and our team small and costs high due to one off sales. Then aga
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Kickstarter coming to NZ and Australia(kickstarter.com)
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by gridspy 13y ago
It sounds like what you want is to run a tyranny. Freedom for you, damnit.
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by gridspy 13y ago
Hybrids do not store energy for the journey in the batteries, they store it in the fuel. The storage capacity of the fuel is not affected (much) by temperature. From a simple perspective, the batteries in a hybrid just serve to smooth out t
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by gridspy 13y ago
You need to put more links to your homepage near the bottom of your blog post. "I rethought the homepage’s message from the ground up to really explain what Folyo does, instead of just projecting a nice image (compare [THE NEW HOMEPAGE
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by gridspy 13y ago
Gosh, it really does make it an awful lot harder, doesn't it!
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by gridspy 13y ago
The grandparent runs ( https://www.hipdial.com/ ) about which the parent and I are talking. Those plans are far too lean. Also, I don't understand what a "local line" is when I go directly to your pricing page.
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by gridspy 13y ago
That sounds like the fly in the printer at the start of (the movie) Brazil. Which of course leads to the conviction and torture of an innocent....
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by gridspy 13y ago
Interesting. Gridspy ( http://gridspy.com ) is built on a lot of discrete components. We've got a variety of servers all talking via several APIs and pretty complex data flows in twisted and also in javascript in the browse
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by gridspy 13y ago
I really liked your take on viewing a repetitive task as a way to improve and relax. Another nice thing about a repetitive task is that it is perfectly predictable. You know exactly how long you should take because you've done it befor
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by gridspy 13y ago
A massive advantage of your new linear allocator is that it keeps your memory access continuous. This means that the processor is more likely to have the most recently used memory locations already in cache. You might see further improvemen
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by gridspy 13y ago
This was a fantastic article and a wonderfully complete software and hardware task spanning many disciplines. Nathan's done a great job on this. I'd love to hire him. Circuit design, soldering, graphic design, firmware and even a
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by gridspy 13y ago
Yes, but isn't the sidewalk public property? Did you ever walk up someone's driveway and scribble on their house?
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by gridspy 13y ago
It can leave you exposed if you're ever forced to pay it back by the government. If the timing is wrong it might be hard to raise the money.
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by gridspy 14y ago
That is truly awesome! Thanks for sharing. Quote from the linked article: " The system works by using the keywords to access one of the available code search engines (or a local code search engine for code available at Brown), to get candid
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by gridspy 14y ago
Often perfectionism in one area is a means to avoid shlep in another. For instance I prefer developing software over marketing my product ( http://gridspy.co.nz ). This means that perfecting our product's software is the comfortable and e
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by gridspy 14y ago
I think this is to avoid that split-second when hard walls would create a concussive shock. That shock would make the door ring like a bell and emit a very loud noise that might deafen the ground crew in their secure room.
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by gridspy 14y ago
The Rubber Room is intended for critical ground crews. The zip line is intended for astronauts. This is mentioned in the piece as the zip-line is the safer option when you're at the top of the tower and the base of the rocket is on fire.
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by gridspy 14y ago
Apple and Microsoft were both making money before they had spent $80k. Apple was selling hobbiest boards, Microsoft the license to DOS. You don't have to build a whole company, just find a market and become sustainable.
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by gridspy 14y ago
Bear in mind that none of these DNS queries are ever sent out of CloudFlare's network - as mentioned in the previous blog entry, none of these incoming responses are valid. See http://blog.cloudflare.com/65gbps-ddos-no-problem " What's gr
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by gridspy 14y ago
Nice. Is there a level for "Skimmed the first part of the post and then went back to working on his/her startup" ?
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by gridspy 14y ago
Are you saying that Patents prevent fair competition? Isn't that the point of patents?
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by gridspy 14y ago
That is a common misconception. Actually patents were an adaptation of an existing system where royalty would give monopolies away to companies they liked. No-one did any scientific tests at the time to ensure that they were a good idea in

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