gridspy

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901.
by gridspy 17y ago
In most cases, your job is to execute tasks. Your managers job is to prioritise / filter them. Put your manager between you and any unwanted feature requests.
902.
by gridspy 17y ago
If only the security organisations of the world could share your attitude.
903.
by gridspy 17y ago
This really should have a better title, like Beautiful geometry Proofs
904.
by gridspy 17y ago
You should use GridSpy for the power monitoring ;) How much did the power monitoring cost? Also, the background on the graph makes it practically unreadable. You should consider bright lines on a black background.
905.
by gridspy 17y ago
Congratulations to all those who made it to the interview.
906.
by gridspy 17y ago
Everyone can see that my post is just an anecdote. My point wasn't so much that seatbelts save lives as much as "you too might be in a crash through no fault of your own." Note, that is also obvious from statistics, but perhaps not intuitiv
907.
by gridspy 17y ago
I am also interested only in the ordering of comments within a given discussion thread. The number of points that my user account gets does not matter to me. Same with my submissions - I only care about up-votes there because I want more pe
908.
by gridspy 17y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. It did foster some interesting discussion though, which is what I really wanted. I thought perhaps there might be some early adopters here interested in the data and how they could use it. There are easy ways to meet
909.
by gridspy 17y ago
Simply the funniest comment I have ever read on HN! Perhaps they are used to their father's peculiar ways. Perhaps he has telekinesis and vivid daydreams.
910.
by gridspy 17y ago
One day I was turning across traffic on a green arrow. One second I was driving straight, the next second I was in a crazy spinning rollercoaster. All I could feel was disorientation, spinning and the seatbelt clutching me tight. When the c
911.
by gridspy 17y ago
Or to put it another way, could you catch your child if they had fallen 50m (about 7 storeys)? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+50m At the end of that fall, they would be travelling 70mph, as fast as they are travelling in a car.
912.
by gridspy 17y ago
$50 with no recurring revenue is well covered by lots of cheap, simple, inaccurate meters. See http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitorin... As a price example, here is a direct competitor: http://www.luciddesigngroup.c
913.
by gridspy 17y ago
Wow. Thanks for the through reply. The price is high, as you mention - once we have an established cashflow with industrial clients and proven technology it will be possible to gradually migrate into the much more cost sensitive residential
914.
by gridspy 17y ago
Because most employees are lazy when it comes to power conservation. They will install a GridSpy solution and discover that everyone is leaving computers and lights on all night. Then they send an email around saying "please turn off your c
915.
by gridspy 17y ago
My blog http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/ is never going to turn a profit. Hopefully it does attract more eyes to my other ventures, such as http://gridspy.co.nz/
916.
by gridspy 17y ago
That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that if you create free, popular, useful content you can't help but make money from the word of mouth it generates.
917.
by gridspy 17y ago
This is exactly my point. The free content becomes a personal marketing vehicle - usually an extremely valuable one. You don't have to charge directly for the content to unlock this value.
918.
by gridspy 17y ago
Paul Graham made is essays for free. As a result he has a loyal following of hackers. Long after his essays were popular, he started tapping into that following with YC. Joel Spolsky had a popular programming blog. He mentions a site that h
919.
by gridspy 17y ago
Andrew has made it clear in his post about paywalling that making money from it isn't necessary. He has had a large exit in the past and is financially free.
920.
by gridspy 17y ago
Wow! Patents foster innovation again! You'll get sued anyway, relevant patent or not. Just give it a shot if you can.
921.
by gridspy 17y ago
I read that Simulations show only 20% of cars need to have automated radar speed control to help make freeways free-flowing. You just need to sprinkle smart cars liberally and everyone benefits.
922.
by gridspy 17y ago
Coke vs Pepsi? Patents and copyrights on the secret formula that makes it taste non-crap. But the rest of your points stand.
923.
by gridspy 17y ago
Also, you could clone their site, but you couldn't clone the underlying understanding required to better it.
924.
by gridspy 17y ago
I think that you could find many more surprising power sinks in a large business than in a home - in a house you know exactly what you have purchased. In an office, there are so many people involved it is practically unknowable without moni
925.
by gridspy 17y ago
Either that or you would still be developing, perhaps even given up and gone home
926.
by gridspy 17y ago
Cheers for your points. Greenies and huge power hogs only I guess :)
927.
by gridspy 17y ago
Thanks for your honesty. I hope that people who have $10,000 per month power bills can see the benefit of localising their power usage to a faulty air conditioning system or inefficient lighting. Our price won't be suitable for homeowners u
928.
by gridspy 17y ago
Your point about Green cred and imbedded graphs is also where I see a major future selling point for our system. Interesting point about not wanting to see power usage online. Fair enough.
929.
by gridspy 17y ago
Yes, Gridspy won't be convincing until it pays for itself inside a year. For a residential user, that means we need high volume manufacture to reduce prices first.
930.
by gridspy 17y ago
Yeah, I think that Business customers are the a major potential market.

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