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by hershel 13y ago
I think i missed something. I just looked at the book "from concept to consumer" and they give an example of a real product that sold at retail for $50(went to retailer through a distributor) while the manufacturer got only $19 ,i
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by hershel 13y ago
35% is half of what's left after cost of components. i consider 51%(35%+) as most.
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by hershel 13y ago
Instant messaging has some interesting research[1] as a solution for solving the communication/interruption conflict: " Analysis of these data indicates that IM use has no influence on overall levels of work communication. However
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by hershel 13y ago
AFAIK, motorola does make a small profit over the moto-g.They're not subsidizing it. And online only without marketing can offer 35%+ decrease in price, which fits my comment.
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by hershel 13y ago
Business wise, one interesting thing about the G is that it's launched online-only only(or online mostly) ,without big investment in marketing(since the product is so good it markets itself).Those savings are a big part why it's s
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by hershel 13y ago
Usually the scripting part is relatively small, i believe. How much percent of writing such a tool would be in python ?
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by hershel 13y ago
The most realistic case of something close to this scenario happening, is that virtual reality will greatly improve and people will prefer to mostly live there. And in virtual reality ,marginal cost does go to zero.
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by hershel 13y ago
The problem with healthcare is 1. Politics that prevent innovation, i.e. regulation. 2. Disruptive innovations, i.e. innovations that trade quality for cost have negative view by consumers relative to other industries. Change those ,and tom
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by hershel 13y ago
OK, you don't like inkscape. but why rule out python? it's faster to code than c++ and more important, it will be far easier to get code contributors(and probably kickstarter support ).
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by hershel 13y ago
I wonder, if the goal was to build a hacker friendly PCB tool: written in python[1], easy to develop for(via extensions), open etc. What would be the amount of work needed to get to a basic version ? could that be supported by a kickstarte
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by hershel 13y ago
The part rank is a very good idea. Is there a place we see part rank before starting a design ?
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by hershel 13y ago
The main problem with crowdfunding is prevention of scams. The SEC which is responsible for implementing this bill,have an expensive list of demands(papers, lawyers) for companies wanting to go that route, making the whole process not worth
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by hershel 13y ago
The question is: do you need to be someone with the size/capabilities of Google to compete in this market, or there are many companies that can make that "commodity" ? Because if the answer is the first one, this looks like a
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by hershel 13y ago
3d printed women's shoes are here today: http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/02/cubify-launches-free-to-dow... The printer costs around $3K.
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by hershel 13y ago
a bitcoin miner isn't a isn't a general processing unit.It does something specific that's very very easy to optimize and implement, and you don't use latest manufacturing process but tools like easic , hence the small i
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by hershel 13y ago
It's not cheap. If you want to compete wit cpu/fpga/gpu ,you'll need to use the latest manufacturing processes and do complex designs,and now we're talking about more than 100 million USD investment.
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by hershel 13y ago
Yes moore's law is in deep troubles, but there are few paths for innovation in that area: bus speeds, imprecise but faster and lower power computation(which works for some things), much more efficient ways to build on chip memory(which
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by hershel 13y ago
In general GPU's are same or better in floating points per given area of silicon. on top of that , FPGA's add other expenses due to lower market size. Maybe FPGA's are competitive in integer math, but that's a pretty sma
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by hershel 13y ago
The interesting thing to do is to look at the progression. Project spark is a huge improvement over little big planet 1 both in graphics and game variety , and maybe programming model/power. Why won't this kind of improvement con
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by hershel 13y ago
It's not out of line of their current rate. In 2013 they had 56 new deals and 81 total investments[1]. Over a few years that could cover 1.5B. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/02/04/500-st
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by hershel 13y ago
There's rumors microsoft is working on VR. They also have an amazing 3d game creation platform for beginners called "project spark", very good at building developer communities a and would be happy to sell more PC's. Ass
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by hershel 13y ago
Sony has one major disadvantage: they are tied up to the ps4 while PC's which are more powerful/upgradable are a better fit for VR. There's rumors microsoft is working on VR. They also have an amazing 3d game creation platfor
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Finding the cause for bee disease using arduino(blog.arduino.cc)
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by hershel 13y ago
Microsoft's project spark looks like that kind platform.
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by hershel 13y ago
This looks pretty similar to the parallela, with better price, nicer software support and better manufacturing horizon. Oh well, that was somewhat predictable: parallela competed with nvidia in something that nvidia cared about and could ex
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by hershel 13y ago
You can use hola against cencorship.From reading a bit around the web, it seems that most of the time it does work in china, the country with the most advanced censorship tech.
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by hershel 13y ago
I think hola.org would be a good recommendation - it's a free p2p proxy service. I used it to watch hulu and it worked quite well with a simple UI.
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by hershel 13y ago
a. There's this work is robotics[1]: You specify at a very high level the required robot behavior.The system analyzes it and if it find contradictions or things that are not fully specified it points you to them. After solving the issu
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by hershel 13y ago
Is it common for chinese citizens to do this , or is it only done by some tech guys ?
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by hershel 13y ago
Have a look at circuits.io. It's a platform for collaboration and sharing of complete design: schematics + pcb's a modules, with plenty of shared modules.

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