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by jbms 7y ago
Navigation is about how you've structured things as team/company. Perhaps creating additional directory pages would help to get different views on all the pages/data in the system? Speed: Does the server have enough RAM? Is i
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by jbms 7y ago
Identify when you're solving a problem that isn't a one off. Solve it in a way that also works for the other situations you expect it is needed (i.e. make absolutely everything that's unique to this first implementation a con
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by jbms 8y ago
Lead Acid batteries are extremely recyclable. Li-Ion batteries aren't setup for it yet but that'll come, however in the future many grid batteries are second-life (e.g. former automotive batteries that don't hold their full c
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by jbms 8y ago
Lots of companies are building constellations of small satellites and advertising how their imagery can be used for agricultural purposes. Assuming this stuff needs the sky to grow well and can't be grown under tree cover then changes
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by jbms 8y ago
I (UK, aged 27 at the time) hired a contractor who was aged 73. We needed someone with a variety of experience to help us through a particular need, and a recruiter found him for us. He was brilliant: He knew a lot, did a lot, and still wan
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by jbms 8y ago
It's recognised that money doesn't change you but it amplifies who you are. I've realised intelligence or ability is the same - it amplifies what you can do but doesn't itself change you. Living in Scotland, vitamin D da
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by jbms 8y ago
It is bashing religion to imply the people who believe in it are primarily trying to escape reality. They believe they've discovered reality. And they'd like to be with other people who have also discovered reality.
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by jbms 8y ago
You get clearer communication from the car in front of its actions and intentions, in an intuitive way. This assists traffic flow and might enhance safety.
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by jbms 8y ago
I'd like to see more variable brake lights to go with this: i.e. a strip of light across the rear of the vehicle, that progressively lights up according to how hard the vehicle is braking (or anticipates braking, if it's autonomou
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by jbms 8y ago
Cheaper launches gives defence new use cases too. They'll start to launch smaller satellites into more orbits. It'll take time to change their processes, but they'll be launching small/cube/chip sats with all sorts
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Ask HN: Why does Google Pay insist on getting so many Permissions on Android?
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by jbms 9y ago
Get a thick foam mat. I got one designed for standing on when working in a garage and it makes a big difference. Cost about $10.
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by jbms 9y ago
Yes. If they're used as an analysis/design tool and not as a documentation-after-the-code-is-written tool, with tools that generate code from the diagrams, they are really powerful. I work in Embedded Software and mainly use: Use
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by jbms 9y ago
Yes, but the voltage needs boosted up to 300 or 400V, so there's still a DC-DC conversion step + control to ensure the correct current at each range.
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by jbms 9y ago
It's in the power conversion. Go educate yourself on the efficiency of power supplies: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143029-empowered-can-hig... Over 90% is amazing.
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by jbms 9y ago
It's full system efficiency, not just the wireless charging.
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by jbms 9y ago
A startup in Scotland lets disabled users press the cross button by tapping an app on their phone. Conceivably the app could tell from movement whether the person was crossed before communicating it's safe to let cars go again. https:
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by jbms 9y ago
Delta Group / Delta Electronics Europe Ltd | Embedded Software Engineer | East Kilbride, Scotland, UK| | Full-time, ONSITE | www.deltaww.com We develop battery chargers up to 30 kW for industrial customers. Our products are listed her
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by jbms 9y ago
93% efficiency at 1kW and 30kW wireless power delivery (from AC plug to vehicle, not 93% only for the transmission): http://www.deltaenergysystems.com/en/Wireless-Charging-Syste... This is very close to systems that ar
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by jbms 9y ago
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Drucker-Druckers-Management...
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by jbms 9y ago
Regarding food safety, the UK's Food Standard's Agency has a category that specifically deals with food prepared in homes and sold to the public: https://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/food-hygiene/mov
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by jbms 9y ago
It could be coincidence where the situation happening and being discussed keeps it in your consciousness and caused you to notice the advert. If the ad played 2 months and 1 day ago would you be freaked out that YouTube predicted the future
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by jbms 9y ago
Recovering perfectionist here. Refocus your perfectionism on doing the most valuable job for the business, from a business sense. For me, that means doing half a dozen different job roles (Project management of multiple projects, SW archit
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by jbms 9y ago
Find the HR person on LinkedIn, or senior technical person. Phone the company and ask to be put through to them. Explain to them you've applied, and you've not heard back, but you're interested. You're a person then, not
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by jbms 10y ago
I recommend making a web form using Google spreadsheets - which takes 3 minutes, and making the spreadsheet read-only. When I last posted an open spreadsheet to hacker news it grew, then got defaced with all the data deleted. Someone restor
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by jbms 10y ago
Those look pretty bad to someone outside London. How much travel on top of that?
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by jbms 10y ago
Matlab/Simulink. Brilliant tool, and lots of brainpower and money being invested in continuously developing it.
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by jbms 10y ago
I intend to, but I don't have a copy yet :-).
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by jbms 10y ago
The point is to raise awareness of a basic tool that tracks Scotland's tech industry. That is of interest to lots of people. Potential uses of the tool itself: - Helping people find potential job opportunities in Scotland - Helping tec
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by jbms 10y ago
Any suggestions for ones that are easy and free to setup?

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