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by m-ee 6y ago
I joined a small startup headed by a former professor, financed by a mix of SBIR grants and seed funding, and he was really poorly suited to running a hardware company. The biggest gap was the ability to push for schedule and manufacturabil
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by m-ee 6y ago
It doesn’t matter if you think they’re doing something productive for China Apple or anyone else, and the idea that they could suddenly repurpose them to do “AI” is incredibly far fetched. My point is hundreds of thousands if not millions o
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by m-ee 6y ago
The factories are in China, but they're making parts for American or multinational companies. And the CMs themselves may or may not be Chinese. Foxconn is Taiwanese, Flextronics is legally Singaporean but headquartered in the US. Those
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by m-ee 6y ago
What would happen to China? Foxconn alone employs hundreds of thousands of people
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by m-ee 6y ago
The N Judah in SF is actually slower than it was 100 years ago. I lived on 12th ave and if I missed it I could usually beat it to the 9th and Irving stop and get on there.
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by m-ee 6y ago
One way streets encourage faster driving and make things less safe and welcoming for pedestrians. See the baffling Hayward loop as a worst case example. A highlight from the article “ Jones told the Pioneer that when he was newly hired as c
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by m-ee 6y ago
Capable C compilers have been around for a long time on PICs. I’ve only seen people using assembly for legacy systems that were already written that way. That said I wouldn’t use one for a new product. I think they could still have a place
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by m-ee 6y ago
I haven’t looked into the ultra cheap stuff in a while, are you talking about other 8 but mcus from major manufacturers or the ultra cheap no name alibaba stuff? PICs historically have good data sheets which is worth a non trivial amount of
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by m-ee 6y ago
I’m still not over the fact that notifications on my phone don’t clear when I view the message on my computer, and this is by design because of some other big fix. It’s been almost a year https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack&
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by m-ee 6y ago
I don't see a contradiction. The fund will be dedicated to companies founded by PoC, but with a specific focus African Americans and Latinos in the US because by most metrics those groups are more systemically disadvantaged than others
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by m-ee 6y ago
The article never claimed Softbank leadership was white nor that Asian's are not people of color
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by m-ee 6y ago
That sounds healthier for the org internally but I don’t think I’d ever take the job because of the risk of stunting my career growth. Harder to move up the ladder at my next job if I don’t have a decent title at my current one.
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by m-ee 6y ago
Restaurants don't always have the capacity to make delivery orders and may not want to deal with the logistics of impatient drivers coming in and demanding their food in the middle of a dinner rush. In some cases they've set up fa
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by m-ee 6y ago
These services will go out of their way to place orders against the restaurants will if they choose not to accept them. Even going as far as having employees call in phone orders while posing as regular customers.
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by m-ee 6y ago
Looking into it more it's less clear than I remembered. OPD considered scrapping it in 2014 saying the costs weren't justified and they'd rather have more money for their helicopter. Other cities have said they're not co
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by m-ee 6y ago
Oakland has shotspotter and my understanding is that it's been considered a failure
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by m-ee 6y ago
I ride, and know a lot of people who do, and the amount of injuries from road debris or cars turning left without looking dwarf the crashes from just going too fast. This might be regional though, most places don’t have Bay Area traffic.
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by m-ee 6y ago
Can only speak for the east bay but Minnie Bells in the Emeryville public market is my favorite. For a different flavor check out Abura ya in Oakland too
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by m-ee 6y ago
Not all jobs can be done from home, and it's not all or nothing. I work with hardware, just having one person be able to work alone in our lab would be a massive improvement as there's test equipment we couldn't move. I don&#
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by m-ee 7y ago
Health care workers are already reusing masks due to short supply
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by m-ee 7y ago
Could you elaborate on some of the obviously wrong stuff that you've seen? I'm curious. I have an ME background but strayed away from it into electronics, then oddly enough ended up in a fluids heavy business.
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by m-ee 7y ago
Take a look at the WiPy, its an ESP32 board setup for micropython
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by m-ee 7y ago
Open source projects like Arduino and the Pyboard have schematics available. If you want to learn about about why those components are there read the datasheets for the major ICs, the board designer will usually be following the manufacture
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by m-ee 7y ago
The bias of HN towards web dev is pretty funny sometimes. I'd definitely be very impressed if I received these business cards, it's more novel than other PCB business cards I've seen and took a lot more initiative and effort
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by m-ee 7y ago
I gave up and moved entirely to using the lockers when I order from amazon now. Curiously they still managed to lose a package between the last distribution center and their locker. But larger scale it made me doubt if their model of Uber s
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by m-ee 7y ago
I think you'd be a lot less impressed if you'd received any packages through their fulfillment services. Literally every single driver I've had has lied about attempting a delivery, usually multiple times, then flat out lied
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by m-ee 7y ago
We've made some pretty capable hardware at my job on top of the pyboard/micropython. We've outgrown it in certain cases but it's really powerful being able to build something for potential critical business needs (like o
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by m-ee 7y ago
Anyone in west Oakland or Alameda will actually have a fantastic commute, the new office is steps away from the ferry which is by far the best way to commute in the bay. They'll need to step up service though, earlier boats are already
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by m-ee 7y ago
Oddly enough cancellations have been much worse for me this year when trying to go from SF->Oakland. Most infuriating is when drivers come close enough to lie and say they're at the pickup spot (showing them my destination) then jus
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by m-ee 7y ago
Sidecar was the first service I remember that explicitly used the current UberX/Lyft business model when all these companies kicked off in SF. Back then your payment to your Lyft driver was still called a “donation” because it was orig

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