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by roland35 6y ago
Having heavy regulations almost helps in some cases because it both discourages low level copycats and also protects you to a degree - if someone sues you can say "I followed all the compliance standards!". And hopefully you have
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by roland35 6y ago
I am thinking of starting a hardware product based company, and the thing that worries me the most is liability since the US is so litigious If your product is so easily copied, unfortunately it will be copied. It isn't a good thing b
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by roland35 6y ago
Flame retardants (or flame-resistant fabrics) are also used in children's pajamas which is a little more concerning to me as a parent than whatever is on the couch. Luckily there are a lot of cotton snug fitting pajamas out there as a
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by roland35 6y ago
I have followed a similar vim path, although my vimrc file never was close to 1,000 lines long! I used to use many plugins though including nerdtree, airline, and surround. But in the end it was always difficult to maintain that setup lon
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CEOs want to ditch sterile zoom calls(npr.org)
3 points by roland35 6y ago|2 comments
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by roland35 6y ago
Check out hackaday.com, there are lots of great examples of all sorts of hardware projects on there! Some are definitely similar to the level of functionality you are looking at.
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by roland35 6y ago
Yeah my kid is around the same age as the OP (kindergarten) and seems like he will be interested in coding some day, but just isn't there quite yet! I didn't get into coding until much later, probably 11-13 like you said, and it
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by roland35 6y ago
I recommend django, especially if you know python. There are some guides on hosting it with something like pythonanywhere or Heroku and you're set!
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by roland35 6y ago
Once again the Onion predicted reality! https://www.theonion.com/more-office-workers-switching-to-fe...
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by roland35 6y ago
I agree with this, the best parts of the cloud is abstracting away a lot of the basic maintenance of these applications. There is lock in to some platform no matter what you do, but hopefully you can design your application so that if you d
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by roland35 6y ago
AWS SNS doesn't support FIFO queues, but SQS does. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
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by roland35 6y ago
No they were normal off the shelf cards, but they were soldered directly on to the PCB and everything was vacuum potted.
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by roland35 6y ago
Other features my web app had was keeping track of individual parts, because our ERP system was focused mainly on manufacturing and design, not management. Parts could be assembled into assemblies so we could track what revisions were on w
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of hardware prototypes?
2 points by roland35 6y ago|2 comments
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by roland35 6y ago
Yeah I agree about sd card reliability concerns. The funny thing is that I've used as cards as data storage inside gun launched munitions (Howitzers!) And they survived 10,000 G of acceleration, but too many writes is a problem! I use
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by roland35 6y ago
I've heard this from my father (US tax accountant) but it is reflected in the current news - the US tax system favors ownership. Own your own house, own your own business, use profits to invest - these are all things to reduce your ta
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Ask HN: How can robotics be used to create a compelling game?
1 points by roland35 6y ago|0 comments
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by roland35 6y ago
My raspberry pi 4 has been running as a home server and gitlab runner under my tv stand for a few months now and works great! I just need to set up a backup scheme at some point since the whole thing runs on an sd card. It seems easier than
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by roland35 6y ago
I absolutely love oral histories of music - and Prince was an especially _interesting_ guy and incredible musician. Prince absolutely tore it up in the George Harrison tribute song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K
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by roland35 6y ago
I partially agree with the author, I think unit tests are great to ensure functions and methods are working correctly, and they have saved me a few times! However, here is my perspective from a hardware point of view: I think teams can be
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by roland35 6y ago
I like the Expanse series, but Mars is only a part of those books. I tried to get into Red Mars but I found it a little too dry for me, but I think if you're a fan of "hard sci fi" with realistic ideas of how people would li
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by roland35 6y ago
In wheel motors have high unsprung mass, which has negative effects on the performance of the vehicle and ability of the suspension system to keep the wheels on the road in particular. It is difficult to actively cool a motor in the wheel
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by roland35 6y ago
The only notifications I use on my computer are meeting reminders, otherwise I would forget 90% of them!
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by roland35 6y ago
I have been using fusion 360 as a hobbiest for a few years now, and this is certainly disappointing to see but unfortunately not surprising. I am not a fan of having online based file management either, but that is how a lot of these tools
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by roland35 6y ago
I like the idea of being realistic with a timeline and start with a 3 year goal. I think the most important part of getting quick feedback for me is setting up my environment for tiny iterations (for a web dev side project), but the balanc
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by roland35 6y ago
There may be a lot of embedded systems affected though! Most embedded C uses 32 bit integers, especially for the Real Time Clock peripherals!
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by roland35 6y ago
How exciting! 1500000000 occured on 07/14/2017 @ 2:40am (UTC), so it seems we'll have to only wait about 3 years until the next one!
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by roland35 6y ago
I've seen this happen in the office too after some stressful or particularly frustrating events at the office! Everyone has a "meeting" scheduled in the unused old conference room in the basement with beverages provided...
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by roland35 6y ago
In the 7 habits of highly effective people book, this concept is nicely illustrated by a 2x2 grid with the axes "urgency" and "importance". There are a lot of urgent but unimportant tasks such as emails or letters in Nap
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by roland35 6y ago
I think the colors look nice in these visualizations, but I do believe it is possible to drift so far in making visualizations pretty to the detriment of being clear! First of all, one advantage of highly distinct colors which is discourage

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