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by sammachin 3y ago
The problem is there’s no way to truely publish OSS on the iOS App Store (or Play store) you submit a binary to Apple and you can publish a repo to GitHub but AFAIK there’s no way to correlate that those two things are the same. So unless y
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by sammachin 4y ago
We’ve had this in the U.K. for nearly 2 years now. https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/tesla-energy-plan As a result my annual electricity bill is pretty close to net zero, previously it was £3k & that’s before the prices
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by sammachin 4y ago
I’m wondering where the code ‘runs’ is it in the browser or on the cloud. For example if I have an app that connects to MQTT can I connect to a private broker inside my network
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by sammachin 6y ago
Its certainly a lot harder to hire someone in a country that you don't have a presence in, usually this means setting up things like employer tax arrangements, pensions, health benifits etc. Some companies get around this by having the
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by sammachin 7y ago
Looking at it from the original buyers perspective, When they sold/traded in their used Model S to Tesla did the price they get take into account the self drive feature, or do Tesla pay the same trade in regardless of software feature
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by sammachin 7y ago
Just use payphones
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Show HN: Echo Show – RaspberryPi Security Camera(sammachin.com)
54 points by sammachin 9y ago|22 comments
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by sammachin 11y ago
Actually the kickstarter did ship hence why I had my hands on one (well two actually) to do this hack. I backed the kickstarter back in May 2015. The June2016 date is for orders placed on their store today which I think is the earliest they
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by sammachin 11y ago
I totally agree, hence my comments about artistic license in the title! One of the issues right now is that people kinda assume that Echo and Alexa are the same thing hopefully as more 3rd party devices come to market using Alexa the diffe
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by sammachin 11y ago
Yeah I just need to strip out the auth keys etc. and rebase it before i make it public. I'll try and get it posted this week sometime, check back on weds.
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by sammachin 11y ago
Can't quite remember what I paid for shipping, taxes etc but I just tried adding one to my cart and it was only $6.22 shipping to the UK now.
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by sammachin 11y ago
Thanks for all the upvotes folks, I should clarify that there is a bit of artistic license on the title calling this a $10 Echo, there are 2 caveats; Its only about $10 the CHIP is a "$9 Computer" plus tax & shipping etc. and
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Accessing Amazon Alexa via the browser(sammachin.com)
27 points by sammachin 11y ago|2 comments
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by sammachin 14y ago
Firstly great story and very entertaining :-) Certainly i would have used it on the application as it makes you stand out and gives the interviewers something interesting to ask about, thats what application forms are for after all. When it