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by starky 7y ago
Myself as well. Something reminded me of the Jean Luc Picard song and it popped up in my search results which sent me checking out a few old ones.
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by starky 7y ago
The thing I don't understand about the Vancouver locations is that 4 years ago they closed down their massive store at Robson and Howe and opened a tiny little store at Granville and Robson a block away, then they go and shut that down
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by starky 7y ago
>In fact, over the air updates, which was one of the most amazing accomplishments and features of iOS has little design at all. It’s just smart engineering that works well. I disagree with your statement completely, a lack of interface i
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by starky 7y ago
Essentially, if you are a public company, you can't afford to spend resources on products that have a limited market when you have projects that you know will be successful to produce. You can only spend the occasional resource on what
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by starky 7y ago
940nm IREDs are not visible to the human eye but are visible to a CMOS sensor, so that would be pretty easy to rig up without being too noticeable. The main issue is that you would need a lot of them because most security cameras are filter
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by starky 8y ago
This post actually reminded me, I've been meaning to try out a meat delivery service that one of my city's local chefs runs (he does farm to table dining). They partner with local farms that treat their animals well and do weekly
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by starky 8y ago
Of course security guards aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Rather the new technology will make finding and acting on incidents quicker and more efficient. I can't see it being too difficult to identify tactics being used and ma
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by starky 8y ago
I started interviewing candidates (including senior level) about 3 years after starting there. Despite being one of the youngest people on the team, the management knew that I had a good grasp on what the people we are interviewing should k
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by starky 8y ago
For a few reasons: 1. There is an industry drive to make phones thinner, and one way to do that is to minimize the casing that a battery requires. 2. Waterproofing is a desirable feature, which is much harder to do when you have an accessib
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by starky 8y ago
Even easier, you can create a bookmark in your web browser to disable it for a specific amount of time. https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/81z8jp/temporarily_...
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by starky 8y ago
I could definitely see the applications when it comes to optics, even just considering the assembly of camera lenses could be improved or automated more with a process like this. Maybe it could be used for automated optical alignment to imp
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by starky 8y ago
I was mostly thinking about things like consumer electronics, tools, appliances, etc. when it comes to this. Items that have to be built by larger companies rather than ones that can be built at a more "craft" scale where the comp
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by starky 8y ago
I'm not so sure I point the finger at consumers entirely. We have been trained by marketing teams to desire the latest and greatest to keep up with those around us. Just look at the massive price increases for flagships in the smartpho
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by starky 8y ago
This is something that bothers me as well, though my reasons are slightly different. It feels that every new product that is released now is purely designed to drive new sales for some flashy feature that actually make the product worse and
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by starky 8y ago
Design Tools for "Everything", yet is missing all the most common design tools for device design. Where are SolidWorks, Creo, Altium, etc.?
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by starky 8y ago
Are these Nest products sold worldwide? I recently worked on a product that included a microphone as an integral feature and we were told that in order to sell it worldwide we had to include a physical disable switch for the microphone in o
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by starky 8y ago
Would you take that at half the salary as SF or even worse? Because salaries in Vancouver are super low compared to the major US tech hubs. Not to mention good luck finding anything decent quality with a 0.6% rental vacancy rate, competitio
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by starky 8y ago
>which was founded by some pretty technical people I've always gotten the impression that the people running Bolt are extremely inexperienced when it comes to the technical side. Their teardowns and articles are full of errors, or w
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by starky 8y ago
I disagree, what you can get in a inexpensive body these days is pretty crazy. Sony has been pushing the envelope pretty hard the past few years and been putting out some truly amazing cameras for unbelievable prices. The A6000 at $800 was
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by starky 8y ago
A good companion to this article is the one by Lensrentals where they actually show what happens when the lens is stopped down, particularly the effect on flare. https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2008/10/front-
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by starky 8y ago
We use different solder mask colours to differentiate different product variants that share a board outline. It is way easier to tell a factory to install the red board when making a specific product variant than to have them read a part nu
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by starky 8y ago
I've actually never looked into whether there are Kickstarter equivalents in China. It wouldn't surprise me if they were much more successful. Just knowing the business culture of the country makes you significantly more likely to
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by starky 8y ago
In China you have your main contact in sales, who this account manager was, but they are relatively limited in what they can do for you other than liaise between you and the other employees that may or may not speak English. Some of the tim
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by starky 8y ago
Most of these problems read as someone that didn't do their due diligence when it came to auditing the factory and getting all the required information about the business before engaging with them in business. As soon as there were any
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by starky 8y ago
As someone that uses JIRA for hardware development and hates it, this article really speaks to why it is such a pain point. There is often a lot of moving parts going on in a project, and there isn't much to put down until a task is do
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by starky 8y ago
That isn't what I said at all. You are conflating two separate statements there.
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by starky 8y ago
It is understandable why they would think this. I've had multiple people from Guangdong refer to the food from the North as spicy, even though Sichuan, Hunan, and Chongqing are considered central China. To most people Southern Chinese
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by starky 8y ago
Probably the two most useful courses I took period were electives as part of my business minor. Financial Accounting has been incredibly useful to understand how businesses operate and why they make many of the decisions they do. Not to men
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by starky 8y ago
Training isn't dead at all, most companies have co-op/internship programs for exactly this purpose. This greatly reduces the need for hiring junior employees since you already know if they are a good employee, and they are already
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by starky 8y ago
The CCP does a really good job at keeping (enough) of the populace happy so that there is little to no risk of unrest that could affect their power. A main pillar of this is the social benefits of having people employed in particular your p

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