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by supergeek133 6y ago
Reading a bit deeper into this... the real big difference to me is "context". If you want someone to critically think, they have to have business context and in many cases a vested interest in what they're building. This crop
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by supergeek133 6y ago
This is because your device is either required to have a MFI chip in it, or you have a common device already in the home with a MFI chip that it can communicate with. My company was one of the first to have a HomeKit thermostat, and the big
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by supergeek133 6y ago
This is becoming an issue on PC as well. The new Call of Duty Modern Warfare + Warzone takes up over 256GB of an SSD.
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I completely agree. We're better off as everyone mixes, otherwise you do end up with the situation like we're talking about "Oh God those blue people from CA are moving here and are coming to change our state". But, like
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by supergeek133 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see what happens as more valley companies go remote (if they do). The cost of living is still outrageous in CA, even after some areas going down as much as 30%. I've also been seeing more and more interview
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Running a platform costs money, many IoT products turn cost negative quickly if you don't introduce some type of value added service/ongoing revenue. That being said I've always been a huge proponent of allowing some type of
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Homekit devices also require a mFI chip to participate in HomeKit (or develop software to connect to another device in the home with mFI chip).
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What's the sales of Raspberry Pi versus something like a connected camera (Nest cam, dropcam, etc). "Popular" is relative.
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Yes my argument was business and ease for the customer, not what this is.
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The ""you need to upload all your data to our servers or you'll likely have to get another to TV to view it"" argument was involving the typical 8-camera wired DVR systems you commonly see in restaurants and in some
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by supergeek133 6y ago
I work for a residential IoT company. The issue with remote access is you need a service in the middle to provide that remote access, and provide it securely. Otherwise you're just talking something in the home (BLE, etc). If you don&#
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There is also another important factor... mutual respect. To be stereotypical, I'd go ahead and assume that a majority of people on HN work in tech and likely are paid a decent salary. The one thing I find in bad leaders (remote or oth
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by supergeek133 6y ago
I feel like it was also a classic case of running before we could crawl. Jumping from A to Z before we could go from 0 to 1. I work at an Residential IoT company, there are quite a few really valid use cases for Big Data and even ML. (Think
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It may be because there are enough consistent deliveries in the area to employ someone dedicated to delivery there.
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OK I see what you're getting at. But yea my concern has always been with the "existing" investment. So say I'm Comcast and I've invested $X millions into laying infrastructure, it seems "unfair" to me to j
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Sure, this is another thing, but I just keep going back to all the trouble Google Fiber had to make them stop.
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This is a little bit of my ignorance to public works and how much these companies invest in infrastructure. Please correct me. But the way I understand it, the ISP pays for right of way access to the city/county/state to put in in
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Pick whatever gender and/or race you like. That's just the most commonly used example. My point is just as in there have been and are people that are willfully malicious and ONLY hire white men/women, it seems we have a hard
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Honest question I could probably google or something, but what are some "black women dominated fields"?
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IBM should try, everyone should try. But on the same side people just can't believe that the middle management and/or line level people responsible for some of these decisions are being malicious.
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But that's the whole issue. Policy versus practice. I'm usually hard pressed to find people who disagree with the thought of "we should try to hire people other than white men in a white men dominated profession". The is
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That's fair enough, but that's not a fair indictment on virtual education (per the headline). The premise stinks.
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I understand dealing with children, I'm not being dismissive (at least I don't think I am) of that. I'm confused why this was written or published. There is no "point". Yes, it's very hard to keep adults much l
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Yeah, I'm really missing the message here.
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I read it and ended being not sure what it was about. Unless you're going to end with a stance of "but we'll get through it because of COIVD" or "we should go back to school no matter what" I'm a little lo
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That's been the case with or without school.
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Yeah, I read it and ended being not sure what it was about. Unless you're going to end with a stance of "but we'll get through it because of COIVD" or "we should go back to school no matter what" I'm a lit
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I agree with you. I have friends/family close but we're all honoring quarantine pretty well. I have a lake place I can go to on the weekends but generally speaking I find myself "losing routine" during the week. I rather
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I'm still amazed the fight seems to be "everyone works from home" or "everyone works from the office". I've been fairly productive since we all started full-time from home in March. However I prefer working at
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Yeah, of course you're going to have a majority bucket of calls. The issue is when it goes above and beyond that. There isn't critical thinking. - This customer called 3 times in the past two days and we told them to reboot their

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