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by thejo 14y ago
You can disable the crash alert feature if you don't want it.
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by thejo 14y ago
That's right!
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by thejo 14y ago
The Automatic Link supports both Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth Classic, so it will work with many Android phones that don't support BT 4.0 too.
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by thejo 14y ago
Automatic is designed to work with multiple drivers. So yes, you can share a car with your wife and both of you can use Automatic. A tethering plan is not required. The Automatic Link communicates with your iPhone over Bluetooth and uses yo
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by thejo 14y ago
hi dlokshin, we support the iPhone 4S and 5 because those are the only models that support Bluetooth 4.0. I'm sure we can theoretically support every Android phone out there, but as a small team, we'd rather focus on a smaller set and provi
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by thejo 14y ago
We'd love to build an API. It's on a long list of things we want to build. The Automatic Link supports OTA updates (through the phone). So, our users can expect improvements. In fact, we think of ourselves as a software company. We built a
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by thejo 14y ago
We're paranoid about not running your car's battery down. When the ignition is off, we consume less than 1 mA. By itself, the Automatic Link would take 3-4 years to drain even a cheap battery.
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by thejo 14y ago
Hey isalmon, fuel efficiency is not related to the speed limit. We just use that as a frame of reference. The actual numbers are that fuel efficiency drops by 12-15% for every 10 mph above 50 mph. Here's an article which talks about that -
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Automatic - Your car and smartphone, connected (YC S11)(automatic.com)
17 points by thejo 14y ago|1 comments
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YC S11 startup looking for embedded software / hardware engineer
1 points by thejo 14y ago
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CRAPL - Open source license for academic software(matt.might.net)
8 points by thejo 15y ago|1 comments
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(YC S11) UX-Focused Startup Looking for a Talented Visual/UI Designer
1 points by thejo 15y ago
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by thejo 15y ago
Congrats guys! This team has been studying crowdsourcing for a long time and this startup is a product of everything they have learned.
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by thejo 16y ago
David Cohen of TechStars has written a good post about this - http://www.davidgcohen.com/2010/06/18/you-have-acquisition-i...
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by thejo 16y ago
The concept of having to reinvent stuff because we lost all of the tacit knowledge associated with it is very interesting. Donald MacKenzie wrote about this in the context of nuclear weapons - Tacit knowledge and the uninvention of nuclear
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Facebook Testing Places Powered Deals Service(allfacebook.com)
2 points by thejo 16y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 16y ago
NSFW is the name of the weekly column by Paul Carr.
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by thejo 16y ago
Social pressure is pretty much what micro-finance depends on to ensure repayment.
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Truth Lies Here(theatlantic.com)
1 points by thejo 16y ago|0 comments
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The Vanishing Line Between Books And Internet(forbes.com)
2 points by thejo 16y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 16y ago
>> I'm really skeptical of this new fashion of claiming that the US's worst problem is that our standards of healthcare are too damn high. I don't think anyone is advocating lowering of standards. The Aravind Eye Care and similar su
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by thejo 16y ago
For web applications, understanding the concept of state and managing it takes you a long way towards building a scalable system (on a related note, any time spent really understanding HTTP is time well spent). It's very useful to read book
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The iPhone 4 antenna and a lesson from history(thejo.in)
2 points by thejo 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users' precise locations(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
43 points by thejo 16y ago|21 comments
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by thejo 16y ago
Some hyperbole, but the general idea that employees are on the bench for a very long time is true. I spent the first year of my career at a large services company and saw a number of friends go through this. It may seem surprising that peop
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How I Got Famous on the Internetz - A video on ROFLcon(motherboard.tv)
3 points by thejo 16y ago|0 comments
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by thejo 16y ago
This paper is very popular / influential in the area of usable security. It's interesting to note that though it's possible to securely exchange e-mail, most people don't. I took a course offered by Prof. Tygar (co-author of the paper) last
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by thejo 16y ago
* How do you hear about the startups you invest in? (Introductions from people you trust?) * What is the one piece of advice you would give to people who pitch their startups to you? * How do you add value?
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by thejo 16y ago
Related: an excellent debate on the social responsibility of business featuring Milton Friedman, John Mackey and T.J Rodgers http://reason.com/archives/2005/10/01/rethinking-the-social-...
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Always Split Test (Even If You’re A Bum)(dailyconversions.com)
1 points by thejo 17y ago|0 comments

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