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by thruflo 13y ago
This looks excellent. We've been crowdfunding an open feature roadmap on WikiHouse.cc and, internally, have been very concerned to build credibility by shipping the funded features before asking for more funds - especially because, wit
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by thruflo 13y ago
> We don’t think it’s a universally reasonable suggestion to write “small apps” in a “small framework” and “big apps” in a “big framework”. You can’t really know to what size every application will eventually grow. We don’t really want t
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by thruflo 13y ago
Same might apply to an overloaded api / anything not serving html pages to browsers. Heroku provides log-runtime-metrics, which includes current cpu load / pending cpu tasks. The librato addon also shows request throughput in its
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by thruflo 13y ago
I'm minded to prototype in angular but I'd rather use a generic data backend like firebase (or roll my own any-path-works rest api using dataset) than mock http calls.
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by thruflo 13y ago
Ah yes sorry, meant fabhub.io. Ironic to get the address wrong as its my site. Belated disclaimer. For outsourcing, alibaba.com and mfg.com are the big ones. Starting onshore / digital may be good for short run & prototyping. Trade
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by thruflo 13y ago
Makersrow.com custommade.com fabhub.com
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by thruflo 13y ago
So, how do you find good Indian coders?
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by thruflo 13y ago
One summer, a few years ago, a friend and I flew from New York to Iceland. After a jet lagged snooze, we ventured out into Reykjavik town centre around 10am on Saturday morning -- to find the streets completely deserted. Made sense later on
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by thruflo 13y ago
Looking at the source[1] `find` supports `==` and `in_()`. Beyond that, it supports custom sql queries[2]. For more power, drop down to SQLAlchemy. [1]: https://github.com/pudo/dataset/blob/dc144a27b01ff404a52
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by thruflo 13y ago
> Consumer hardware product development just doesn't align with this kind of thinking. Doesn't or didn't used to?
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by thruflo 13y ago
That is the incidental value in the system. You get to see what people think you do for a living.
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by thruflo 13y ago
Hi James, I agree with the substance of your analysis on OpenDesk. I don't accept its extension to the WikiHouse project. On OpenDesk, our aim has been to let people cut and customise the designs themselves. We weren't aware (befo
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by thruflo 13y ago
Fair enough -- thanks for the reference. On this point their rationale[1] is: > to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it. U
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by thruflo 13y ago
We're actively building the OpenDesk maker network, specifically looking for pro CNC makers with finishing capacity (sanding, oiling, etc). See the info on the https://www.opendesk.cc/contact page. (Plus we'll be
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by thruflo 13y ago
That's an interesting suggestion and an interesting distinction -- thank you. I agree that any and all license restrictions stifle innovation / building on each other's work. I also think it would be nice to limit the applic
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by thruflo 13y ago
Thanks for such an insightful and supportive comment :) I think you're right that the free design / pay to get made model does to some degree undervalue the design. It only really fitted for us because we a) had the designs and b
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by thruflo 13y ago
Our license is here: https://www.opendesk.cc/license -- it is CC Attribution-Non-Commercial (we dropped the Share Alike as an unnecessary restriction). Our intent is to allow anyone to download, adapt and make the designs f
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by thruflo 13y ago
Hey, we're working on this with http://www.madeonjupiter.com/ -- see the parameterised OpenDesk design walkthrough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-ubblgDmc With SpokeCreator and similar tools, it is
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by thruflo 13y ago
OD dev here. Check out our sister project http://wikihouse.cc -- an open source construction set for CNC printed houses.
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by thruflo 13y ago
OpenDesk dev here. Just spotted this thread and that the traffic had caused the site to fall over. I've removed some web service calls and allocated some more hosting resources. Fingers crossed this will keep it up -- it's runni
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Hierarchic Democracy and the Necessity of Mass Civil Disobedience (ucl.ac.uk)
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by thruflo 13y ago
Because my repo is clean whilst my working folder is messy.
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Inside the Distributed Manufacturing REPL(thruflo.com)
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by thruflo 13y ago
If you "care about sharing improvements" then choose a license to maximise contributions. The GPL imposes major headaches / restrictions on potential adopters. This reduces uptake, which reduces contributions, thereby reducin
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by thruflo 13y ago
The article moves away from its interesting proposition to just restate something bland about keeping scopes tight. We can't build software as fast as we can think because we don't have the tools. What those tools should be is an interestin
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by thruflo 13y ago
Choosing a university degree to maximise your salary is a counter productive waste of opportunity. Become a generalist where command line foo is your super power, not your day job. People hire to get stuff done. They have zero interest in y
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Print your own house(wikihouse.cc)
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by thruflo 13y ago
Or enable availability monitoring with the (free) newrelic addon.
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by thruflo 13y ago
Might be useful to serve that page over https so the .onion address it contains can't be changed by a man in the middle.
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by thruflo 13y ago
The title "Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To Work For You" resonates with me more than the post. I expected an article ridiculing the expectations of agency execs with nonsense comms projects, i.e.: that addresses the spuriou

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