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by veemjeem 14y ago
Most of the backers for the espresso machine project ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-controll... ) haven't received their rewards either, but we aren't up in arms ready to file a lawsuit either. I honestly don't see p
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Maybe he's not ready to fulfill the rewards yet. I don't see that as a reason to file a lawsuit. I backed the kickstarter PID espresso machine project almost a year ago and have yet to see my reward. They reached their funding goal befor
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I know that he'll also be present at the next Hack the Future event on January 13 where mentors get kids interested in tech. I just feel like people haven't seen an update in 2 months and are getting antsy enough to file a lawsuit, which i
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by veemjeem 14y ago
who knows, maybe they all use the identical motor, but there's a few solder bridges that prevent you from going as fast as the expensive models... cars that can be overclocked would be interesting.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Agreed. There are quite a few motorcycles that can get around 95 mpg. It would still cost around $18 for a full tank of gas in a motorcycle, but probably only $3 for a full tank in the tesla. If they based mpg on dollars spent per distan
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Wouldn't that be a bit too variable to estimate? If you charge your car during the day, it would cost a lot more than charging at night. I think in the bay area, it's around 5 cents per kWh in commercial zones during off-peak hours, so a
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by veemjeem 14y ago
To the general public, no, but in this case the product is similar to 4chan, so users may be confused. If Moot.It had sold server hardware instead, I'm sure there would be no valid case.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Where does it timeout on? You can probably find out the router that is the issue. If it times out before it gets beyond your ISP, chances are it's your connection. My traceroute looks good here, so it's probably not their webserver.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The guy can only offer $5 for the challenge?
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I can read it just fine over here. I don't understand why you think it's a trap? maybe it's just your internet connection. perform a traceroute against the host to see who's at fault.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think the title is misleading for the purposes of catching people's attention. The data is not available to download, and is in aggregate form. The AOL data was not in aggregate form, so it was possible to get personalized details. They
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by veemjeem 14y ago
There's also the usual engineer estimation: "Oh, it will probably take a day to rewrite the code. We'll deploy it and it will probably work just fine in production." Any engineer that has live code has made this mistake before.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Sounds like you should stay at home and grow your food on your own farm. Lots of cooking tools use hi-tech research, from non-stick pans to heat resistant spatulas. I understand your concern, but there's no need to freak out over technolo
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think it's fairly obvious why someone would do this? Suppose you want to create an event that happens to have a similar audience as those who might attend a Hacker News meetup. Now you can create a marketing message to those people with
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by veemjeem 14y ago
It's a very sleazy way of getting meetup members. I bet her other "groups" were also formed this way. Sounds like Meredith Monroe is selling some kind of scammy product to startup companies. In a way, it's also brilliant -- hack your way
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by veemjeem 14y ago
This "Meredith" also runs these meetup groups as well: http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Startup-Pitch-Night http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Startup-Pitch-Night http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Startup-Pitch-Night She's also a member of
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The aesthetics are similar to Facebook probably because they're sharing the exact same design team.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Why would he want to be purchased by twitter? I assume he still has equity there, so it wouldn't make too much sense to keep all the eggs in one basket. Increasing his equity share at twitter would be somewhat meaningless, since I'm sure
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by veemjeem 14y ago
If you think iOS is hairy supporting 4.3 and up, you probably have no experience supporting Android apps. The fragmentation extends beyond the Android version. The differences between handsets are so big that one pretty much has to ignore
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think your facts are a bit off. The "superdrive" in macbooks require significantly more power than a SSD. When you burn a dvd using the superdrive, it requires between 40-50W of power. Even the most power hungry SSDs during heavy seque
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think it just became a mainstream language. Many shops use ruby now, but nobody really talks how they're "using" ruby because it isn't cool anymore. Kinda like in the 2000's when everyone was talking about how they were using Java and V
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Windows on mobile devices is an unproven platform. Facebook waited until the iPad 2 came out before considering targeting that platform. It doesn't matter how many Windows copies are sold since those desktop users know exactly where to ac
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by veemjeem 14y ago
At least with a storm, it's somewhat predictable so one can take action before it hits the datacenter. Nobody was able to predict the outage at Amazon's datacenter which took out large sites like Airbnb & Reddit almost instantly.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
5 months to be exact :-) Pretty sad for a company selling internet access to be so naive about basic things.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think most people are aware 3D printing is available in other materials. However, all personally affordable 3d printers use plastic, mostly producing low quality goods that has limited uses. Not everyone can afford a $150,000 SLS 3d pri
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'm guessing the payment scales depend on the cost of living in your area. They pay more in Silicon Valley compared to Toronto because a 1500 sqft single family home in SV is around $1M.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Surprisingly, they source them here by visiting the States and finding people the same way Zynga & Google would. I was recently recruited for a project for a startup in Shanghai recently -- the most complicated part is the compensation
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by veemjeem 14y ago
nope, did he form the same opinion as mine?
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Go with any Google phone, they're developer friendly, support jailbreaking without doing anything crazy, has good upgrade path, and supported by 3rd party mods like cyanogenmod. All the other phones are basically crap -- you'll get one upg
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I guess that could still depend -- suppose the individual in question made lots of money by selling a software product, and develops a passion for it due to the payout. Does it matter if he was initially passionate, or only after making th

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