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by wiremine 8y ago
Was looking through Opportunity's Wikipedia page, and found this cool comparison of the embedded systems used in Mars rovers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute... That lead me to the RAD
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by wiremine 8y ago
I'm a VP for a software consultancy focused on IoT: I'm not surprised it wasn't a success. I give them props for trying to leverage Android for IoT, but in the end I think it was a poor fit: 1. Most IoT devices are still base
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Agreed the title should include the year of the article: 1995. It is reacting to the book "The Bell Curve" which was published in 1994. The wikipedia article is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Cur
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Cars can go do something more useful Came here to say this. The article seems to have a basic lack of imagination about the types of new vlaue automated cars will create. It also sounds like a crazy hard logistics/optimziation pro
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by wiremine 8y ago
I'm not the OP (and not associated with red an anyway, other than being a fan of REBOL), and I agree the wording deserved to be called out. "cult" and "Czech wizardry" aren't exactly positive framing words. Hop
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Came here to make this exact point. Of course, the iPhone was a unique product in terms of how it changed the trajectory of Apple's fortunes, and likely can't be replicated. It's dominated 24% of the company's history. (
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> The idea is that there are C players who are supported by B players who are supported by A players at HQ I agree it's a strategy, just not a very good one IMHO. I'd prefer to see A players at all levels, just at different lev
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Was also a bit bizarre that about 6 of them came along to a meeting with 4 of us Sounds like that's a typical mode of operation, seen that several times, too. So maybe the quality of the sales team is the variable. So if your sale
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by wiremine 8y ago
Most of my experience with IBM has been pretty reliable: 1. They bring the A players to the sales process 2. They bring the B players to manage the account (technically and commercially) 3. They bring the C/D players to do the actual
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by wiremine 8y ago
This is off topic, and I might get downvoted, but I realized I am teed up waiting for the "mongoDB hate" comments to role in... seems to be not a lot of love on HN for MongoDB. I wonder what positive use cases people have used Mon
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by wiremine 8y ago
Mid-2015 MacBook Pro running the newest OS
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To be clear: with few deps it's very fast for me, it's just lager projects with LOTS of non-trivial deps where it can slow up.
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> Pipenv is hopelessly slow. Interesting, this has never been a problem for me. I've built some large tools and while it isn't fast, it's always completed in a few minutes.
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> By perpetually refreshing the illusion that progress is just getting under way, gadget worshippers like Kelly are able to wave away the problems that progress is causing. Any ill effect can be explained, and dismissed, as just a tempor
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> I would never trust an Uber backed autonomous car system. I agree, and it makes me wonder how this is going to shake out. In the automotive industry it's very common to have the tier 1s provide LOTS of tech to the OEMs, but it&#x2
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by wiremine 8y ago
It's funny because it's true. That said: is there a status aggregator anywhere?
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by wiremine 8y ago
I think 10:1 is a good rule of thumb, but it does feel like time is a function that needs to be accounted for, too. It would also be interesting to think through how many changes there are _between releases_ of a project. MySQL is 23 years
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Having the law say your personal data is owned by you and not some company just because it's on their server may turn out to be a landmark in consumer friendly legislation! It's interesting to think where this goes in the fut
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by wiremine 8y ago
> a longer school year helps students stay focused My kids (4th and 7th) attend a school with a year-round schedule, and we (kids and parents) love it: * They are less stressed because there is more breaks throughout the year. Teachers s
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by wiremine 8y ago
I've been reading "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr, which outlines Objectives and Key Results, a concept heavily influenced (invented?) by Andy Grove. Would be interesting to hear from someone who knows if Intel still use
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What are some good use cases for compiling Golang code to wasm?
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In our case the customer was interested in using Lambda as a proxy to handle logging data from a fleet. It involved a billion+ requests a month.
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by wiremine 8y ago
It can be very expensive. I priced out two scenarios recently for an IoT solution. Using Lambda the cost would be $27,000k a month. Using a LB/EC2 solution with reserved instances the price was $60/month. (We also priced out IoT c
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Branding isn't hard; forcing a constructed brand is hard. That's the real source of friction here. Let's agree to disagree. I've been involved in dozens of branding processes. None of them were easy, from the strate
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Sure, you would hope so. The problem is all in communication: 1. Communicating the requirements with enough clarity to enable the designer to translate those requirements into creative. 2. Communicating constructive feedback to adjust the c
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by wiremine 8y ago
It is (in my experience), although that's not the point. They are satirising how clients tend to destroy good designs with bad feedback.
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by wiremine 8y ago
This is true of ANY good logo before it gets traction. There's nothing special about the Apple logo (or Apple as the name of a corporate name), for example. I mean, seriously, it's a clip art apple with a bit out of it. What makes
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by wiremine 8y ago
Caveat: I'm a software developer who's worked in agencies for half of my 20 year career. A few thoughts: 1. Branding is hard: everybody things they can do it. Creative direction and art direction are really, really hard. If you ha
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Microsoft to build a custom MCU/OS for IoT(azure.microsoft.com)
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by wiremine 8y ago
I've love to see some open source tools that manage this automagically for me. :-) It would also require an architecture that supports multiple interfaces. Totally doable (the facade pattern comes to mind) but you'd want to calcul

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