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barttenbrinkeon Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more

We used to put a marble and water in an empty camera film roll canister (transparant). Freeze in the freezer and flip over. If you come back and the Marble is frozen on the bottom of the canister: don't eat anything! #lowtech

barttenbrinkeon Best Linux server backup system?

Yes but simpeler imho

barttenbrinkeon Best Linux server backup system?

If you are looking for a way to drive it all, this is working very nice for me: https://github.com/meskyanichi/backup

barttenbrinkeon Please review my startup

"Pingdom but reversed" crossed my mind as an option :)

barttenbrinkeon Please review my startup

Repost from last week, but I accidentally posted it in the new instead of the ask thread, sorry! I'm particularly looking for feedback about how to explain the product better (aka creating a better sales pitch). Somehow I find it very hard to explain a simple product :). Now also available outside of Europe.

barttenbrinkeon Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service)

I'd like that, but drawing a diagram for this is hard :)

barttenbrinkeon Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service)

Thank you for the feedback. The choice for stock-photos is one of budget. I'm currently bootstrapping myself and thought this was a good tradeoff.

barttenbrinkeon Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service)

This is currently because of insurance reasons. After I get some customers, I'll get that sorted out ASAP.

barttenbrinkeon Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service)

Hi, I'm particularly looking for feedback about how to explain the product better (aka creating a better sales pitch). Somehow I find it very hard to explain a simple product :).

barttenbrinkeon 50,000 dutch nurses use NFC phones daily

Currently the battery of the phone lasts for at least a week. With GPS this would be reduced to a day or less. Also location services are opt in. You would not be able to opt-out of time tracking through GPS, which makes a big difference. The article you linked actually to explains the dangers of location tracking in great detail. You should read it :)

barttenbrinkeon 50,000 dutch nurses use NFC phones daily

Simple explanation: RFID => reading a chip, NFC => communicating with a chip.

barttenbrinkeon 50,000 dutch nurses use NFC phones daily

Primarily because tracking people 24/7 through GPS in their phone is a privacy no-no. Next tot that: GPS is really unreliable in buildings and oldfolks tend to live in appartment blocks. Also hight (floor) is an issue as well as battery life.

barttenbrinkeon 50,000 dutch nurses use NFC phones daily

Hi Rick, maybe you should come and visit Nedap. I would really like to show you how we do business here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQ5Aac96aM Kind regards, Bart