dammitcoetzee

Shh. Don't tell them about Bellingham. Haha

Alright. I'll apply. I'm barely through the business model stage, but I'll do it. I'll lose some sleep, but if YC is serious about hardware then ok.

It was a little high for a while when I wasn't exercising. But then it went normal again fast with the return of healthy habits. I would like to order some of the nfc glucose monitors from Germany that stay on the arm a week at a time and map my blood sugar to get a better view. I really hate the needle for the regular kind.

I had something like that forever. Chronic fatigue, headaches, foggy memory, muscle pain. It all built up to actual chronic depression. The kicker is that im, as far as tests go, stupid healthy. I even exercise regularly. I've been to doctors on and off but the prescription was all sleep (get plenty), exercise(boxing six times a week), eat better (eat pretty well all things considered) Etc.

Since I kept getting politely told it was in my head I kept up my slow stream of research and personal experimentation.

I finally had a breakthrough earlier this year. I realized that my stomach was misbehaving more and more than it used to. Thought maybe I was lactose intolerant so I Stopped drinking milk. Holy shit did I feel better. Thought for sure that it was milk. Felt bad after having some cookies. Assumed it was the low milk content in them. Cut out anything sweet since most sweet things have milk. Cheated in Italy and had cheese and such. Felt fine. Kept cheating. Got a little worse. Had a bite of gelato. One bite. Instant gastronomical disagreement. Finally made the connection between sugar and my mood. Like any sugar. Even overly refined bread is risky. My favorite drink used to be lattes. Of which the steamed milk is practically pure sugar froth.

Anyway. A very large portion of my symptoms have vanished. I can even go back and relate the mopey parts of my journal to particularly refined dietary swings (like when I'm in a high stress time with lots of prepared food)

As soon as I get real health insurance again I'm gonna persue a dietary based inquiry rather than a mood and psychiatric based one. I imagine I can get even better results.

It's practically modern culture to be negative about everything. When there are two equally probable outcomes I've noticed that people tend to lavish on the negative one to exclusion and treat people with positive outlooks as annoying, chipper, ignorant, or immature. It's odd. My theory is that positivity requires some claim of responsibility over the outcome while negatively allows one to divorce themselves from it.

One of the things I discovered later in life was that all the things I thought I was too poor to do in highschool were never actually limited by the amount of money I had. It was mostly the work I was willing to put in. After some of the things I've done now... If I had just sat down and thought about it, I could have come up with a way.

That's cool. Do you have any pictures of the sword or process?

I have to fix a lot of broken URLS from the submissions sent in to hackaday.com. I guess I don't even think about fiddling with them until they show up anymore, haha:) What a weird skill.

It's adorable. For kids by kids. Author Eva. Not a bad robot either. She obviously works very hard.

Remove the /fulltext and it loads instantly.

Plus, there's just the incredible quality of the work they do https://hackaday.com/author/dammitcoetzee/ ;)

Find the guy whose work you like the most at your company and bother him all the time. Most good technical people love to help, to be asked questions, and ultimately to be valued for the experience they've worked hard to get. In the end mentorship is something that you seek out and get for yourself. It's rare that someone will actually attach the title mentor to a such a relationship.

I ranted a bit on this as well on Hackaday http://wp.me/pk3lN-PBv . Apple and Foxconn just have an unimaginable amount of capital. However, I don't think hardware designers should despair. There are many ways to design things, and constraint is the mother of innovation. As the author mentions, it's entirely possible to make products just as appealing with a fraction of the cost.

You call the supplier, tell them you know nothing, and ask them to help you understand what they're capable of. You should find a mentor, this is the kind of retroactively obvious advice I got from mine.

Oh. Not so far fetched from an economics standpoint. We've been burning natural gas into the air for years because there's no demand for the supply. Build a product to create the demand for a surplus thing that needs a market. Big trucks are understood. Battery systems at this scale are understood, also natural gas motors that run at this size are understood. It's imminently buildable.

Of course they are. It's been lies and flim flam for a while. Worst printers on the market, just look at the reviews. They had US manufacturing going for them, but I guess even that much of their previous reputation, honor, and pride was too much to hold on to.

It makes a lot of sense that they forked the project. If you're selling a hardware product, like hell you're giving someone else administrative command over the code base that you're going to have to pay money to support. The code that your product's five star rating relies on.

push request #800020201 "Hey, Hernando, think you can push that update to Wiring now, we're paying quite a lot in support time here. The LEDs aren't blinking since you pushed that update to support EEPROM chips from the 80s"

It's the same reason Apple keeps their code to their hardware. I think it's a brillant business move, and anyone thinking of releasing low-level open-source code as a primary component of a hardware project should imitate it.

Also, did I miss the part in the article where Wiring and its boards were set up to become a huge success without Arduino's clever marketing and business plan? It seems like it was doomed to have "huge successes", like one class in one university out of thousands.

The guy should 100% get more credit, and if this happened to me I would always be a little hurt about it, but at the same time, would it be a big deal if it had never extended past a thesis somewhere? Would it matter if Arduino hadn't been a bunch of really clever people?

Looks like half their staff is made of vice presidents. https://www.metavision.com/join-meta

Maybe they're running the leanest of lean operations, but given the challenge of actually making hardware, I'm not certain anyone will see a working version of this until the second Hololens is out.

I can't wait till we can 3d print materials with compatible electro-grammetric properties to allumite. With brass fill, carbon fill, and magneto polymer fill petg and abs, we're getting closer to full ionic encapsulation which will let us make an equivalent device. Though, our rotational flex won't be as balanced. For now, however, differential girdle springs will still have to be purchased off the shelf.

I can't believe this thing lives out there. I had to spray a single mote of house dust out of my Neato vacuum's laser range finder the other day. It was causing my vacuum an existential crisis. Yet this rover is out there in robot hell for years, and is just going and going. All I'm saying is the engineer who designed the dust gaskets on those motors should win a medal. A big shiny gold medal.

It took me a bit to find the word I wanted to use to describe what Google's old logo had vs. the new one. I think the old logo was classier. This new one is sort of uninspiring.

After some time working in "start-ups" this is one thing I agree with more than anything.

"Hours While people occasionally choose to push themselves to work some extra hours at times when something big is going out the door, for the most part working overtime for extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in planning or communication. If this happens at Valve, it’s a sign that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected. If you’re looking around wondering why people aren’t in “crunch mode,” the answer’s pretty simple. The thing we work hardest at is hiring good people, so we want them to stick around and have a good balance between work and family and the rest of the important stuff in life."

Hah! I live in a pineapple under the sea apparently.

The thing that kills me about Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, etc. is how they are slowly expanding the toy section of the stores. It's pretty much gotten to the point where they are stocking so few books I want, there is no point in making the trip. I would go in hopes of getting the book now instead of waiting a couple days for shipping.

Every-time they said, "Sorry sir, we don't have that book in stock, but we can order it for you" I would excuse myself from the conversation, load up the amazon app while walking, and have it ordered before I had my car door open.

FTDI Makes fantastic chips though.

"The following "content" is alpha, like a wolf." haha, fantastic.

Wow, a company that can handle a thing like this in stride has to make a good product. I will look at them next time I need tires.

Yes! This is what I've been waiting for! Dropbox is still my favorite; it just works so well.

Just to put the number of 1,000 to 28,000 birds per year in perspective. If you do the math for birds killed by house-cats (1.3-4 billion birds a year in US) into the square miles of the united states. You end up with house-cats killing 350 to 1078 birds per square mile per year. Of course this is a silly approximation, but large numbers are harder to grasp than small ones without mental tools like this.

Anyway, while killing birds with solar death beams is bad, I don't think it's bad enough to halt the progress. I mean, at least build a solar death array that can outdo mittens.

Quadrature is a gray code with two offset spoke sets so that you can tell direction and rotation by which pulse precedes the other. http://www.ni.com/white-paper/4763/en/