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http://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingnewswatch/2017/otc-he...

Up till now a "hearing aid" is classed as a medical device and requires a trained medical professional to fit it.

Everyone and their dog will be getting in on the act now.

Modern hearing aids mostly avoid feedback by having a cancelling algorithm built in to the software - they are very effective these days and you would barely ever hear a squeak. But also, there's a type of hearing aid called receiver-in-canal/ear (RIC or RIE) which has the sound output in your canal and the microphone in a small unit behind your ear and because they are far enough apart feedback does not occur. I'm wearing GN ReSound Linx 3D RICs at the moment, they are amazing tech, I can remote programme them from my iPad and stream phone calls + music directly through my hearing aids.

As someone said in another comment it is friction holding them in, a moulded aid in the canal does fit snuggly, which is what I have, but for less severe hearing losses many people wear a round one-size-fits-all flexible rubber tip in the ear, it does press against the canal enough to hold it in place but is super comfortable.

I've never once had a hearing aid pop out of my ear and I've worn them doing all sorts of sports activities.

As technology improved the in-the-ear piece could become more 'open' in that it didn't have to fill the whole ear to avoid feedback, could be a soft tip that wasn't molded to an individual's canal and allowed in some unprocessed sounds that didn't travel through the aid.

It's so normal today to see people with something in their ear, usually Apple buds, and because hearing aid manufacturers have realised it's a smart move to stop marketing them as medical devices as such and positions them more as cool-tech hearing enhancers, I think the stigma of hearing loss and wearing hearing aids will soon be a thing of the past.

https://jimwendler.com/blogs/jimwendler-com/101065094-5-3-1-...

There are some apps that calculate weights for you and show you what you need to do each session, I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vandersw.w...

This tool allows people to record hearing test results. Gets quite a lot of use from professionals and academics.

1. I would look at your CV and see your narrow focus but I would still be wondering based on your experiences whether you could move to the technology we use.

2. Good/great developers seem to be in short supply, if you can prove your ability to understand code, build robust things and ship you would be just fine in my interview.

3. I think you would find a lot of very similar technology in the Java field and it wouldn't be a huge hurdle for you to pick that up if you have a good and deep understanding of how you currently deliver apps using ASP. If you could show on your portfolio how you have picked up Java/Ruby/Python/whatever based on your 20 years of experience and show you understand "how things work" rather than the nitty gritty of a the language then you would beat a lot of the people we interview.

In short, if you came to an interview for a Java job I would be more interested in how easy you would be able to learn what we do with Spring etc and how much and how deeply you understood the stack you were working with rather than worrying too much about you not have "5 years of Spring MVC" or whatever other blurbs HR stuck on the job description. I've interviewed a lot of people who have no clue whatsoever how MVC works and have no notion about how things fit together to make a system, they just fill in the gaps in the Spring/Hibernate/library config and write a few lines of code and "it just works". If you have the deep knowledge I think you can easily take a senior/architect role in Java-land.

Only time I visit Brum is to fly somewhere from the airport, so no! Name came from a favourite sweet when I was younger and it was also the name of a great cartoon in the 70s.

1. When I can "Invite people to suggest places and times by sharing this url with them" it would be great if there was some kind of pre-populated email that could be send that contained a blurb about the meetup and some info on how they would use the link they have been sent.

2. When I return to the site as someone who has been invited it is not immediately clear if I need to do anything, maybe a big "Yeah, I'll attend" button?

3. Could the meetup page show who has been invited and who is attending?

We both blogged in the same niche for many years and exchanged a few emails, cross-posts and that kind of thing. Last year, I realised I was never going to make a successful business by myself and started to look for a non-technical co-founder - I emailed Geoff because I knew that he knew his stuff in our niche and he seemed like a good bloke.

My email was something along the lines of, "I'm thinking of building something, no idea what, fancy it?", the time was right for him and we have been profitable almost from day one.

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - partially read it before online but couldn't get into it, bought the book and hope to nail it this time.

It was a dark and stormy night....

Start now.

Building a product and marketing it are two completely different things. Most of your concerns are connected to the marketing aspect (no connections etc) but there doesn't seem to be anything stopping your from building it?

If you build this thing and it is a flop then you still come out with a few wins: you show yourself to be someone capable of building a complete/ussable system and you have something to put onto your CV. You'll also probably learn a bunch of new things and come out a better developer.

Once you've built a proof of concept/MVP then you are in a better position to attract some people: showing your work to people is going to get more interest than "I've got this idea but I've done nothing with it" will.

Sales and marketing are a whole different ballgame and are fricking hard but I don't think you need to worry about those yet. Build the thing first, then worry. You have nothing to lose from building it and everything to gain.

"Would you focus on networking and save your ideas until you felt like you were part of the world? Would you focus on saving money, and plan to move and get a foothold in California? Would you ask for time off work and develop a prototype in private?"

None of those, I would build the prototype in my spare time, the safest option as you still have your status quo if the product does not take off. The Web gives us freedom to start companies for next to no money from anywhere in the world, the fact you are not in Silicon Valley does not hold you back at all.

Stop looking for excuses and getting to work!

Good luck.

I've read quite a few articles recently about this blurring of office and home life and people being "on" all the time, has this really become normal for most people? It was "go home on time day" the other week, have things really got so bad that people need a special day just to get home and see their family?

I get paid to work 35 hours a week, I work those and then I'm not at work and unavailable unless I've agreed to paid overtime. I assumed most people worked like this too?

I'm currently working on a project and would've happily paid for this if I'd seen it at the time and it met my requirements. Currently I'm using CKEditor and happy with it but I would've paid to get a simpler/sleeker product without hesitation.

Having said that, I couldn't see image uploading and browse (of uploaded images) in the demo, which would be a deal-breaker for me.

Totally frustrating for all concerned. It so often feels like everyone has forgotten why they are there (to define, build, test and ship something) and just spend their whole time butting heads against each other because the other person is not doing things exactly the same way as they do.

Never heard of Watsi before but will definitely now consider donating.