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by _aarti 9y ago
They chose to do it their way and not make incremental improvements. It's America - Land of dreams - right?
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by _aarti 9y ago
Right, and I would agree with you - we had outside consultants who worked alongside us, in iOS, in Firmware, in Cloud, in EE, in Security. We all worked as a team to put the last finishes on the product. Also, there were a lot of new employ
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by _aarti 9y ago
I mean - I don't know - this is the tech mecca of the world. If these VC's and Engineers don't have vision/mission to go all in, what chances does the rest of the world have to bet on hardware startups?
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by _aarti 9y ago
> The whole idea was bullshit from the get-go. The market says otherwise - Amazon is all over this at the moment, so is Nest.
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by _aarti 9y ago
The product was built in China on the same lines that build the iPhone with the same detail. Manufacturing quality hardware is capital intensive, Finding people who can support that level of engineering is capital intensive, Hiring security
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by _aarti 9y ago
He fought hard to become full time, he came in as a contractor and became full time within a month. He was paid until the last day. The contractors in the engineering team were all given option join full-time from the get go - they chose no
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by _aarti 9y ago
Thank you so much for saying this. The engineering team was literally in tears because they could not ship. We all wanted to ship the product so bad. It hurt.
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by _aarti 9y ago
I mean - think about, would you listen to someone who had given 3+ years of blood/sweat to a company and product vs 3 months. The shutdown was mishandled, we all felt the pain. Most of all the contractors and I wish I could pay them. I
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by _aarti 9y ago
Thank you, Kevin, for everything you did.
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by _aarti 9y ago
Agreed!. They took a chance on hardware Look at all the companies building the same old SAAS products doing the same old stuff and getting tons of investment.
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by _aarti 9y ago
The employee never worked on the actual product. He joined as a contractor 1 month before launch to work in the IT department on the website. He had been with the company only 3 months. So, I disagree with his comments about the product. Hi
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Men Are Sabotaging the Online Reviews of TV Shows Aimed at Women(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by _aarti 10y ago|1 comments
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by _aarti 11y ago
There are startups working in this area in SF. I interviewed at one.
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by _aarti 11y ago
I made a donation anyway with paypal, much appreciate your work. Also checkout funding from Travis foundation and DuckDuckGo. If you need help with traffic to your site, let me know, I work at a CDN. http://foundation.travis-ci.o
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by _aarti 11y ago
I use it to donate to exercism. It's nice to see other contributions
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by _aarti 11y ago
I have trouble with paypal
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by _aarti 11y ago
I have used iterm for a long time and I would like to donate to your project. I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it's not too much trouble. https://www.patreon.com&#x2F
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by _aarti 11y ago
I use Lua. It's super light-weight, very easy to get started, and not a lot of ceremony( concise language) and has good integration with C libraries
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by _aarti 11y ago
Self-congratulatory and verbose, gratuitous inclusion of algorithm names and references to make it appear more technical than the actual content, plenty of typos and grammar mistakes(stopped counting halfway through at 10 or so).
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Flexbox Cheatsheet Cheatsheet(jonibologna.com)
4 points by _aarti 11y ago|1 comments