benjamind

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by benjamind 6y ago
The Crew Displays do not use Knockout.js. As far as I am aware this is possibly used in some other asset management software developed in-house for manufacturing teams but definitely not onboard Dragon.
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by benjamind 6y ago
Yup.
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by benjamind 12y ago
Good luck everyone. Will be interesting to see the community try and solve some real problems.
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by benjamind 12y ago
Totally fair point, the product itself is somewhat....over designed ;-)
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by benjamind 12y ago
Having played around with 3d printers for the last couple of years I have to say that they are an indispensable tool for makers/hackers/inventors/artist types. However for mass market as many here have said we are just not th
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by benjamind 12y ago
I don't know about that. I think I'd take the flight, then launch a kickstarter off the back of the publicity :-)
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by benjamind 12y ago
Who's going to be first to enter and what are you going to build?
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by benjamind 13y ago
We just released a new version with user upload support. Hope its useful for you.
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by benjamind 13y ago
Hey all, looking for some feedback on our new site. A lot more detail about what we're trying to do can be found on our blog at http://blog.datasheet.net Would love to hear what you think.
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Show HN: We're trying to create a better datasheet - Datasheet.net(datasheet.net)
7 points by benjamind 13y ago|3 comments
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by benjamind 14y ago
Yeah I think that's definitely been the problem thus far. There's a wind of change in the air though, I would definitely encourage you to try contacting the large manufacturers directly and see if you can get some buy-in. We've had some ver
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by benjamind 14y ago
Well lets hope that the CircuitHub team can get the traction they need to get the attention of the big manufacturers then. There's certainly a chicken and the egg problem happening with this kind of innovation right now. I know for a fact t
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by benjamind 14y ago
What would it take to make a footprint database you can trust? I would imagine that community ranking/flagging of content could surely clean up inconsistent or invalid designs making the database more reliable. Would approved manufacturer a
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by benjamind 15y ago
Not so much sadly. Its rather limited in terms of design area, and the technology probably wouldn't scale to larger schematics anyway since its SVG based and currently SVG performance scales rather badly in most browsers. Likewise there is
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by benjamind 15y ago
Do you have a reference for this? I'd love to see the stats.
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Ask HN: How would you open source a SaaS business?
1 points by benjamind 15y ago|0 comments
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by benjamind 15y ago
Interesting. I have often wondered about the peak traffic and post churn times on HN. The 9am period you hit would logically be a fairly low traffic time given that the bulk of HN readers are US based (I am assuming here, correct me if I am
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by benjamind 15y ago
This is the approach we have been taking at CircuitBee ( http://www.circuitbee.com ). We have Eagle and KiCAD importing, with versioning on the way already. We're not aiming to replace the tools you already use, just make it easier to share
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by benjamind 15y ago
Haha! Never saw that site before, but man are those some upset employees! It certainly is a hell of a place to work as a developer. I was almost grateful for it in a way, it was my first professional developer job (they tend to hire fresh m
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by benjamind 15y ago
Yes, the complete package is what they can offer big business. There are so many pieces to it now that they can turn it to a huge range of different uses. The problem they have (well at least had when I was there a few years ago) is that no
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by benjamind 15y ago
Not sure how true that is. At their most basic they do text classification and extraction, as well as document comparison. So you can index a whole load of documents, then train the system to recognise a particular type of document (based o
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by benjamind 15y ago
That is quite likely. They have a huge range of contacts amongst government, educational, financial and just about every other large organisation you can think of. If you wanted to get into retailing software to large business, they would b
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by benjamind 15y ago
I worked for them for a couple of years as a developer. They do have an underlying core technology developed in the very early days of the company which they have exploited to the absolute maximum possible. It works fairly well, but Bayesia
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by benjamind 15y ago
Agreed. Very useful for PHP development.
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by benjamind 15y ago
I'm glad someone put this up here, after the press we've had the last couple of days I think I need advice from all you guys on how to manage this. Since Make posted about it on Saturday we've had over 45k unique views, and over a thousand
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Ask HN: T&C's that don't cause outrage but keep us safe?
2 points by benjamind 15y ago|0 comments
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by benjamind 15y ago
Sadly it appears so. I had a very emphatic "Either cancel your contract, or keep your apps on the store" response from their helpdesk yesterday. This is a shame, such heavy handed tactics will keep myself and a great many other developers (
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by benjamind 15y ago
I agree with your conclusion, and understand the reasoning behind the clause. I just don't understand how it makes good sense for them to force me into a situation where I must choose between having an app in an inappropriate marketplace ga
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Ask HN: Do Amazon own all of my apps now?
18 points by benjamind 15y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: What we did during the royal wedding - Android Unicode Keyboard
1 points by benjamind 15y ago|0 comments

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