goleksiak

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by goleksiak 6y ago
https://www.eatabit.io is built on it. We were one of their first beta clients. We used every M2M carrier previously and Twilio is easily superior in cost & reliability. The cellular data space has alot of problems especiall
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Heroku did their best here. They reached out to us (twice) advising of changes and linking to a document that describe EXACTLY the bug that we discovered (later). Honestly, I don't feel bad about his bug because even if I would have re
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Heroku came back and said: Looking through the system, I see that you were sent two emails (in August and September) as several of your apps were migrated to the new routing stack ( https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/
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by goleksiak 12y ago
ah - my bad
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by goleksiak 12y ago
y, true
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by goleksiak 12y ago
For us, the reason is that my co-founder and I (both are not hardware guys) were able to build a proof of concept in my garage and Arduino seemed like the best (easiest) choice. Since then, we hired a hardware guy who designed a custom PCB
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Yup
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by goleksiak 12y ago
The asterisks hide this request's BasicAuth credentials between the cellular printer and our app servers...we don't transmit customer phone numbers between the printer and our app servers. Twilio transmits them to our app servers
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by goleksiak 12y ago
We are at about $200 now for hardware. We have a custom PCB and 3d printed case. We also have an LCD and some control knobs in the mix. Checking out the Beaglebone stuff now...very interesting since there is basically no 3G/4G modems f
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Charleston represent!
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by goleksiak 12y ago
I didn't want to hang our BasicAuth creds out to dry
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by goleksiak 12y ago
We would really like to use HTTPS but it's not supported by the Arduino chipset as I understand it. Though I'm not the hardware guy here at eatabit...
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Fixed. Thanks.
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by goleksiak 12y ago
What browser are you using? I'm not seeing that here on my devices...? We are using pretty vanilla Bootstrap.
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by goleksiak 12y ago
True but that doesn't bother me. Nothing is static on the web these days and everyone plays under the same rule set. Keeps things interesting...
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by goleksiak 12y ago
We use Twilio so we know our customer's phone numbers. If there were ever an issue like this, we could easily assist with a request by law enforcement.
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by goleksiak 12y ago
Yes, it's just pizza - no ccards or personal information is transmitted - except your choice of toppings. Could that be used to profile you? "...paging Dr. Freud"
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Post Mortem: A single whitespace character(eatabit.com)
333 points by goleksiak 12y ago|205 comments
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Bill Murray crashed my...log file(eatabit.com)
2 points by goleksiak 12y ago|0 comments
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by goleksiak 13y ago
This is about control - but control for what purpose? The short-term financial gain of elites? Maybe. To satisfy elite paranoia?. Maybe. Maybe this is control for stability. The government creates models of the future and with more and more