middleca

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by middleca 8y ago
This feels like a very bizarre propaganda / pro-military opinion piece. Google isn't a defense contractor, its employees aren't any more or less patriotic if they don't want to build software that goes in killbots.
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by middleca 9y ago
Particle.io is hiring! We're a fast growing, close knit team building awesome things. Tons of opportunity to work on open source projects, learn new technologies, work with hardware and software, etc. Check us out! https:/&#x2F
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by middleca 10y ago
Google and all the other mega-tech corps do a similar tech phone screen where they're reading off an answer sheet. (powers of 2, sort these functions, linux kernel calls, etc). Sounds like you dodged a bullet, this sort of thing speak
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by middleca 10y ago
Came here to say +1 to this, definitely employ a bastion host and make sure that's the only way to SSH to your servers. This can be a little tricky to do correctly if you don't have someone on your team, but it's a valuable
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by middleca 11y ago
cool project, thanks for sharing! It'd be interesting to see a wind speed sensor, temp sensor, or light sensor or something on the AC unit so you could know when it's on!
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Internet of Trees – Connected decorations(blog.spark.io)
2 points by middleca 12y ago|0 comments
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by middleca 12y ago
Schneier's estimate assumes rented hardware time, but purchased hardware and multiple attempts would drive down the cost dramatically over time. This estimate also doesn't include optimizations by leveraging previous cycles or sp
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by middleca 12y ago
Very easy to publish an event stream from your code, and to pipe those wherever :) http://docs.spark.io/firmware/#spark-publish
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by middleca 12y ago
You can actually do this with a usb cable, or flash your own firmware over the air, you'd only need a jtag programmer if you wanted to replace the open-source bootloader :)
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by middleca 12y ago
It's nuts, I think I hear about a new Spark company, product, or service every few days. Where's the company name version of this? http://jezebel.com/imagine-typing-it-a-couple-hundred-times-...
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by middleca 12y ago
Ahh, cool, that makes sense :) For a second I thought you guys might be related to this connected furby project I saw recently: http://vimeo.com/106770438 https://community.spark.io/t/internet-chat-furb
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by middleca 12y ago
Cool hack! How are you driving the furby?
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by middleca 12y ago
+1 for CoAP - We use it!
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by middleca 12y ago
oh hey! :)
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by middleca 12y ago
We have a really awesome community that can help too! - https://community.spark.io/
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by middleca 12y ago
Hi bravo22, I'm from Spark, and I can try to answer! :) With more than 20,000 units in the field, the Spark community is the largest consumer of the CC3000 module, so you get the benefits of driver testing and patches, and grea
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by middleca 12y ago
A lot of us are staying in the Twin Cities, and we're hiring! ( https://www.spark.io/jobs ), we're looking for great engineers, and we support remote work as well. :)
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by middleca 12y ago
Hi All, (full disclosure, I work at Spark) We tried hard to make sure the components on the Spark Core dev kit are really easy to source and buy in low quantities, so you can build the board yourself if you really want. Large companies oft
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Open Internet Telegraph(blog.spark.io)
2 points by middleca 12y ago|0 comments
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by middleca 13y ago
Thank you for asking, much appreciated. :) We'll probably do a small beta as we get the local cloud ready for release to make sure things are easy to use and work as expected. Since it'll be open source, I'm hoping the beta
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by middleca 13y ago
(full disclaimer: I work at Spark, and am personally responsible for the local cloud) We will definitely be releasing this, we consider it a promise we made to our Kickstarter backers.
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by middleca 13y ago
and... it's back to domain@fb.com, that was interesting
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by middleca 13y ago
see zedpm's comment earlier: Yep, the Common Questions section of their website[1] says that they'll be releasing an open source version of their Cloud. Awesome. [1] https://www.spark.io/