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daleco

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Design Lead at Google
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daleco··on Growing a UX tool
When my Symbols are done in sketch, I can build a mockup very quickly. Have you considered building a plugin for Sketch?

I meet with the InVisionApp sales team few months ago. Their phylosophie is to work and augment the current tools (Sketch 3...) instead of replacing them. I thought that it was a good approach.

I'd be worried that the designers will be scared by a command line based tool. This will be hard to convince people to move away from Sketch 3.

Thanks for trying to improve the designer tools, it's much needed.

daleco··on To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine
Indeed, I had constant neck and back pain (probably because I'm sitting all day long). 3-6 months of Yoga 3-4 times a week healed me. It was also very good to fight stress. It may not work for everybody or every issues.
daleco··on Finding UX in the Trash
How do you integrate UX in the agile process? People think that UX is UI. Unless you work one or two sprints ahead, it's challenging to integrate design thinking or the users in the process.
daleco··on A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas
A few years ago, I got stung by one on my Ankle in Florida. I still have a scar (5mm circle). I wouldn't imagine swimming on one of these nest, I would probably die...
daleco··on How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
I didn't see it that way, this is rather scary.
daleco··on How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
They often have a 55% off discount, reducing the cost to $5 a month (If you make one payment of $60). English is my second language, this is sometimes useful. I may switch to premium.
daleco··on Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
Unfortunately, some (big co) use it as a buzz word and rarely go back to iterate on the MVP. Just make it as inexpensive as possible, it feels like a cheap version of watergile.
daleco··on [dead]
That was so frustrating. 2 months ago, for no reason, iTunes decided to download the free U2 album and play it each time I started my car... I never use iTunes :x why did they decided that it was a good idea to auto download and auto play the album is quite a mystery...
daleco··on Let employees work from home
InVision App may not be a Billion dollar company yet, I bet that they are close and they will in 2017-2018 (50 million serie D in 2016). They are an entirely remote company (at least they claim that when doing a demo at work couple weeks ago)

https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/remote-worker-truths/

daleco··on Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing
I worked on similar technologies from 2007 to 2015. With tactile stimulations, using the regular alphabet, a user could read a 5 letters word under 15s after few hours of training. After 20h It was taking me <5s. The learning curve with Braille will be stiffer, I would be surprised if they can reach 100 words per second. They may start with basic common words, such as "ok" or "lol". What happens in the brain is quite interesting, you start to "see" what you feel and associate pattern with words. You don't have to recognize all the letters to get the word.

The technologie is called sensory substitution, I think it started in the 80s. Skin-reading is a funny terminology.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guy_Boy/publication/266...

daleco··on Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing
I worked on vibrotactile and electrotactile technologies (Mostly on the tongue, belly or chest...) for years. The most sensitive part of your body is the tongue, that's where you would get the best resolution. You could turn a b/w images, process it and lower the resolution, then turn the white into levels of stimulation. Unfortunately, the resolution on the tongue display is 20x20. It has its limitation, in a controlled environment we trained people to read 4-5 letter words in few seconds or distinguish shapes. For spatial orientation, it's better to use systems similar to a lidar and use a tactile vest to inform the user how close is the collision.

The best use of these systems were for training formula 1 drivers (clue for shifting, braking, timing...), force feedbacks for telesurgery or restauring proprioception for exoskeleton users.

https://www.ihmc.us/research/multi-sensory-multi-modal-neura...

https://www.sages.org/meetings/annual-meeting/abstracts-arch...

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jr/2011/284352.pdf

daleco··on New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary
Non for profit salaries are public, they aren't paying top salaries usually.
daleco··on Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015)
In France, only certified school can deliver engineer degrees, it's a symbol of a high standard of competence and quality. They are required to teach core engineering classes and other topics (biomechanics, signal processing, management, neuroscience...), industry experts also have to come and teach. One of their goal is to teach the students how to analyze a problem from different angles.

We learn a lot more beside software engineering.

daleco··on In the current immigration debate, neither side is revealing the whole picture
Another issue is that some companies will find a way around by using different job titles with a lower average salary
daleco··on 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
Some companies use Universities to hire foreign Software engineer with the title of "Research Associate", lower wage, same job. Then claiming that they are recruiting the best in the world while providing a very low wage (research associate prevailing wage instead of SE). It can get worse, I have a friend that has been under a J1 for years, while he is not a student anymore. The company pays a student salary (2k/month) instead of a H1B prevailing wage.
daleco··on Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from modern violins
Good point, but a well conducted study should be anonymous and shouldn't include the professor inside the room. I doubt that the professor conducted the study (his phd students more likely did) The second study had random students (not trained ones)
daleco··on Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from modern violins
I remember reading about this study. They conducted the study at the oenology school that was right next to my engineering school. I vaguely remember that they used the student from the same oenology school for one of the study. I read similar studies conducted with wine experts, the conclusions were similar, it's about expectation. Maybe few people with extraordinary taste buds could tell the difference, but the general population won't.

You can find a link to the study there https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-ta...

daleco··on The Encryption Debate Isn’t Taking a Thanksgiving Break
Good point, I missed that part...
daleco··on The Simple, Sleek and Smart electric standing desk
We launched our Kickstarter. Please check it out, let us know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

daleco··on Researchers discovered the perfect password that’s easy to remember
I was thinking about that... The average person is using 5000 words. We could assume that the poems do too. (5000^4/ (300,000,000,000))/(60*60) = 0.57 hour with 4 words at 350 billion guess per second (http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack...). 1300 years with 6 words.
daleco··on Send Messages by Carrier Pigeons
Their startup is actually upstair in my building since a couple months. I'll go talk to them to figure out what's going on. I guess it's a way to get attention and that they will provide some sort of secure messaging system.
daleco··on Akido Labs (YC W15) Provides an API Layer for Hospital App Developers
Looks awesome!

If the Healthcare provider EHR is already compatible with FHIR. What incentive do I have to use your API? Are you also hosting the Healthcare and patient data?

daleco··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)
Location: Pensacola, fl

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Objective C, Matlab, UX design, few years of experience in web technologies (6 years ago in LAMP, Html,css)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lecoutre/20/47a/a1b

Resume: http://ocelad.com/download/resume.pdf

Portfolio: http://www.ocelad.com

I'm a Software and Cognitive engineer with strong skills in Java and User experience design. Experienced on a variety of technical and creative projects including tactile feedback, surgery simulator, and an iOS 3D interface. Looking for a challenging and fast-paced environment and an opportunity to have a positive impact.

My research include Sensory substitution and augmentation. Interested in mobile platform, web technologies, IoE. Green card holder. My native language is French and I speak fluent English.

Email: dlecoutre at gmail dot com

daleco··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2014)
Location: Pensacola, fl

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Objective C, Matlab, UX design, few years of experience in web technologies (6 years ago in LAMP, Html,css)

Resume:https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lecoutre/20/47a/a1b

Portfolio: www.ocelad.com

I'm a Software and cognitive engineer. I have strong skills in Java and User experience design. Experienced on a variety of technical and creative projects including tactile feedback, surgery simulator, and an iOS 3D interface. Looking for a challenging and fast-paced environment and an opportunity to have a positive impact.

My research include Sensory substitution and augmentation. Interested in mobile platform, web technologies, IoE Green card holder. My native language is French and I speak fluent English.

Email: dlecoutre at gmail dot com

daleco··on When Good Waves Go Rogue
This was the teaser of an article, in the middle of it, there is a paywall... Not nice :x
daleco··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)
Location: Pensacola, fl

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Looking to relocate in CA, I might consider other location in the US)

Technologies: Java, Objective C, Matlab, UX design, few years of xperience in web technologies 6 years ago in LAMP, Html,css

Resume:https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lecoutre/20/47a/a1b

I'm a Software and cognitive engineer. I have strong skills in Java and User experience design. Experienced on a variety of technical and creative projects including tactile feedback, surgery simulator, and an iOS 3D interface. Looking for a challenging and fast-paced environment and an opportunity to have a positive impact.

My research include Sensory substitution and augmentation. Interested in mobile platform, web technologies, IoE

Green card holder. My native language is French and I speak fluent English.

Email: dlecoutre at gmail dot com

daleco··on 2048
It's a good start but you will get stuck at higher level. in your case focus on increasing the value on the bottom left. When possible, shift the last line to the right. Never go up.
daleco··on 2048
It took me 2-3 hours on friday, and some luck :) http://imgur.com/PNRIfW6
daleco··on 2048
My strategy is to always try to keep the high number blocks on one edge of the square. The highest block should be in the corner, then the blocks should be sorted by decreasing. E.g : 512 256 128 64...

http://imgur.com/PNRIfW6

daleco··on 2048
I finally won! 2048 with a score of 20556. This game is evil!
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