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ranjithdsmon Robots Are Already Killing People

The robot operating space should be fenced out or should have a proper collaboration defined.

The future is going to be more robots work in parallel to humans and collaborate. Robot manufacturers should ensure the collaboration between robots.

ranjithdsmon Ask HN: How to encourage development team to expand their knowledge base

The current generation is not ready to try permutation / combinations to debug things. This is not only for the software companies. It is everywhere.

Try to give them new challenges and allow them to solve it themselves without your help. Reward them. This will encourage some health competition.

If you have grown organically. Don't hire experienced developers and mix them with the team. If your team size is small, you can do that.

Good Luck !!

ranjithdsmon The Death of PLCs (Program Logic Control) Is Coming

Thanks for your insights. Definitely in the past few decades, PLCs has evolved a lot However I believe the time has come to evolve further.

The replacement will come on the smaller functional ones to start with.

ranjithdsmon Understanding disconnects when PLCs are mounted into Machines

Exactly OPC standard is more open and we will be able to understand the relationship of the values on the response from the PLC.

Unfortunately not every protocol is like that and not everyone adopts it :(

ranjithdsmon My Business Card Runs Linux

Great and a cool project.

It looks promising for someone to share their personal profile and their Resume.

For business, The best part will be to have cards received into the System and transfer them to their CRM or contacts or some other application they use.

ranjithdsmon Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

The data ownership is very important for business world. The reason why we built our products for IoT ( www.bevywise.com ) as a more install able version is the data privacy and ownership.

We really see this largely in manufacturing industry. If not local, we should provide private servers and data security.

ranjithdsmon Ask HN: How do I go about selling an unsolicited service to a business?

Most innovative / successful products were unsolicited. Write the best value proposition and start pitching it to your prospects. Your proposal will get refined over time based on the customer feedback and it will start selling.

Get Started and get your hands soiled...

ranjithdsmon Why MQTT is better than REST

Sorry for that experience. We are working on fixing it up. Please read it on MEdium if you are not able to read further - https://medium.com/bevywise/mqtt-vs-rest-from-iot-implementa...

ranjithdsmon Why MQTT is better than REST

Sorry for the slow response of the site due to traffic. Check medium in case it fails - https://medium.com/bevywise/mqtt-vs-rest-from-iot-implementa...

All major providers of Platform supports MQTT and MQTT is going to be most widely used. Most of the current implementations are over REST which will not scale up as the frequency goes up.

interested to know what is the protocol you use today.

ranjithdsmon Why MQTT is better than REST

Sorry for the slow loading of the site. This is due to the traffic and slow loading of the site.

Do check the medium link of the post -

https://medium.com/bevywise/mqtt-vs-rest-from-iot-implementa...

ranjithdsmon Anyone know of cheaper alternatives to Hostgator?

I host my website at amazon aws.

Try amazon aws and you will get a free 12 months hosting.