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Their software and hardware are not better than their competitors. At best, they are on-par with the best.
Not surprising given the enormous cost. Easy-Cheap-Good. Pick 2. Easy and Good.
Should anyone praise Apple for anything outside their marketing department?
Do you like the writing style and inclusion of gifs?
And you are asking the government to step in? I hope people can see the irony and risk in this.
I would love to hear people debate this, to me, this sounds like one of the worst ideas.
SO I can agree with this comment.
Heck, FB sucks. Or rather, seeing my supposedly libertarian friends support Tariffs and Wall spending has sucked.
Making big decisions over the next 1 month as I have 3 major projects. My (already popular) website, this dishwasher, and my finance app.
Did mention this thread to my co-engineer, I'm pretty sure he is going to make this a reality.
The biggest question regarding the dishwasher is-
Do we go luxury and expensive since plumbing is already a multi thousand dollar requirement? Or, should we go commodity, and have users attach to their kitchen sink(portable dishwasher style)?
How much would you pay for the dishwasher, table, chairs, electrical and plumbing? (full service)
I'll have follow up details in ~1 month if you want to follow on Efficiency Is Everything.
The nice part was that it was nearly entirely on me. Didn't have to wait for other people, aside from some shipping.
Prototyping is definitely possible! Wish you the best as well!
I have tried applying to Embedded jobs but I cannot get past HR.
Guess I'm sticking with Electrical Engineering for a little longer.
I'll start with the story-
Back when I was 18 and working at a clothing store, I asked my boss if I could be paid in NASDAQs instead of USD. The answer- No. I don't particularly like government currency, because the government prints more every year. However, the market grows at ~7%/yr. I still dreamed of getting paid in Investment.
The App-
This app tokenizes an S&P500 index fund. This way you can trade something 'better' than USD with friends. I also have an end goal of being able to spend it on a debit card, similar to my Bitcoin debit card Shift.
The programming was intense as it was my first time writing a database that did anything interesting. Wrote in double entry book keeping, friends, users etc..
Previous experience in database was merely submitting insert queries.
I have a few serious business considerations before I show it to my audience on my website(Efficiency Is Everything). But either way, I have a fully functional database with a front end for Web, Android, and iOS. Worst case, I can use this app for my next project.
If you have any thoughts about this idea, I'd love to hear from you.
I'll run down the list of automation I did, hopefully to give you some ideas. Least complex, to complex.
>Kill program, launch program, and press OK. We have a program that crashes often. This quickly kills it(which otherwise requires clicking out of error messages). Then reopens and clicks OK which starts a long boot process.
>Copy, paste, delay, down. Repeat. A slow system could not handle mass copy paste. This was a solution.
>Open PDF file, sign document. Repeat for all docs in a folder. This was nice because after I checked the document in English, I could sign off in all the languages without having to resign manually.
>Showing every permutation of a part based on rules. And presenting it in common english rather than &A78&F48
>Screenshot approver page- This got a bit harder. Using keyboard shortcuts + looking for images to jump through an Application to a final screen. Then Screenshot each approver page. The next bullet is a much better solution
>Send email/open IM/or open Work Order. We have an excel file that has 1 approver, and I scrapped that into a sqlite database. With that I could create a sample email with tons of relevant information. Outlook had the email, subject, and body filled in. I would edit before sending. This is otherwise a 5-10 minute process. Doing this on 10 Work Orders per day was extremely time consuming. I made a production version that could select Email, Instant Message, or open Work Order.
>Everything about a part- Similar scraping, but using an online table instead of Excel. Put it in sqlite, I automated opening up drawings, automated finding different colors and their part numbers, opening up relevant work orders, etc...
Some notes on all of this- Sqlite might have been overkill, but these were 100 column and 5000+ row queries. I knew sql, so I used it.
Upgrading to Windows 10 killed my production app. I never got it fixed(I was a General Motors sacrifice + I was busy after the upgrade with my job)
These were the ones I'd use daily.
I would also write scripts for one-off tasks.
Hope that gives you some ideas!
EDIT: serious question, because if it is, I can restrict content on my website.
This is like a front page advertisement.
What about Wikipedia?
I run my website in this fashion.
Best schools, safe, and has a high property tax.
10 miles south of us is Detroit. Where the Detroit voters re-elected Kawammi kilpatrick despite having constant public corruption.
Do I want those voters to impact my schools? Do those voters want to spend 9,000$/yr on property taxes?
Its far too simplistic to think that there is only redundancies at play.
At first glance, Tinder sounded like some end game dating opportunity.
While its first users were embarrassed to say they were doing online dating, I reassured them- Its fine! Find your SO!
Years later, it seems to have turned into a world of unmet expectations.
When its incredibly easy to find a date, people don't seem to try as hard to make things work. They find flaws and compare. The worst offenders never seem to be happy.
Admittedly, it might have also further shrunk the pool of "the good ones", where the only people left have bad jobs, drug problems, and incredibly high expectations.
On another note, I'm wondering how it has changed Sex. It seems sex has never been easier to have due to these dating apps. I wonder if people will be able to settle down.
>Most
Most?
You mean sometimes.
They have a legitimate reason to buy it. Why not cronyism at the same time?
This would explain the industry leading quantities as well.
C++, Arduino, Electrical Engineering, and worked with a mechanical engineer on the design execution.
Here is the story, skip to the bottom if you want to see the youtube video-
Started this year working on a finance App, this one needed to be perfect. React Native, Laravel PHP mysql. The app is almost finished, and is worthy of a note in its own right. This 6 month project taught me more about programming than the last 9 years. In the process I started automating my Electrical Engineering job in python. Word got out, and I got head hunted by a stranger at work. They were looking for Embedded Systems, I applied, and was denied the position because I didn't have experience.
So I needed experience in Embedded Systems, and I've hated doing dishes. This was a problem that could teach me Embedded Systems and grow my Electrical Engineering skills(B.S. was in Chem engineering, M.S. Industrial Engineering). And it did.
Since there was nothing to copy from, I would spend 2-3 days researching EVERYTHING there was to know about resistors. Then when I knew which resistor I would need, I'd have to spend 2-3 days on capacitors. Since the HN thread might care about relevant details- Learned everything about stepper motors, ICs, I2Cs, controlling electricity, and voltage. Since I wanted to learn embedded systems, I didn't use delays, instead I used a state system with interrupts.
It took ~2 months start to finish.
Here is the video of the working prototype-
There is no new data here, only a combination of old data.
Wait, they got rid of mortgage interest?
Since the internet told me to see a CPA, I did. And I was not happy at how limited his knowledge base was. I corrected him a few times during our meeting. We had a conversation about Mortgage Interest and this never came up.
Isnt the point of the certification to be the expert? I'm just a math guy that can read.
The US Military
And not because its particularly useful, but as a method to funnel money from taxpayers into a few glitter companies. They play along and everyone makes money.
This passes the- "Why is it a Secret", "Why it can be a secret", and "Why they buy so much".
Proceeds to have 40 pages
I'm good enough with a knife, that I use a knife hone daily.
Still took 2-3x longer than suggested. Not sure if I can blame the user.
Expensive and the recipes took 2-3x longer than it says on the box.
Delicious food, but there was no leftovers. We finished the food and were still hungry. Cannot fathom using them as a meal provider.
The only thing I learned is that roasted beats and carrots are delicious. Don't need Blue Apron anymore.
Why is there a cult following when fraud and employee abuse is common?
Amazon claimed we didn't have enough programmers, but the reality is that most of our programmers are picked up by automotive companies. There is talent, but they are already high in demand.
If amazon admitted they didn't want to exceed our 6 figure salaries, the response would have been better. Instead I see Amazon as an increasingly crony company.
No one is loyal to Google. Apple fanboys have a double standard that I don't understand, maybe its a social club.
However, this isnt true for every engineer, every degree, or every college. And- Did I really need to pay 40k to learn math really well?
My engineering job + coworkers were significantly better than college as far as increasing my ability to be an engineer.
Even one of the most valuable degrees, I'm starting to become skeptical of its value.
One is logic, the other is applied.