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_aarti

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    Comment #16052192

    They chose to do it their way and not make incremental improvements. It's America - Land of dreams - right?

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    Comment #16050595

    Right, and I would agree with you - we had outside consultants who worked alongside us, in iOS, in Firmware, in Cloud, in EE, in Security. We all worked as a team to put the last f…

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    Comment #16050541

    I mean - I don't know - this is the tech mecca of the world. If these VC's and Engineers don't have vision/mission to go all in, what chances does the rest of the world have to bet…

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    Comment #16050042

    > The whole idea was bullshit from the get-go. The market says otherwise - Amazon is all over this at the moment, so is Nest.

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    Comment #16049744

    The product was built in China on the same lines that build the iPhone with the same detail. Manufacturing quality hardware is capital intensive, Finding people who can support tha…

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    Comment #16049567

    He fought hard to become full time, he came in as a contractor and became full time within a month. He was paid until the last day. The contractors in the engineering team were all…

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    Comment #16049475

    Thank you so much for saying this. The engineering team was literally in tears because they could not ship. We all wanted to ship the product so bad. It hurt.

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    Comment #16049439

    I mean - think about, would you listen to someone who had given 3+ years of blood/sweat to a company and product vs 3 months. The shutdown was mishandled, we all felt the pain. Mos…

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    Comment #16049395

    Thank you, Kevin, for everything you did.

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    Comment #16049336

    Agreed!. They took a chance on hardware Look at all the companies building the same old SAAS products doing the same old stuff and getting tons of investment.

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    Comment #16049301

    The employee never worked on the actual product. He joined as a contractor 1 month before launch to work in the IT department on the website. He had been with the company only 3 mo…

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    Comment #11250859

    There are startups working in this area in SF. I interviewed at one.

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    I made a donation anyway with paypal, much appreciate your work. Also checkout funding from Travis foundation and DuckDuckGo. If you need help with traffic to your site, let me kno…

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    Comment #11130722

    I use it to donate to exercism. It's nice to see other contributions

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    Comment #11130719

    I have trouble with paypal

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    Comment #11130387

    I have used iterm for a long time and I would like to donate to your project. I make all my donations with Patreon, would be great if you could add support for that, if it's not to…

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    Comment #11004887

    I use Lua. It's super light-weight, very easy to get started, and not a lot of ceremony( concise language) and has good integration with C libraries

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    Comment #11004864

    Self-congratulatory and verbose, gratuitous inclusion of algorithm names and references to make it appear more technical than the actual content, plenty of typos and grammar mistak…

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