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aerosuch

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About aerosuch

Hi, I'm Nick Such. I used to build solar powered cars at the University of Kentucky. Now I help aspiring entrepreneurs and coders to take their first steps with Awesome Inc. Slowly moving from atoms to bits and back.

https://www.awesomeinc.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nicksuch; my proof: https://keybase.io/nicksuch/sigs/EDT11BWW46rTMhzm4tJOc4zZ7fs_FcS2kLFc0oKAmJY ]

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    This is pretty sweet. Demo video really helps to explain the concept. It's like what I imagined my friends and I doing while playing Rockband...if we were talented enough to play r…

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    It's like having a quality community of commenters...everywhere. And the TechCrunch setup is really cool. Nice work!

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    Here's that link: https://www.udemy.com/basic-web-crash-course/?couponCode=sho...

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    A place to send your friends when they ask for "help making a website"

    My company does in-person training to help non-technical people do technical things. We recorded one of our classes called "Basic Web Development". If any of your non-programmer fr…

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    Just published a new iPhone app dev tutorial, meant for absolute beginners. Covers Xcode basics, some Objective-C, and making a simple app. Looking for honest feedback. This is one…

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    Still working on this course about Jekyll (the static site generator) and GitHub Pages. Here's a free registration code if anyone's willing to review and give me some feedback! htt…

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    According to the state ruling, the "device" in question is an "I phone" https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408509-massachusetts... It uses some technology (circa 1978) called …

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    Yes, we can live without indoor maps, but we're suffering through a lot of inefficiencies just because we don't know yet that there's a better option. I want indoor maps because th…

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    Comment #3809010

    Different business model? Google caters to highest-bidder advertisers. PointInside works more directly with building owners, like retailers: http://www.pointinside.com/blog/2011/12…

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    Good question. This is why a more transparent indoor mapping process could breed innovation (a standard format) and better curation (allowing users to find and fix incorrect floor …

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    While the technology for making indoor map content (georeferencing a floor plan) is already widely available, most smartphones do a very poor job of positioning themselves indoors.…

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    Data access/usability vs. security/privacy is a worthy concern for building data. I think we will see a designation made based on level of detail. Blueprints (with details about st…

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    Have you seen Aisle411 for retail stores? They have some crowdsourced information (aisles in which products are located), which might be easier to maintain than more granular (exac…

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    Julian - just listened to your question from SXSW last year. I was part of another discussion on indoor maps this year: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100110 One of …

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    Plus you get to hang out with Andy Van Dam http://www.cs.brown.edu/~avd/

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    I think the 360 Pano guys have a potential solution for the update challenge: http://www.occipital.com/360/verse I'm curious what long-term incentive would be for updates, though.

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    Comment #3160684

    There are a few startups working on the Indoor Navigation part: http://www.qubulus.com/2011/06/07/the-indoor-positioning-mar...

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    LexKY in the house! Our team just got back from Betaspring, we have come a long way since our early days hacking with the NUIGroup / CCV tools: http://nuicode.com/projects/tbeta We…

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    Thanks for the mention @jadedoto. You're correct, we're not running Android on our screens, but there is an Android port for MT4j, the Java multitouch framework we use: http://www.…

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