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This is a great response. I would add that this is how any larger project gets evaluated and prioritized. In smaller companies, especially startups, I have seen the friction show u…

I agree with this. I want to add a product perspective here too. If your product partner routinely tries to understand your suggestions and translate them into the things that matt…

This is one of the worst attempts to handle a corporate dispute that I have ever seen. Forget all of the he said he said arguments for a second and see what a random person who dec…

I wouldn't ask HN. I would go ask consumers and businesses to find out who has the problem. Then I would go with whichever group actually has the problem. If neither of them have t…

Would love to get some feedback on this post. I am trying to figure out what kind of information people find most helpful.

If it looks like it is going to be weird, I try to ask people if they are a hand-shaker or a hugger. I am cool with whatever makes them comfortable.

I would be interested too.

You are right, ADHD is not a real disease. It is a real disorder. It sounds like you need JFDI. If you don't like something, change it. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/1…

I would like to point out that systems that control physical equipment frequently fall into the domain of electrical engineering as much as they do software.

I think this is a mis characterization. Mechanical engineering is a much older, much more mature field than computer science/software engineering. As a field of engineering study m…

I think there would be better ways to monetize than that. You could drive massive traffic here if it was collaborative instead of host and customer.

Straight up guys, this feels like the next great social network. Think technical chat roulette, but the people have stored their qualifications and interests so an algorithm can ch…

1 on 1 conversations or mentoring is the absolute best. Last year, I taught a guy a little bit of EE in exchange for him looking at the Java I was teaching myself and adding commen…

I agree that Japan is ahead, but seriously, who gives a crap if every other person in Italy has two cell phone subscriptions? Thats retarded.

Obviously, this question would be a lot different if I were in SFBA or elsewhere, but I am in the heartland. I am not a former CS (studied hardware, EE) student, so my college netw…

Startup.

There are a few EE's lurking around here, myself included. Can you elaborate on what you are trying to build?

If you just have a proposal, I think it is going to be tough to attract the right talent. I am not necessarily a hacker (or maybe I am, who freaking knows), but I am taking that ro…

120 Hz is ambiguous. Are you referring to the display refresh speed? Was the discussion in the context of a specific physical display technology?

Excellent point. You could toss in assembly as yet another choice for the very highly constrained environment (very cheap microcontrollers, although many now have abstractions so y…

Nice post. I think I would have a hard time pulling the trigger so quickly after meeting someone, but it sounds like serendipity.

The UV light is completely hilarious. It would be far more effective in a UV container.