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Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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If you had the power to choose when to be born, you might also have the power to choose where to be born. In which case you might want to choose someplace other than the U.S.

There are few better places for social mobility than the US. If you are poor, but smart and ambitious, being in the US is the best thing that could happen to you.

Denmark. Consistently tops ease of doing buisness and social mobility charts.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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The alt-text "The User's Avatar" is worse for accessibility than an _empty_ alt-text (not no alt-text, empty alt text). Alt-text is to describe non-decorative images that add meaning. The parent commenter is correct on how you would implement accessible alt-text here. In the top, your avatar is meant to to represent a link to your profile. That needs an alt attribute. The alt attribute should be the current user's na…

I see, thank you, I'll change them then.

No problem! Alt text is super confusing if you don't do it often, and there's a lot of untrue assumptions out there about it :)

I highly recommend this page by WebAIM on it: https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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I see, thank you, I'll change them then.

No problem! Alt text is super confusing if you don't do it often, and there's a lot of untrue assumptions out there about it :) I highly recommend this page by WebAIM on it: https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/

This is extremely useful, thank you!

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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My first reaction when I read the title was to complete the sentence in my mind: “…and it sucks”. But I'm very glad I was wrong in my scepticism. This is freaking amazing on so many levels. Edit: It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited about a project. Now I can’t work just thinking of taking a month off to play with this thing :)

Do it! What would you build if you take a month off?

Not OP, but I wouldn't currently be able to build much of use, so I'll probably be busy learning.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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There are few better places for social mobility than the US. If you are poor, but smart and ambitious, being in the US is the best thing that could happen to you.

Denmark. Consistently tops ease of doing buisness and social mobility charts.

I used to live in Denmark. Ease of doing business -- well, there are good things (streamlined and transparent bureacracy) and there are bad things (taxes make you uncompetitive, especially if you plan to hire people). Access to capital -- can't even compare.

Regarding social mobility -- well, you can live a good life in Denmark, but living great life is different. Janteloven is still very much a thing.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Do it! What would you build if you take a month off?

Not OP, but I would build a better CRM. The present solutions are far from intelligent.

I am also very interested in this. Mind sharing some of your ideas?

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Denmark. Consistently tops ease of doing buisness and social mobility charts.

I used to live in Denmark. Ease of doing business -- well, there are good things (streamlined and transparent bureacracy) and there are bad things (taxes make you uncompetitive, especially if you plan to hire people). Access to capital -- can't even compare. Regarding social mobility -- well, you can live a good life in Denmark, but living great life is different. Janteloven is still very much a thing.

That's not what social mobility means. Social mobility is the relationship between the wealth of parents and the (eventual) wealth of children.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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The DA14683 is fantastic. I played a bit with an eval. board and it's really good for it's price vs. features (~$3 for 250 pcs. at Mouser). But soon the idea of releasing code for it as Open Source faded away, since you need to sign an SLA ( https://support.dialog-semiconductor.com/connectivity/reques... ), that limits the way source code based on their in SDK is released (only to your customer, in an only “need to k…

Removed SDK files at request of Dialog Semiconductor

https://github.com/S-March/smarchWatch_PUBLIC/commit/12b4ad3...

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