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Two things that I'm missing: - How do you charge the thing? - Is the sleep tracking automatic or do you have to press a button to start it?
- There's a magnetic connector (like mac boks) that hooks up to USB. It doesn't come with a wall connector, just USB, which is a bit weird.
- It does indeed look like you need to press a button to start tracking sleep.
Wow, this actually looks fantastic. Microsoft has always killed it in the hardware department. Looks like it connects to their cloud service as well. Will probably consider getting one.
Erm, always killed it? Zune, Surface, Lumia?
Do you wear it on the inside of your wrist? Otherwise wouldn't the display be sideways?
It looks like the display is meant to be facing outward from the bottom side of your wrist (i.e., down, if you put out your arms straight in front of you). A lot of the videos show people just flipping their wrist around to correctly orient the display. It's a little unusual but doesn't really seem like it'd be any sort of issue to me. My only concern would be scratching the display.
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No, since Linux & FreeBSD are license free they have intrinsic advantages over Microsoft.
Yet we see that StackOverflow is fast and scaling really well with demand while Reddit still has load issues after seven years.
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Have the batteries progressed enough that this kind of charging is no longer a problem? (I am talking about memory effect)
Almost all Li(Ion|Poly|FePO) batteries currently don't have “memory effect” when you charge them repeatedly. The only problem happens when you drain the battery below minimum voltage, then it will lose its capacity.
There is a lot to be desired from current battery technology.
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Thanks for the congrats! Our software was completely written from the ground up. We started with an empty main.c file. :) A number of us lead software engineers are on hacker news and we all love the latest programming languages. We got a bunch of really super cool stuff in here, but all in straight C and running in very little memory space. We're dying to start an engineering blog, we believe some of the lessons we…
Must have been very cool to be bit-saving and over-optimizing in our "era of plenty". Almost nobody cares about a couple extra MB nowadays. And starting from a blank main.c? Gutsy. I hope you get your dev blog approved :)
Megabytes? That'd have been nice! :)
This kind of device might get a good reception among, say, men in their 50s. But presbyopia[1] presents some challenges that younger engineers & designers might not think about. If a guy has reading glasses, but (as is likely) doesn't wear them while exercising, then a Band with small characters is pretty much a non-starter for him, even though it looks perfectly readable to a 30-year-old.
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Reddit has rather more complex database queries than StackOverflow so that's not really apples to apples
Genuinely curious as to how you came to that conclusion.From the outside looking in, they both look like they would serve similar queries. On top of that, SO's search feature is (IMHO) loads better than Reddit's.