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when people look over my coworkers shoulder and see his 23K HN point count at the top of his screen, they acknowledge hes calling the shots in code reviews.
Are you serious? This sounds like an awful workplace.
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> Stop buying smart bulbs. I must confess when I read statements like that I am inclined to do precisely the opposite. My favorite comments on HN are those expressed with less preaching and more reason.
It was a rant for sure - and obviously I shouldn’t care what others do, but the smart bulbs seem to have limited the market for what we really need which is the smart switch. One of the reasons I hate them is when you e.g enter an AirBnb and find the switches taped and a manual for how to switch on the lights using your phone. This really is a thing.
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Yeah, it would be. You want the user to stick their hand up in a lamp, with the power on? And try to poke a button with a sharp metal object? I suppose you could add a big capacitor or battery so that it could be reset when not in the lamp, but that is non-trivial.
Perhaps you could use an on/off switch, and do something like this. function power_on() { bool sw_pos_last = eeprom_read(SWITCH_LASTBOOT); bool sw_pos_now = input_read(SWITCH); if (sw_pos_last != sw_pos_now) { eeprom_write(SWITCH_LASTBOOT, sw_pos_now); factory_reset(); } } To reset, simply turn it off, press the switch, turn it on, done! No power is needed to latch a reset request when the bulb is disconnected. Seems…