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I think the cost honestly killed them. If they would have just bolted a SoC and decent software onto a mostly existing lock, they could have sold the thing for $50 more than a regular lock and still made money.

Their desire to build everything from the ground up is stupid. The physical door lock has been optimized for thousands of years by countless companies. The only way you're gonna make it any better is with new technology, so take a regular lock and bolt ur magic sauce onto it!

All of the serious hackers with resources have a paid mole involved in the embargo discussion mailing list. The most dangerous people already know.

Embargo is simply a way to make sure the huge, rich cloud providers don't have their reputation tarnished at the expense of everyone else. "Stay with bigco, we fix things before everyone finds about it"

Grpc is the future, I'm amazed that nobody seems to be using it. Easy endpoint definitions and code generation in almost every popular language. Much faster than REST and zero boilerplate code. The client libraries even have http baked in so no "controllers" or route mapping to write. It's simply fantastic.

If you run into a language without grpc support you just standup a JSON proxy and pretend it's REST.

The problem is massive. Most people haven't noticed yet but it's only a matter of time. Eventually everyone gets burned at least once and Amazon becomes the new ebay.

They need to get a handle on their supply chain and stop outsourcing so much of their product listings to shady third party sellers. Shady third party sellers go hand-in-hand with fake reviews. Most reputable brands don't want to get their hands dirty with that stuff. It's guys making margin on reselling that have all the skin in the game and most of the incentive to manipulate the system.

I've never gotten a fake from any brick and mortar or online merchant that sells direct. Only places I've gotten fakes and been duped by rampant fake reviews are eBay and Amazon. Once a competitor gets their shit together (I'm betting on Walmart) and has an equally convenient online store, Amazon will be the Myspace of online sales.

People have loyatly to brands but not the company that sells them. If something better comes along I'll switch immediately just like I did years ago with ebay

I don't see a ton of value in this. The main use case mentioned (preventing use of functions with wrong parameter order) can be worked around using the common 'options' object pattern that everyone uses for functions with a lot of parameters already

Still a neat feature I guess, but IMO it's not worth the additional mental overhead of implementing it.

A lot of problems in JS and it's typed derivatives go back to it's 'structural' type system where every object is a key-value collection and objects with the same keys and values are interchangeble.

I really wish the ES standard would just introduce a new variable type that has nominal typing and ditches the prototypical inheritence chain. You could only use it with new code but since transpilation is the norm these days that doesn't matter much

Unless the culture is wildly different than here in the US I don't think it's reasonable to consider private school and nannies as part of "cost of living"... Those are both unnecessary luxuries.

Android phones are not widely used for surveying critical infastructure unlike these drones. The fact that a Chinese product sends data to China is hardly surprising, but US intel is warning that such a thing is dangerous considering what these drones are frequently used for.

And those Android phones are made by companies around the world. Samsung phones send data to South Korea, Hauwei to China, etc... Some Android phones are sold without Google's apps and send nothing to their servers, so you're not really correct on that.

Found the newest marketing hire...

I strongly suspect it's your carrier preventing google from filtering these calls. I have google fi and it filters spam automatically (suspected spam at least disables ringer)

Pretty sad what you have to do to have a chance at getting a job these days. Is there any proof that this gets better employees? I haven't seen a shred of real scientific evidence. Is it anything more than corporate hazing?

You have to think that for each person hired probably 100 others spent months of their life preparing for the interview. What a massive waste of human effort.

Haha this is exactly how I pictured it working! Made by the makers of express too.

Express is ripe to be replaced. It has the weirdest syntax I've ever seen and is basically designed around call back hell.

I can't wait till somebody rebuilds it in Typescript or at least around async

Are you sure they didn't use UDP? It seems like the kernel flow control in TCP would interact badly with LEDBAT