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Sorry to hear that. I want to add a side note on this for people considering a mortgage. We never think about the fact that your mortgage could be sold to another company when going for a mortgage. So unless you get the mortgage from one of the big guns like wells fargo etc, there is a good chance that the "smaller" mortgage firm that gave you a great rate will repackage your mortgage and wash their hands off it. This can throw things off for you as you are left to deal with a new company who can impose their shitty policies on you and you didn't even choose them.
Same here, but replace 6 with 5.
Valid point, to avoid this trap I did a modest amount of initial market research and realized a lot of people were having problems with my competitor's offerings and were actively looking for alternative solutions.

I set out to test this as quickly as I could and just kept going at it when I verified they were willing to backup their frustrations with their creditcard.
Yes, a robot that can jump on top of a building in 1 jump sounds more useful to me, something like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b4ZZQkcNEo&t=0m14s .
I agree with this being frustrating. I had to explain to so many people that even though my watch doesn't have a SIM card, integrated 4G, GPS or a memory card slot for music it is still exactly what I wanted. Pebble watches do what smart watches should do, without trying to be a tiny phone on your wrist.

I guess I can only dream, but I hope they some day open up parts of it so that the phone app can continue working even with changes to Android/IOS down the line (if Fitbit doesn't want to keep the old Pebbles alive).

But with that said, a smart watch makes me feel hyper-connected. Putting it in quiet mode (and/or taking it off my wrist) every now and then is liberating and definitely makes me more productive.
I was able to run this on Firefox Developer Edition on linux.
When you start looking at the world with that kind of bleakness, it makes it hard to gain empathy for the people who use the things you build.

What you don't see on the other side is the guy using your software that was just stuck in a traffic jam for an hour, or hasn't had a solid night of sleep in three weeks due to his newborn, etc. The last thing they want to do is sit down and learn how to use your software that so-and-so from that other department insisted be rolled out across the company.

You have to excuse your customers for not learning things in earnest. It's part of your job to make that as easy as possible for them.
> Pebble devices will continue to work as normal. No immediate changes to the Pebble user experience will happen at this time.
> Pebble functionality or service quality may be reduced in the future.

That's very unfortunate. How much of Pebble relies on some online service? Is it still possible to install apps/updates without their infrastructure?

For companies that don't open source their stuff by default, it would be so nice if there was some kind of escrow service where upon dissolution of the company (sale, bankruptcy, etc) the required software to keep their hardware going would be released. I suspect the problem is while it's a win for consumers, not enough would care: the mass market is not going to only buy products that have this escrow service, and at the same time, it's handcuffs for the business, likely complicating a sale or liquidation of the company, and possibly turning investors off.

I hope the Pebble doesn't become a complete wristbrick, but it's always a shame to see perfectly good hardware crippled because there's no longer a piece of software running entirely outside the consumer's control.
Looks like they took it down -- archive.org found it again at http://esonlineenu.startpractice.com/

It's very concerning to me that they didn't include screenshots of this simulation site in their report. The pages and pages of data are meaningless without knowing what they were actually measuring.
you could compare it with this java source: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shiro/branches/2.0-api-desig...
Software project budgeting is more than estimating
> People have learned that you can simply strip that part out of the address... it's in the standard.

I'll take "Common RFC 821/2321/5321 myths" for $300, please.

RFC 5322 and RFC 5321 are very emphatic that the local part has no semantics whatsoever except those given to it by the MTA. There is no semantics for what "+" means in the standards.
> Active Pebble watches will work normally for now. Functionality or service quality may be reduced down the road. We don’t expect to release regular software updates or new Pebble features.

I hope they open source Pebble OS, maybe even the assets that drive the Pebble store.
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FitBit bought just their software assets for under $40 million. In 2015, Citizen offered to buy the whole company for $740 million.

FitBit did not acquire their $24 million in debt or any physical asserts. They offered jobs to 40% of the staff.
They're hardly uniformly pro-Remain, I'd credit the BBC giving Farage far more airtime than any other minor party leader with a large part of the success of Leave.

And anyone reporting what he actually does or says will come across as "anti-Trump".
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> Why is a phone the gold standard for support?

The phone provides a means of contacting a human being who is (more or less) constrained to respond to you in some fashion, rather than being able to simply fail to acknowledge what you say.

Any system that provided contact with a human who actually responded would be satisfactory. Bonus points if the human has the authority to escalate things they THEY (not the irate customer) believe that they need to be escalated.

I'd love to start a company that offered this sort of communication AS A SERVICE. In fact, I could run a very successful business just offering "talk to a human" services for one or two big companies (Google, I'm talking to you). But the problem is how to get the company to cooperate -- it would require "political connections" within a company with poor customer service.
iFixIt does a teardown of the Pebble Time where it seems to have a relatively straightforward construction

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Pebble+Time+Teardown/42382

EDIT: there's also this post on the tech specs on reddit[0]. This looks pretty re-implementable if you're a hardware engineer looking to do something fun. The right component mix seems to have been figured out already.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/wiki/tech_specs
This is tragic; I was waiting on a Time 2, but looks like no longer.

What else is around in this niche now? Are there other relatively cheap, simple smart watches with good battery life that I should be looking at instead?
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What I see is a world that cannot deal with unique situations. I had an issue with fraud on my paypal account. I got refunded, at the same time I got a automatic draft. My account then went negative because it didnt pull from my bank account which is my usual source of funding.

Telling paypal that a mistake had been made and it was their fault they didnt really know what to do. I got passed around 12 times over a few dollars. They basically didnt know how to handle a unique situation. I have similar experience with my bank.

Customer service teams are homoginized to only deal with volume, they are never trained on how to solve problems.

These automation issues just let that same system float to the top.
I think much of the problem with FactoryFactories is naming them FactoryFactories. We don't call processes 'ProgramCounterContextCollections'. The pattern isn't bad, in fact flavors of it (if you squint) are used regularly even in low-level C systems code.
Not the seller but the affiliate, surely?
I wish, more like some weird amalgamation of other websites blended together with my caffeine trips and sleep deprivation. I once heard good artists borrow, great artists steal
Firmware can be reversed, and as for the hardware, I suppose the teardowns iFixit did should be enough for a competent hardware engineer to replicate the design.
I'm suprised someone hasen't sued them. Yes--I'm sure holding your money hostage, without any interest, is buried in the TOS, but I couldn't find it. They once held my money 22 days.

(And I haven't used PayPal as a seller since that incident. PayPal could destroy all competition, if they just had talent, with an iron fist, higher up. Oh yea, if you ever run into a Customer Service Rep who just doesn't want to do their job, hang up, and redial. Their customer service is hit, or miss.)
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What is that quote about how every application will eventually implement user-to-user messaging? Can't find it out there :P
> Engineers often talk about technical debt as if the codebase is the currency of the realm. It's not. Business Value is the currency of the realm.

"Technical Debt" is a term that exists largely to communicate the idea that the thing it represents increases the dollar cost of both operating the software to deliver constant business value in a steady state, and of delivering changes to the software to continue to deliver the same value as business needs change or to realize additional opportunities to deliver new value.

It is, absolutely and centrally, about business value; ignoring it in decision-making is exactly like ignoring maintenance/operations costs in a capital purchase and considering only acquisition costs.
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The vast majority of innovations using the Internet here have been to service employers. I think adding more information for employees is a great benefit.
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> is it possible to educate these people to use the current computers[?]

Some can be taught, but not all of them.

There is a significant fraction of the population that simply can't "get" certain concepts in a usable form. These are the same folks that are only capable of solving an algebra problem by rote, don't see the difference between making a word bold & italic and doing it indirectly by applying a custom style, etc.

It is important to note that this doesn't have anything to do with a lack of intelligence. Many smart developers struggle in an analogous way with pointers and pointer arithmetic, for example. Some people's brains just don't easily bend very far in certain directions.
Sure, that's how we think here. But the suits will see it differently.
An oddly interesting mystery. I could imagine a culture deciding that there is some worthy symbolic value in renewal by fire.

In Japan there is the Ise Grand Shrine which is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years since year 692. The design is unique, specified exactly and never changes so it is always both ancient and freshly new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine
This site is blocked by Fortiguard at my workplace, just FYI.
> When this happens, they lock you out of your funds. No warning, no notice, hope you didn't need those funds to pay bills.

Wait, how do they keep someone from accessing their own bank directly? Surely this friend of yours did not keep a balance in their PayPal account. If he actually did that, what was he expecting? A brief search online will tell you that's not a wise thing to do.
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that before. If you go to use the feature it also asks you to re-authenticate so the person would have to know your password as well.
> Second, overwriting the entire visible address space of an SSD twice is usually, but not always, sufficient to sanitize the drive.

Overwrite you whole SSD 10 times I doubt anyone but the most serious attacker can find anything, and even then.
I have a black and white Brother brand laser printer that has been great going on 5 years.
I can't believe this, just got a Pebble 2 a week ago and now they are literally saying it may not work in the future.

If we rely on their cloud services for activity tracking and app downloads then it will be useless if FitBit doesn't maintain the platform.

I have to say I'm really disappointed and this is a huge blow to people that invest in startups offering hardware. If the company fails forget about the smart stuff you bought, it just won't work anymore.

We should look for ways to minimize the impact on backers. Sadly we'll see more of this in a future in which the products depend a lot on the company cloud services to operate.
...What else do they make?
Makes me tempted to equate them to block letter and cursive respectively.
Genuine question, but what is so difficult about reversing a linked list? I don't have the algorithm memorized, but i can deduce in 10 minutes at most.
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I can't open the site on my Android phone due to an SSL error. Is it just me, or there is a problem with the certificate?
The constant capitalizing is very distracting. (I Don't Know How Else One Would Describe This Style.)
I'm surprised by this, Pebble and Fitbit always seemed like upstanding companies. To me, this is a dick move.

They could've said "reach out to Fitbit instead".
To be 100% clear, I totally agree with you that one shouldn't check their text messages while driving.

That being said, the statistics don't support your claim that traffic fatalities have spiked. Through 2014 (the last year the IIHS published statistics) fatalities had either leveled off or continued their historical decline.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...
Well ya, if some VCs aren't open to new investors then LPs must invest with emerging managers. The extent to which top managers will revert to the mean is anyone's guess and years away from an answer.

Why not just call it like it is...VC is really just a people business, there's money involved, but trying to quantify the process at all can be misleading. A VC firm is a small group of people (partners) using their best judgement and experience to find another group of people (founders) worth investing in. That's it, there's a ton of key man risk and there's no secret sauce.

Lowercase and Matt Mazzeo are a great example: VCs are basically just like Hollywood talent agents who get to find the next movie stars and help them along a bit - but in VC they are finding the next big tech founders instead of actors. These are people businesses, numbers can't really capture it but they can distract.

I didn't mean to get into a statistics debate on here. The great thing about VC and startups is everyone gets to be right until they're not :)

Sidenote: I hear you guys are running one the best shops in the space. Congrats on the recent close. Best of luck to you and your portfolio co's.
Sure. I'm just saying it's easier to verify the CA list than verify the hardware, and the hardware gives the OEM a superset of what they can do with the CA list.
I was a Kickstarter backer in 2012 and still have my original Pebble. There was a weird screen issue and I wanted to try other things, so I switched to the Gear 2 Neo which was absolute garbage. Then I moved on to the Moto 360, which also left me very disappointed when somehow the rear glass (the part that rests on your wrist) shattered.

So I went back to Pebble and got the Time Steel about a year ago and it's been flawless. Worked with my Note 4 and later (currently) with my iPhone 6S Plus. It's a shame that they're not going to be around anymore for the next time I get an itch to try something new. When this watch quits I'll probably just go back to my Citizen.
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Even ignoring that substantial problem, dd also tends not to work when the hardware is broken. (And you can't be sure it's sufficiently broken to prevent data recovery.)
I recall them having quite a good SDK ( https://developer.pebble.com ) to write your own apps and run basically whatever you wanted on the thing. I hope you can use the SDK to load apps directly, but I'm not sure.

Hopefully the community can run with this and set something up so people can distribute and install apps outside of the official services.
And screw over countless innocent bystanders in the process?
DoomRL scratches the space marine variety of my crawl itch(crawl as in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: https://crawl.develz.org )
> But after having two hugely successful crowdfunding campaigns, how did they fail?

One could argue having to go continuously go back to that well meant they never gained the market traction they were hoping for.
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I'm a brain injury survivor, I was hit by a driver running a red at >40mph. It's so important to have stories like this out there. It's a condition that is complex, individual and often hard to explain to the people in your life. Beyond the physical tells, my resulting mood disorder became intertwined with concentration problems that seriously inhibited my path to recovery.

I developed a cannabis addiction and when my lawsuit settled virtually everyone I knew, including members of my family, became so jealous of my windfall that my support network disappeared. My depression only deepened. I studied psychology part time in university and slowly recovered. Not working for 5 years though completely turned my group of friends, who also come from a blue collar background, against me. My efforts to wear a smile and share my wealth only tainted things further as they became convinced I was just a lazy lottery winner. People most willing to spend time with me and smoke my weed became the most eager to shame me among others.

I now medicate with the help of a doctor and his drugs work much better. I'm in a supportive relationship and although many people from those days still fail to understand my condition, I've mostly cut them from my life.

I also make art as therapy, I purchased a couple analog synthesizers and get great benefits out of a session of designing and recording sound. It's really a great art form for geeks looking for something outside visual art. You can create very complex signal paths when feeling ambitious or just experiment with some knob twisting and random plugging. Both methods have about the same success rate as far as interesting sound creation goes. Former cannabis users will get great satisfaction as they overcome the problem of music feeling dull outside of intoxication.
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Site seems down here too. I guess the next step is to get wordpress running on a FPGA!
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As a Python programmer who has been dabbling in Rust recently, it still seems a lot more manual to me. Maybe I just need to learn more Rust, but my impression is that as it is a low level language and as such you are expected to think about a lot more things in Rust than Python.
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their business strategy was terrible. -though, their developer support was awesome-

I still wear my time steel and will get my time 2 refund, but I am surely frustrated by how they screwed all it up. They did not open source any core bits, left with crappy update which drains batteries and openly admitted quality will get worse by time.

note-for-future : don't get into hype trains.
Looks like we hugged them to death. Here's the Wayback Machine's most recently cached copy of the page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160604121207/https://www.libero...
And now i am reminded of the TRS-80 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

While not pocket sized, it was a portable computer that would run on 4xAA. And even had a built in modem (300 baud).

BTW i wish i could find a "receipt printer" that didn't cost an arm and a leg, and that didn't require thermal paper.
Whenever this kind of things happens. It will make all the more difficult for startups to acquire users because this reiterates "Startups are either going to be acquired and killed or die prematurely".
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Runtime loading of code by frameworks leads to Factory objects. e.g. database drivers. The only factory factory I know of is in the Spring runtime dependency injection framework.
There are dozens of people on the pictures on the linked pages. You have to sell a lot of $99 watches to pay them all. They say 2 million watches sold; gross margin of - what - $10? $20? Say $40mm margin over the 8 years they mention; staff costs of $5mm/year (50 people, 100k/year including everything - unrealistically low estimate). That doesn't even leave room for other development costs, visits to production factories, returns, everything else. Having done 'a successful crowdfunding campaign' is not an enviable position to be in, most of the time - although of course the vast majority of backers have no experience running a business whatsoever and think 'these guys are sitting on a mountain of money, what can go wrong'.
Idlewords, are you going to add the slideshow to your page as you've done in the past? I always enjoy the slideshows but it's going to be a little while before I have time to watch a 45-minute video, even one poking fun at the AI-riskers (a pasttime dear to my heart)
Doesn't matter whose fault it is. Works on Windows, doesn't on linux. That's all that matters for the user.
This kind of thing is why I know someone who has five Google accounts for different purposes. It's something they make deliberately inconvenient but is the only way to avoid catastrophic spillover.

(Work 1 & G+, Work 2, personal email 1, email 2, Youtube)
The 'problem' is that most SSDs don't necessarily erase data when you 'delete' something.

SSDs have a number of 'tricks' that make them subtly different to hard drives, which include things like:

* Only whole 'segments' of the drive can be 'cleared' at a time, meaning the actual removal of data may not occur until some time after the file is no longer accessible through the file-system

* Often SSDs will have 'over provision' meaning that although your drive is labelled "32Gb", it might have more than that available physically (e.g. https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/overprovisioning). This is used to augment the capacity as areas of the drive degrade over the life of the drive.

See http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/03/ask-ars-how-can-i-sa... for a bit more on this topic.