Their engineering/status update bogs were really interesting. Particularly injection mold issues and RFID/NFC standards.
And I agree, the build quality is really nice - just wish they sold the screen protector during the kickstarter - I have the silicon protector and wifi dev board but my LCD screen is scuffed from carrying it around in my pocket.
Nature is advanced technology. Look at the trillions of micro-machines that operate inside of us - we're full of nano-bots. Obviously I'm taking liberty with the terms machines and bots, but ever since I started thinking about nature as technology it's made me appreciate even the dullest looking moss, a tiny ant carrying a crumb or weeds sprouting between cracks in the pavement.
If anything, the smaller an organism, the more it can take advantage of Van der Waals force, static, bioelectromagnetics.
Slightly related to the article, I watched a jumping spider crawling on my bench jump off the edge and curve its trajectory to land on my stainless steel dishwasher which was to the right of its initial jumping arc - I wonder if it was able to use the hairs on its body to create a static response or even as control surfaces.
We have spines that expire far before we do, knees that make most enterprise design-by-committee solutions look simple in comparison, and a passage where the food and air goes through.
We also have heads so big they often cause pregnancy complications and hips that don't go wide enough for those heads to pass through (you can attack this problem from either side).
I guess the cherry on top is incompatible long-/short-term mating preferences that lead to devastating consequences for ourselves and our kids.
Nature might be advanced technology but wow it sure makes suboptimal choices and often. You can retort saying nature doesn't have mind but then you probably shouldn't call it advanced tech which ipso facto requires purpose & plan.
> Nature might be advanced technology but wow it sure makes suboptimal choices and often.
When it comes to suboptimal choices based only on path dependence and institutional intertia, nature has nothing on humanity's computing infrastructure. :P
In fairness to Atlassian I work for a charity and we get to use their products for next to nothing and I've found Jira to be a valuable project management tool.
My experience is that dev's have...mixed feelings about it because it can get in the way of "actual work" but only a few of those dev's are as good and organised as they think they are. The rest it's like herding cats and without Jira or an equivalent they'd be churning out dogshit.
It’s interesting that as a dev my feeling about PM’s is more or less the same. Transforming the garbage in Jira tickets into something resembling a product is a challenge.
While others have said it's an Australian thing, to give an example a popular Sydney based pub-brewery down the street from me has the rule "No Dicks!" on their wall and it really works. Always a friendly place to be, the people genuine and a sense of community.
Swearing, when used properly, punctuates an otherwise boring corporate message.
Would be an interesting situation if someone bricked a large chunk of internet connected TV's. It would possibly drive the mainstream population towards greater internet security.
The federal opposition could one-up them and carry in a PV panel and battery cell claiming it and the light reflecting from Minister Dutton's head is the key to our future (the latter part only if they want to channel Paul Keating's spite).
And I agree, the build quality is really nice - just wish they sold the screen protector during the kickstarter - I have the silicon protector and wifi dev board but my LCD screen is scuffed from carrying it around in my pocket.