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Terrific writeup. Massive congrats to the whole team for all that creative thinking in flight and all that was achieved. (Add a note about updating FPGA's in space!) Looking forward to team Bedo unlocking VLEO for everyone.


This Serum release significantly exceeds Vital's feature set. Vital is awesome but the developer hasn't been working on it for a while (maybe they'll return).



If you want an out of the box USB spinner solution, check T-Sticks' USB spinners: https://thunderstickstudio.com/collections/spinners


That's some nice looking hardware.

I need to find more resources for robust buttons, switches and knobs for building instruments for disabled musicians using the Instrument Maker framework. (https://instrumentmaker.org/)

The look and feel of these instruments it incredibly important for artistic performance, and we're hoping to find off-the-shelf options for various buttons/switches rather than fabricating our own.


Check out Optery (YC Alum) removes ~250 data brokers (continuously). https://www.optery.com


a) awesome. b) please increase the default font size of that doc. c) please consider moving the exposition to the end and just jump into the good stuff about how it works and what's different. Perhaps a short intro like "Texti is modern markup. Think Markdown and Wikimedia markup had a baby. Here's how to do all the things..."


Thanks. Note this text is not a commercial or ad. My philosophy is function over form wins. Period. Comments and critique always welcome. If I may return the favor - do NOT use the word modern - as in say 5 or 10 years - that may read different. Do NOT upcase markdown - it is today a generic term / word. The had a baby "idea" is stupid. The idea is about evolution and adding AND yes, deleting and forever changing and so on. Anyways, here's the source (w/ public domain - no rights reserved dedication) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/texti/texti.github.io/mast... you are more than welcome to publish your own teaser / promo / analysis / opinion.


For patents on physical things/devices, he's giving very good advice. You need to file within the 1st year you've used the item in commerce.

The internet is littered with great products that weren't patented, then copied (sometimes by their overseas contract manufacturer itself just running a 2nd shift on the production line).

If you don't have global patent protection, you find yourself competing with your own product sold cheaper by someone else and no way to fight it. Super common problem for popular products.


Fair enough, that makes sense, maybe it's just my being allergic to legal combativeness.


Um, really? Why are unicorns like Shopify or Github are still using Rails if that's the norm?


The same reason Facebook uses php: that's what they started with and it's prohibitively complex, expensive and risky to change at their scale.


Shopify is not a unicorn...sorry for nitpicking. Its a publicly traded company worth 210 billion dollars. It used to be a unicorn a long time ago.


Now that I think of it, are there any major startups launched post Rails glory days? Some time around and before Rails 4.0, so 2013.

Almost all the major former startups that I could find are from 2010 or earlier.


Depends on your definition of major. For a company to become a unicorn it usually takes 7 years (not sure on the number but it keeps changing). So many companies formed in 2015,16...+ aren't there still. Looking in Linkedin for Rails jobs there are a lot, not all of them are old companies. Gitlab is a very famous name(2014) but it too IPO'ed so it's not a startup anymore.


Gitlab definitely counts ;-)


The scrolljacking on your site makes it nearly impossible to read. Please ask your web team to find a native scroll friendly solution.


Could you elaborate? You mean how animations are tied to scrollevents? (our web team might be influenced by the apple landing page...)


It's style over function. With Apple, everyone already knows what it does. I would concentrate on explaining what it does.

You're targeting devs, we hate this stuff :). What I like is markdown based, VSCode based, open source, alternative to Confluence for tech teams. Make that clear.


Got it. Yeah this was something that was subject to internal soul searching. The landing page for Dendron was our wiki for the majority of its existence -> https://wiki.dendron.so/ We hired a design firm to make it pop but then went too far in the other direction. When we have cycles, we'll take another stab at finding a happy medium.


If it helps, skip to section 6 for the conclusions (spoiler: Angels are). The section you've quoted is academic signaling (in 'entrepreneurship research') to context and differentiate this paper from other research and entrepreneurship books/papers. And yes, I strongly agree with you: perhaps someday academia will embrace plain English and real hyperlinks.


And, in the fields which make heavy use of mathematical abstractions, “open-source” proofs written in a language amenable to automated proof assistants.


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