msprague's comments

OBD-II just standardizes the connection port, meaning that you can plug in the device, but not all cars support the same information and features. Most of them do, but I'm sure that the guys over at Automatic don't want to sell someone a product that isn't supported or tested for their vehicle.

Hey Mojoe!

It's great that someone is finally doing this! Which company are you founding? Is it Fleetio or Automatic or something else? I've been trying to make a prototype of something similar to this using a raspberry pi and an OBD-II interface. Regardless, I've been kicking this idea around for some time so I'll toss a couple ideas at you that I've come up with.

-Environmental footprint/impact. OBDII offers emissions information (I think) and you could do some really cool "green" stuff with it if you wanted to go that direction.

-Could you make an easy-to-use API for the device and sell it to developers? This could be profitable, but might create competition for you...

-Online car problem troubleshooting? Upload the error code and specific car information to your site, and you can diagnose the car without having to pay for an expensive mechanic to look at it right away. (Kind of like bargl's idea)

-Assuming it could interface with a mobile device, you could mount a tablet in your car and display realtime information

-Reminders such as oil change or similar maintenance

Except torque is only for car enthusiasts, and it looks like the general population would have use for this.

Please do! I'd love to see it!

As far as tabs go, if I need organization I have multiple windows of Chrome open with different tabs across different work spaces on my Macbook, and I can just three finger swipe between them.

Usually, I have one window open with a bunch of relevant iOS dev tabs (Apple Docs / stack overflow threads) in the space with XCode and Simulator, and another window open with my email / work-related tabs open just a three-finger swipe away.

Also, does anyone else find that giant banner "A new kind of magazine for thoughtful shoppers." a bit intrusive?

Also MySpace was a failure?? It sold for $500 Million. Ask Tom Anderson what he thinks about it.

Because of the concept I didn't think originally that it was satire. It's not a terrible idea and I could definitely see people using it. My first though was, "Hah, that's kind of a good idea!". Then I actually started looking at web page and it became apparent.

This is awesome. Took me a little while to realize that this was satire... I made the mistake of clicking on the video tab.

Sorry to steal your karma! I just saw this and got too excited

Looks pretty cool:

Syllabus:

Introduction and Quickstart Tools: VMs, IAAS/PAAS, Unix Command Line, Text Editors, DCVS Frontend: HTML/CSS/JS, Wireframing, Market Research Backend: SSJS, Databases, Frameworks, Data Pipelines APIs: Client-side templating, HTTP, SOA/REST/JSON, API as BizDev Devops: Testing, Deployment, CI, Monitoring, Performance Dev Scaling: DRY, Reading/Reviewing/Documenting Code, Parallelizing Founding: Conception, Composition, Capitalization Business Scaling: Promotion, CAC/LTV/Funnel, Regulation, Accounting Summary and Demo Week

This is usually how I learn also. I find it works extremely effectively if instead of working on your own standalone project, you contribute to another project that already has best practices. That way, you can read through the source code and learn some of the conventions that are used in that language.

I don't think he has a specific "model" for his "predictions". Reading his recent article, he uses statistics and weights informations gathered by polls to determine the probability of each candidate winning per state. You can't really be "wrong" in that sense, but the actual result can vary due to statistical sampling error, polling error, or bias in the polls.

Source: fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nov-2-for-romney-to-win-state-polls-must-be-statistically-biased

Since when does popularity substantially determine share valuation?

Pictures http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_pictures.ht...

The only problem with this is that since it's a static library you need to make sure it's bug free before using it in your project. I would imagine it would be difficult to debug in your project...

This seems awesome, but I'm not sure why they would need a kickstarter project. With the people interviewed in this video, it seems like they would have no problem getting the funding that they needed. The reason in the video is that so they could "get it to developers as fast as possible", but I'm not sure how kickstarter would help speed the development process to get it an SDK released any sooner than if it was funded a more traditional way.

Yeah, I agree with this. I've been asked a similar problem to the gas pump one and a brain teaser one as well. The goal for them is to be able to get a better feel for how you deal with the problems, not necessarily the solutions that you come up and how accurate they are. Being a dick to an interviewer (as basically suggested in comments above) is great if you like being unemployed.

I don't enjoy playing it anymore and I uninstalled it as soon as it gave me a notification that was ad-related. That's way too obtrusive.