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KirstenK
Member Since: May 30, 2012
Country: United States
In honor of Manufacturing Day 2014 (Friday, October 3rd) - We take a look at how SparkFun puts a dozen or so new products on the website each week.
If you are entering the autonomous vehicle competition (AVC) for the first time, this information from last year's participants may help you get started.
Web browsers are similar enough to each other that it doesn’t matter which one you use. Or does it?
In this post, we’ll share the results of the survey, our plans to make some necessary improvements, and the reasons we decided not to make others.
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I can guess, but why do you "...avoid Windows as much as [you] can?"
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Thanks all for your thoughts on this! I did a really quick tally of the results. Note that I upvoted tycen's comment pasted below because this is not a scientific survey ;o)
your experienced customers (and the ones that hang out and comment) went the headerless route
46% - Headers (in the “bag” but not soldered on)
21% - Both options available (headers and no headers)
15% - Headers (soldered on)
13% - No headers
5% - No headers (but provide selection of header options)
Note that quite a few commenters conceded that addressing this issue would include some tough business decisions. Just the same, it was great to hear all of your feedback.
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Perhaps it is because it is harder to find the right headers on our site than we would like.
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Yes, documentation is critically important to SparkFun - exceptional documentation in particular - and is one of the reasons we are on the map. But my take on having an attitude (or a sense of humor) about aspects of our jobs that can be drudgery is different. Documentation is a necessary and a good engineer knows that and has the discipline to spend a fifth of their time on it, but if they personally do not find it fun, I am okay with that. And if they cope with it by having a sense of humor about it, all the better. Success requires discipline. But disciplined work does not necessarily have to be enjoyed.
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Thanks for the comment (and the compliment). A couple of people on this end also questioned whether to leave the expletive in Mike's graphic. I said, "I will take the heat." The fact that you made a comment implies that there were probably others that were taken aback as well, so I wouldn't do it again. I kept it in because I found it more authentic. The fact that I have a teenager and given the language in popular culture these days - I guess I have become a bit numb.
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Oops - that was my bad, I made the fix. Thank you!
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Great observation. We do have deadlines - especially for the core aspects of our jobs - perhaps not so much for our side projects. For example, I have to get a report out on the same day at roughly the same time each week. In fact a lot of the "launch work" is on a weekly deadline basis. I know Engineering has and discusses deadlines, too, as does Inventory, but theirs are much more complex. Thanks!
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Karl, OMG! Funny - you are right about the magnifying glass! My bad, I used Snagit to grab and size the photo. Here is the original image from Juan
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Great catch Spec. Trevor here at SparkFun just let me know as well...I am going to fix in the text now. Thank you.
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ChrisBob, Okay, last 90 days, those using Safari: Desktop/Mac 47%; Mobile/iOS 53%. As for Apple visits, last 90 days: 64% Mac; 36% Mobile (of that: 56% iPad, 42% iPhone, and 2% iPod (!?). Thanks!
