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Re:Designing Hardware for the Internet of Things by mwcampbell on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:53PM (#5505665)
> IMHO most real innovation is happening in the space between hw and sw (duino / pi / etc.). The idea that you can call yourself an "innovator" and only know software is quickly becoming quaint.

On what basis do you make this claim? I don't think we've come close to exhausting the space of useful and interesting things that can be done in pure software on general-purpose computers.

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Re:Designing Hardware for the Internet of Things by dccoolgai on Sunday April 07, 2013 @08:00AM (#5506896)
First, "IMHO" means "In my honest opinion"..so I wasn't claiming it as fact. But since you asked, the writing I'm seeing on the wall is a misto of the declining quality of sw startup ideas, the burgeoning of hw startups and the common sense to recognize that we are beating the dead horse of this one mode of sense and actuation a little too long..even PG said that he is looking more into hw (sorry no link).

I'm a software guy; I wish it wasn't true, because it would be a lot more convenient for me - but I'm not going to pretend it isn't happening...I'm learning as much pi/duino/tronics as quickly as I can.

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