WHY?

Because we all just want to steal your brilliant idea. How preposterous. Many people on this forum probably have several patentable ideas of their own every day, I know I do. I actually have several patents myself and I am certainly not the only one.

 

Wow, well you just exposed yourself as a trawler looking to steal ideas on forums. You have offered no solution at all to ‘a button to illuminate LED light wirelessly within 2ft’, instead pressed on WHY do you want to do this? Which is none of your business. ‘Ambiguous and open-ended’ is a ridiculous statement to make. Adding ‘There just isn’t enough information for US to help’, who are you talking about? You are not US. Don’t assume you speak for everyone. Then, adding ‘If you expect money on this…’ shouts the reason why you are here in the first place. Finally, ‘Hire a consultant engineer’ which is what you must be. Desperate. Honestly, your contribution to this thread is defunct.

Everyone is a stretch and may I point out you’re the one who brought that up. First, there’s a large group who’ve left this thread because you’ve been uncooperative.

Secondly, there is at least one or two (or more) who agree with Ya’akov that you were too ambiguous and open-ended for a solution to be presented. (I’m one, with whom you’ve ignored). You assume no one has a solution because this free forum has many members who volunteer their time and knowledge only to make money. Not because you’re requirements are ambiguous and open-ended (To be clear, they are).

Thirdly, be sure of your facts when dissing a moderator. Ya’akov is NOT a consulting engineer nor is he desperate. And I know Ya’akov and money is hardly the reason why he’s here. So you’re correct that he doesn’t speak for everyone but he does speak for a finite non-empty set of members

You demanding that knowing why you want to do this shouts back that you are hardly an engineer and likely have little to zilch probability of succeeding. (There are ways of answering without “spilling the beans”, You just can’t think of one.) (BTW, I am only mirroring your attitude)

So, my interest in you and this thread is defunct.

I wish you the best on your project.

 

Wow, well you just exposed yourself as a trawler looking to steal ideas on forums. You have offered no solution at all to ‘a button to illuminate LED light wirelessly within 2ft’, instead pressed on WHY do you want to do this? Which is none of your business. ‘Ambiguous and open-ended’ is a ridiculous statement to make. Adding ‘There just isn’t enough information for US to help’, who are you talking about? You are not US. Don’t assume you speak for everyone. Then, adding ‘If you expect money on this…’ shouts the reason why you are here in the first place. Finally, ‘Hire a consultant engineer’ which is what you must be. Desperate. Honestly, your contribution to this thread is defunct.

Please calm down, you completely misread my post.

Your problem definition could be answered so many ways that it’s basically a matter of guess work to try to help.
If you are not expecting to make money from this, I would never suggest hiring someone. That’s why it was conditional.
For the record, I am not available for you to hire in any case, so that couldn’t be my motivation.

And, not from meanness, but because you seem so unaware of it, your presentation doesn’t suggest that your “idea” would be worth stealing. You might be aware of problem that needs a solution but your (secret) solution is clearly based on not understanding how to apply technology to problems.

This is a common situation. It’s not something “bad” about a person, it’s a matter of circumstances. If you knew enough to do a good job working out a solution you wouldn’t be asking about something as trivial as this “remote button” and you’d understand how to frame the question so it wasn’t able to be answered in a thousand ways.

If a person is not an expert in the technology that they want to apply to a problem, it is inevitably the case that their naïve proposed solution becomes the problem, and the result is a dodgy mess that doesn’t ever work properly and with some luck gets replaced with a properly conceived version that could have been the first pass with the right advice.

The vitriolic response to my sincere wishes of luck and the best advice I can give in this case (and I do mean the best, from many years of experience doing these things) was surprising and of course unpleasant. I hope you can do a little introspection about it and maybe try a different approach in the future.

You want free advice—OK, we do that all the time—but you want people to stumble around in the dark because you think you might make some money from it. Do you see anything less than ideal about that? If you can’t, or don’t want to, explain the problem you are trying to solve then you should either hire someone to work under NDA or not get so outraged when someone declines to squint through the tiny hole in the veil of secrecy you’ve decided you need.

I never proposed, nor would ever accept, a contract to help you with this. But what I can’t understand is why you think it is OK to get so angry with me because I don’t want to try random suggestions so that one of them might “work” for you. Don’t I have a right not to be unpaid labor on your terms?

I still wish you success with your project—whatever it is—and my advice stands as the best advice I can give you considering the information available and my experience. Take it or leave it, I don’t care. I agree with you that there seems little utility in talking to you any further.

By the way, I think you might want to look up the word “defunct”. It doesn’t mean what you seem to think. You’re close but not close enough for it not to seem very strange in that sentence.

 

Please calm down, you completely misread my post.

Your problem definition could be answered so many ways that it’s basically a matter of guess work to try to help.
If you are not expecting to make money from this, I would never suggest hiring someone. That’s why it was conditional.
For the record, I am not available for you to hire in any case, so that couldn’t be my motivation.

And, not from meanness, but because you seem so unaware of it, your presentation doesn’t suggest that your “idea” would be worth stealing. You might be aware of problem that needs a solution but your (secret) solution is clearly based on not understanding how to apply technology to problems.

This is a common situation. It’s not something “bad” about a person, it’s a matter of circumstances. If you knew enough to do a good job working out a solution you wouldn’t be asking about something as trivial as this “remote button” and you’d understand how to frame the question so it wasn’t able to be answered in a thousand ways.

If a person is not an expert in the technology that they want to apply to a problem, it is inevitably the case that their naïve proposed solution becomes the problem, and the result is a dodgy mess that doesn’t ever work properly and with some luck gets replaced with a properly conceived version that could have been the first pass with the right advice.

The vitriolic response to my sincere wishes of luck and the best advice I can give in this case (and I do mean the best, from many years of experience doing these things) was surprising and of course unpleasant. I hope you can do a little introspection about it and maybe try a different approach in the future.

You want free advice—OK, we do that all the time—but you want people to stumble around in the dark because you think you might make some money from it. Do you see anything less than ideal about that? If you can’t, or don’t want to, explain the problem you are trying to solve then you should either hire someone to work under NDA or not get so outraged when someone declines to squint through the tiny hole in the veil of secrecy you’ve decided you need.

I never proposed, nor would ever accept, a contract to help you with this. But what I can’t understand is why you think it is OK to get so angry with me because I don’t want to try random suggestions so that one of them might “work” for you. Don’t I have a right not to be unpaid labor on your terms?

I still wish you success with your project—whatever it is—and my advice stands as the best advice I can give you considering the information available and my experience. Take it or leave it, I don’t care. I agree with you that there seems little utility in talking to you any further.

By the way, I think you might want to look up the word “defunct”. It doesn’t mean what you seem to think. You’re close but not close enough for it not to seem very strange in that sentence.

Ok, I get where you coming from and I apologise for losing my cool. I normally don’t so my bad! You just had my back up the moment you dropped into my thread dissing ‘how’ I posted. It’s condescending and frankly rude. What if I was just a 16-year-old kid? Did you ever stop to consider that? You’re a bully. I realise now reading what you’ve written here that there can be no resolution so I’m out. You compliment on the one hand and insult on the other. I’m gone. I’ll find another forum. I’ll leave you to torment others in the ‘beginners forum’. But know this. If you don’t care about others' feelings and you never ever admit that you are wrong, and if anyone questions your validity you go to extreme lengths to discredit them (as you have done here), it means you’re a Narcissist:

1. Narcissist: “a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.
"narcissists who think the world revolves around them"

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others.

 

Ok, I get where you coming from and I apologise for losing my cool. I normally don’t so my bad! You just had my back up the moment you dropped into my thread dissing ‘how’ I posted. It’s condescending and frankly rude. What if I was just a 16-year-old kid? Did you ever stop to consider that? You’re a bully. I realise now reading what you’ve written here that there can be no resolution so I’m out. You compliment on the one hand and insult on the other. I’m gone. I’ll find another forum. I’ll leave you to torment others in the ‘beginners forum’. But know this. If you don’t care about others' feelings and you never ever admit that you are wrong, and if anyone questions your validity you go to extreme lengths to discredit them (as you have done here), it means you’re a Narcissist:

1. Narcissist: “a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.
"narcissists who think the world revolves around them"

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others.

I wasn't "dissing" your post. I didn't go to "extreme lengths" to discredit you. I said something that is plainly obvious to those of us will longer experience in this than you have, and I made no judgements about your worth as a human being because you don't have to have that experience.

Your accusations are so completely out of line with what actually pertains that I can't even find a place to start. I'm afraid you are right that you will never see me because you've turned me into an archetype which for whatever reason you find useful. Not that I have even the slightest hope of getting through to you, but:

• I always consider the people who I am talking to. It's part of my ethos. I have a great concern for neophytes in particular who are more vulnerable to trouble with those who do somehow get satisfaction from denigrating them. I have actually made it a specific point to find ways to make the environment in help communities more welcoming to newcomers. I have been the community advocate for a large programming language foundation where my rôle was exactly along these lines.
  
  
• I am actually concerned that you had such an adverse reaction to what I said, and I hope to learn from it. I am having a little trouble with the vitriol you are hurling. It tends to obscure what might be useful advice or information. I am human, after all, and while you have accused me of terrible things, not once did I characterize you—I only talked about the content of your posts. So, it is very hard to listen to anything you have to say when it is delivered with direct personal attacks.
  
  
• Not only are you mistaken about the meaning of what I said, but you aren't even willing to consider that idea. I tried to explain what is really going on, but apparently genuine advice and pointing out real errors that have nothing to do with your character, only your current knowledge, are in your view bullying and self-aggrandizement. I don't expect, but still hope, you might reconsider and reexamine my post(s) in light of what I said about them.
  
  
• Lastly, consider your responses to me from my perspective, and contrast them with my messages to you. I think an honest assessment might surprise you. You have repeatedly assassinated my character, how would you expect me to respond to that? Nonetheless, I really haven't taken the bait because it's so outrageous the it either means you are trolling, or you are using me as a punching bag for some frustration you're dealing with. Either way, I can't take it seriously—even if, to be honest, it's hurtful as I have never "grown a thick skin" and still consider the Internet another part of "real life" not something different from it.

So, once again I wish you the best of luck, both in finding a new forum and in your project. My advice to hire help remains the same, it is the right thing to do on several grounds. I will say that although I think it is best that you at least try to find a different place to get help, I don't expect you will be successful. AAC is one of the friendliest and most well balanced forums around.

If it would help, I would be happy to never post in one of your threads again so you don't have to worry about me. I think you can't do better than AAC, and I don't get anything out of giving advice that results in personal attacks. I promise to ignore you, if that's what you want—just say so. You can stay here and get what help is possible.

Let me know if this is good for you, I will happily pretend your threads don't exist and let you get what help others have to offer. I sincerely apologize for not knowing how to approach you in a way that didn't provoke this baffling response. I hope you can forgive that part. Best of luck whatever you choose to do.