The first one being AllSeen Alliance [1] supported by Qualcomm, and the second one being Open Interconnect Consortium [2] lead by Intel.

The difference seems that The Thread Group is solely focusing on the network protocol [3] and not a full IoT platform like AllSeen and OIC.

And apparently, Nest thermostats are already running a version (is it the final one?) of the Thread protocol.

[1] https://allseenalliance.org/

[2] http://www.openinterconnect.org/

[3] http://www.threadgroup.org/Technology.aspx

Could not agree more! Even if this is not easy to achieve you always need to repeat that KISS motto in your head while looking through the viewfinder. I believe so much in this principle that this great quote from Charles Mingus is the first sentence of my artist statement [1]: "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity". And the photographer author of that article nailed it when she wrote: "Minimalist photography attempts to explore how much information can be taken away from a composition, before it loses its impact".

[1] http://www.jeffmerlet.com/resume

I also like this quote from Antoine de Saint Exupéry: "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher", which can be translated as: "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away".

I feel that way about code too. I love getting rid of stuff that's overly complex or unnecessary without compromising useful functionality.

- no index on the db with even more reads than writes

- duplicating full data set to handle offline sync of data between a client and a server

- over 1000 lines of java per source file

Edit: formatting