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by fivedogit 3y ago
Location: USA Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: Yes, to any major US city Technologies: JS, Linux, AWS, blockchain, Three.js (see resume) Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qMnCV
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Ask HN: Is Miami a legit tech/startup city or was that just a meme?
32 points by fivedogit 3y ago|34 comments
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Ask HN: Did you buy Etheria tiles in 2015? You are likely rich
37 points by fivedogit 5y ago|9 comments
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by fivedogit 6y ago
ZZ Top figured this out a long time ago.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Lebron James. I thought for sure he was gonna crash and burn after the absolutely insane hype.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
On the first point, Amazon should strictly prohibit gifting free Vine items to others. It is inherently antithetical. On the second point, no. I don't think it's possible to give free items to people and get honest reviews. The fr
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by fivedogit 6y ago
"non-guitarist Mom of skeptical daughter who didn't want or ask for Thingamagig but 'hey it's free'" is not our market, though. Thus, it is not a valid read on "market reception". Actual market rece
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Early reviews are critical to a product's trajectory. Of course I'm going to get upset about Vine giving my free guitar product to non-guitarists who turn around and leave poor reviews. It's absurd. What do you want to know a
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by fivedogit 6y ago
This blog post was about Amazon Vine. Not Thingamagig.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
I have made dozens of improvements to Thingamagig based on valid user feedback. On the first, am I supposed to improve based on something the user's kids said without trying the product? On the second, what exactly did she complain abo
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by fivedogit 6y ago
I thought about this and it's a good point. Maybe there is a carve-out for folks who can't review on their own - like elder care products or kids toys. But this is not that.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Is "susie" not anonymized enough for you? I blacked out her email address. There's no picture.
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Fuck Amazon Vine(thingamagig.com)
40 points by fivedogit 6y ago|36 comments
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Launch HN: Thingamagig – Alexa-ready, RPi-based, IoT multi-effects processor(thingamagig.com)
3 points by fivedogit 6y ago|0 comments
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by fivedogit 6y ago
July 21st was when I had the "ok I have to pursue this for real" moment and it's been 24/7 coding and tinkering since then. I really need to go for a walk or something.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Give thingamagig a shot. I think you'll find that voice-control is faaaaaar from a gimmick. I have kicked my feet up and lost hours jamming along from track to track. The frictionlessness of it is really something. Also, you seem to kn
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by fivedogit 6y ago
I thought about this too. Multiple choice A, B, C, etc... just play the chord. :) But that's pretty challenging from an engineering standpoint and Alexa skills can't be controlled externally yet. I briefly added a footswitch and c
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by fivedogit 6y ago
(I asked him to email me, he did, now I've removed the address for spam reasons.)
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by fivedogit 6y ago
I became aware of Spark a couple of weeks ago. On the one hand, I was irritated that someone else was on the same "voice-controlled guitar playing" thread as me, but then (a) it's validating and (b) they're not really go
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Sorry if it was short on software details. It's realtime raspbian. Headless ardour (lua implementation). A mix of guitarix and other amp sims. Proprietary cab sim IRs. Various other effects packages like rkr, ardour-native plugins. Per
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by fivedogit 6y ago
I was able to get 48000/256/3 working.
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Guitarix is really, really impressive and I'm eternally grateful, but it is raw. It takes a lot of work to get it to sound the way you want and is inconsistent from sim to sim. However, by having control over the hardware and the sessi
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Why the hate? Do you know of any modeling solution where you can pick up your guitar and play without your hands ever leaving the guitar? Do you know of any modeling solution that will automatically change your guitar tones during playback?
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by fivedogit 6y ago
He's making a subtle point here. There's "do x" vs "Alexa, do x" vs "Alexa, ask AppName to do x" The first is when the skill does a thing and then immediately starts listening again. The blue bar is a
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by fivedogit 6y ago
Yeah good question. Alexa skills don't want to be long-lived so you have to force them to stay open so you're not constantly saying "Alexa ask <app name> to <x>" which, by the way, hardly ever works. With a v
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I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B(thingamagig.com)
233 points by fivedogit 6y ago|66 comments
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by fivedogit 7y ago
Bug report here. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9374
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Profile leak bug in Signal (app)?
10 points by fivedogit 7y ago|1 comments
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by fivedogit 7y ago
Last part didn't format correctly and I couldn't edit. Here it is: Location: Any large tech hub, including those outside the US Remote: No, I want to relocate. Have done so 3x before. Technologies: Java, Spring, Javascri
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by fivedogit 7y ago
I'm primarily an early-stage full stack dev; I do and learn whatever is necessary to ship. But I also have extensive experience in customer-facing, sales-y roles in companies above 200 employees. Most recently, I went fully serverless

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