markhalonen

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by markhalonen 1mo ago
Was hoping to see procedural functionality like PL/pgSQL... regardless, an astonishing project overall.
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by markhalonen 4mo ago
same. It's brilliant and I pay them nothing. I tell friends and family about it all the time, but I can't seem to convince anyone to use for it every subscription like I do.
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by markhalonen 8mo ago
would be great to block all cookie popups. Pry would need to be a chrome extension
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by markhalonen 1y ago
big discussion was had around this a month ago https://candid9.com/phone-camera/
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by markhalonen 1y ago
Awesome! It's a very simple workflow, here's another video that I don't have on the website for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OctwOpaNoJQ
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by markhalonen 1y ago
Yes one use-case is a gig-economy street photography practice, which does already exist in places like the Brooklyn Bridge, Candid9 makes that easier. Another use-case perhaps in your case is to do it for free and do higher volume and marke
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by markhalonen 1y ago
Right but at the same time, Average Joe will take better photos with a digicam because they'll behave exactly like I did and make the same mistakes, so arguably it's very naive but also an accurate depiction of the average idiot w
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by markhalonen 1y ago
I don't really understand the current street photographers as I don't know how they would ever make money. Basically if you're already a street photographer, then you aren't motivated by money, which the pitch of Candid9
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by markhalonen 1y ago
@throwanem I think I hit the depth limit so replying here. I would be happy to chat about how a street photographer could use Candid9, but do know that I've made plenty of money in other businesses and this is a fun passion project for
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by markhalonen 1y ago
It is true that I was standing closer and using a wide-angle lens with the iPhone. But it wasn't on purpose to tip the scales, I was just taking an iPhone photo as I've done many times. So it would be a fairer comparison to use a
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by markhalonen 1y ago
> What kind of volume are you doing? Most I've done is 60 group photos in an hour at a trade show. > Really, what it looks like to me is just that you have a product that costs ~nothing to operate Correct > and seems like it s
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by markhalonen 1y ago
most hn comment of all time. The whole point of the product is that giving someone a QR code ticket is easier than collecting email or phone number, which makes a big difference at high volume.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
I am the creator of Candid9 and I have taken about 290 photos of strangers and distributed them via candid9 QR codes. Happy to chat about it!
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by markhalonen 1y ago
How do you take a 45mm focal length photo with iPhone?
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by markhalonen 1y ago
I've had passer-bys take group photos with a real camera, no problem. What issues do you run into?
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by markhalonen 1y ago
which lens on my iPhone? Just the camera app like everyone else. For the good photo, it's a 30mm lens on Sony a6400 (45mm equivalent)
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by markhalonen 1y ago
the player in green has a substantial lean as well. Download the photo and crop and you can see it.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
it seems you accept having your skin color changed by the iPhone algorithm... I do not accept that so was making light of it
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by markhalonen 1y ago
sony a6400 with sigma 30mm f/1.4, but then the child one is a 2004 Digicam I think a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W5
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by markhalonen 1y ago
you'll have to believe me when I say they are not leaning. They were just standing there posing for the photo. Would love for someone else to get more scientific about it, but I think the results would be the same.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
digicams are making a huge comeback among young adults. Even a pocket digicam is a big step up from iPhone imo.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
iPhones always take "decent" photos even under tricky conditions, but they never take great photos. I would take 10 great photos over 100 decent photos myself.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
"you will have the average complexion and you will like it" rofl
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by markhalonen 1y ago
The iPhone photo in the blog is iPhone 16 Pro which has the 3 lenses (I am the author).
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by markhalonen 1y ago
I was born in 95, so my childhood is well documented by my mothers digicam. When I look back at the photos, it is very obvious they are way better than iPhone photos that many parents are taking today.
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by markhalonen 1y ago
woah I am the author. I don't even have analytics set up on this site, but hope everyone enjoys it!
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by markhalonen 1y ago
Here's a cool writeup from PC Mag 1995 about accounting softwares: https://books.google.com/books?id=yurvRCerf_UC&pg=PA273#v=on... Not much has changed!
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by markhalonen 2y ago
This is actually how I discovered Perspective!
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by markhalonen 2y ago
I suggest https://perspective.finos.org/ for data viz to be built in. We use DuckDB paired with Perspective for client-side BI use case, and it's been great.
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by markhalonen 2y ago
I recently evaluated web tech stacks and my thesis is that Next.js is the most powerful and will win in the long run, but right now it's a bit too new for most web projects -- the ones that are low-traffic, simple apps. Migrating your

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