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sarreph
4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.
Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)
Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.
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Excuse my (potential) ignornace, but isn’t this just Bitmoji (which has huge market share), just with slightly reduced setup from face scanning?
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@lostgame: Out of interest, what device size are you running GB on? Want to upgrade my old phone to take advantage of GB's Logic integration, but I can't decide whether to get an iPhone 8 Pl…
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Safe to say that Arthur C Clarke would count this as 'sufficiently advanced technology' then I guess :)
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Actually... How cool would it be to have an NN that could extend an image's background with plausible scenery? Not just photoshop 'smart' fill, but for example if it detected a building…
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Next update's gonna be the filming of the filming of a filming session. So meta.
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Yeah, I miss the days back at the start of the decade when I would brim with delight over an email notification that a senior engineer / moderator had chimed-in on my thread on the Apple dev foru…
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Check this thread, talking about how it has been a huge headache for Electron apps. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10736#issuecomme... The driver I am on i…
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It is a shame to see Apple using the same tactics as iOS with macOS, which in my opinion a different beast when it comes to upgrades. I really regret upgrading to High Sierra, because — thanks to a st…
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What do you want them to say? Something like "We didn't use an already-existing, massive database of ours because [REDACTED]." Despite my somewhat facetious alternative, I am genuinely …
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I knew what laptop Marco would be talking about before I clicked on the link. Perhaps that says something about Marco, but I have the feeling it's almost certainly about how widely-lauded the old…
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I get that the SaaS model of owning user data is wrong. However, I've noticed that some comments seem to imply that it combats being "locked-in" to a provider. Surely a web-app'a d…
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It's not an 'appeal to authority', just a hint that I'm reluctant to take design advice from IBM. Why? As many other HNers have pointed out, the site that the font is being showcas…
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It's never an absolute, but for a similar justification to the you've given for white — it creates too much contrast, and is therefore most often (especially in print and on bright displays)…
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You want skeuomorphism again?
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I think the most important thing is that you are motivated to create a web-app in the first place — this should give you mental leverage to learn how to do UI / UX properly, if you have the time …
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My mail usage is far more agnostic to its protocol than my web usage is. Google may hold far too much data to generate a profile of me and relevant ads, but using GMail doesn't fundamentally af…
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This is one of the caveats of debating in the HN echo-chamber... People start making bizarre analogies using 'parallels' from tech (in this case, SMTP), for the sake of it, hoping that the b…
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This is really exciting — as someone who spends far too much time messing around making electronic music, I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a voice-to-instrument converter. After all, …
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Interesting you mention the gloves / 'soiled'-fingers scenarios — as those do indeed make it pain to use TouchID! However, they usually also restrict your usage of the entire touch disp…
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Not when the canaries are singing...
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This will indeed be very interesting to watch out for. Speaking from experience, WeWork has a high turnover rate — VC-money-hungry startups line the hallways, coming and going accordingly. I don'…