AlexMuir

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Show HN: I made a boardgame about cryptocurrency trading(kickstarter.com)
7 points by AlexMuir 9y ago|7 comments
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
It astounds me that they wouldn't already have used the best equipment on the market? I mean, it's the most prominent underwater search of recent decades, funded by three sovereign states. My gut feeling is that some people in po
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In Your Face: China’s All-Seeing State(bbc.com)
3 points by AlexMuir 9y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Jeff Wise wrote a good story on this http://www.mensjournal.com/features/articles/the-last-voyage...
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I've used React occasionally for a couple of years. I just blasted through the tutorial in 10 minutes to refresh my knowledge and check if any best practices changed in the last year or so. It was perfect for this.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I’m using Vimeo as the backend for my video course on how cars work. It’s working out great. They do all the storage, transcoding, subtitle hosting and provide a player. I had to code up a course player to wrap it all up with a playlist but
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Frasier has left the building [2004](articles.sun-sentinel.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 9y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Just a DSLR really - the camera guy for this used a Panasonic GH5. It's more photography than video. But a couple of lights that you can position for a subject like this make a huge difference.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
exactly. A lot of masking :)
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I completely agree. This was basically the best choice of car that I could afford to buy and effectively sacrifice to the course (the steering rack, the wingmirror motors - it's all in pieces being modeled) I'd love to do it aga
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I can't deduce your order from your HN name so please do email me.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Sorry to hear this - when you say the website shows you links, do you mean the app? There is a bug that I'm aware of that is pending submission for approval to Apple. I will check the Paypal return right now. Feel free to email me -
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Thanks - that seems an incredibly long time ago. When responsive design was noteworthy!
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
OT: Youtube hasn't tracked a single view from this being embedded on the site. Does anyone know if Youtube doesn't count embedded views?
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
How have I never seen this before!!
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Unior provided the tools for this course. They really are great quality - and run by real people who are proud of what they make. I went to their factory in Slovenia where they make 99.9% of everything they sell. We talked about making t
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I own the course. As much as you can own a video these days!
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
We use photogrammetry for the block, head, dashboard and transmission. It's invaluable for these organic parts. Then retopologized. BLENDER IS AWESOME.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
The amount of things to do on this project is incredible. When I embarked I thought we'd shoot 'making of' stuff all the way, but the reality is that even filming the film is hard enough work - to film the filming of the fil
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
It's not finished yet! Maybe when it's finished I could charge more but at the moment I'm happy if I can just recoup some of the production costs each week.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
You know what I discovered doing this! It looks more complex but there's not much chemistry or invisible magic here. It's all pieces of shaped metal that fit together and move when a piston is pushed down. In an electric car you
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I don't understand why everyone wouldn't subtitle their content. I used rev.com and it costs $1 per minute and the results are great. So to subtitle three hours cost $240. With many non-native English speakers as customers it i
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Thanks, fixed ready for next deploy :)
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
We're making it all by hand because it needs to be relatively low poly for the app and website :) I'll write about the process when we've figured it out completely. I'd say we are about 70% done on the modeling. Rigging
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I can't really share conversion stuff yet. But one interesting observation off the top of my head is that my customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe, even though I deliberately steer them towards Stripe. It was a massiv
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Absolutely :) There's a great porsche one too, and the most crazy of all is this one where they literally used an angle-grinder to erase a bike engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CqeOXqtNxk I can only imagine th
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Feel free to submit it to /r/cars and reap the karma :) (Edit: Maybe wait a little! I'm not sure I can handle the front page of reddit too.)
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Sorry. The last part is too strong. I take full blame for it - I made it myself on Friday night because I wanted to get this out before it burned up more of my time and limited budget. I couldn't face another week of delays while th
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
Thanks! The hardest thing is to try to remove multiple parts staggered over shots. Because the smallest distraction and you've forgotten which bolt you already turned and which needs to be turned more.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
The honest truth: This whole car is headed for the scrapyard at the end because it's not worth the extra time ($$$ per hour) while we film to mark parts, directions, alignments etc. I mark things when there's time. We're a

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