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Show HN: Physics simulation stress toy, smash random objects(play.google.com)
1 points by Jack000 12y ago|1 comments
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by Jack000 12y ago
I'm not a backer but watching from the sidelines I have a feeling there's so much hype built around this game that it'll be underwhelming no matter what they release, especially a year from now when there'll be more curr
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by Jack000 12y ago
torrent clients haven't changed much over the years, the old version still works just as well for me. Private torrent sites require specific clients, and the old version of utorrent is usually on the list.
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by Jack000 12y ago
don't forget the community and libraries you can leverage. Personally I'm still using arduino for the excellent acelstepper library.
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by Jack000 12y ago
does Sandwich have much brand recognition outside of the startup crowd? Most of their videos have lots of views but it's hard to separate the contribution of the video alone vs other marketing efforts. The video production by itself is
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by Jack000 12y ago
everything I've read suggests exact match domains have been declining in SEO-potential, I don't think they have any merit now in 2015. Google changes it's algo pretty frequently so it's hard to get a fix for what exactly
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by Jack000 12y ago
I wonder if this is based on OpenCV or if it's a proprietary system. Looking at the demo it could be using CAMShift with Kalman control? My experience with OpenCV is that object tracking depends heavily on hue differences between the t
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by Jack000 12y ago
I'm a bit more pessimistic. I've tried Siri and Google Now but they just seem to be more involved, less accurate ways to do things I could have done by touch. A good (human) personal assistant should know what I want and execute
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by Jack000 12y ago
if we're going with the Chinese investors are inflating real estate prices theory - most Chinese people would probably find the cold winters in the rest of Canada a deal breaker, whereas the rain in Vancouver is a mild inconvenience. I
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by Jack000 12y ago
during my time as a freelance designer/dev I had a particularly demanding client. I came up with several layouts and iterated for weeks on a single page with little progress. One day in frustration I filled the entire page with a tinyM
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by Jack000 12y ago
I imagine swarms of quadcopters would be better for that task. Less chance of being blocked by physical barriers and lower cost = more units. They're so cheap you wouldn't even need rounds, just pack on some explosives and self de
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by Jack000 12y ago
in actionscript? I haven't worked with it for a while but I don't think so. Even if it was possible I wouldn't want yet another layer of abstraction to compile to html. it's not the graphical authoring environment that r
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by Jack000 12y ago
I kind of miss flash. Security issues aside, Actionscript 3 and the graphics api felt a lot easier to use than js/canvas and was more performant. It felt like adobe just rolled over once Steve Jobs declared flash dead. They even bundle
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by Jack000 12y ago
not sure it's possible. When I was there there was a big scandal with bad meat at McDonalds and PizzaHut. I just accept it as a part of the background, like the pollution.
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by Jack000 12y ago
probably no one is looking at this anymore, but just an update: being on the front page for a couple of hours netted me around 6000 visitors and 12 orders, for about $240 revenue. Thanks for the support!
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by Jack000 12y ago
not sure what the point is, but there are Chinese people living in Tokyo. There are about 300 000 Chinese people in Japan, I happen to know a few of them personally.
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by Jack000 12y ago
Hardwoods are better for carving so Oak could work. I'm pretty sure regular plywood is mostly the same stuff underneath, with a veneer of the good stuff on top, so I'm not certain it would help with weather resistance. Still exper
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by Jack000 12y ago
it's kind of hard to tell with that one since it has a rough style, but that splintering is actually a part of the design (if you're talking about the vineyard one)
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by Jack000 12y ago
aah, op here. So right now I've only got the 100 or so keyboard ascii chars. The reason is that there is no software api for v-carve lettering. I've had to write a script that's basically a point-and click windows macro for e
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by Jack000 12y ago
I got a kit from cncrouterparts. Really should have just bought a shopbot or something but wanted to build it myself. The biggest irony is that the easiest way to do a CNC build is with another CNC.
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by Jack000 12y ago
It's pretty much a wooden plaque, but that doesn't sound very enticing so I was trying to frame it more as a greeting card type of product. You're right though, it definitely needs a more literal description right up front.
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by Jack000 12y ago
heh, I basically made this site to justify my CNC expenses. I remember my first CNC, made from MDF and a hand saw. Wasn't pretty but it was fun making and using it.
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by Jack000 12y ago
yep, though it could take a bit longer. I've sized them so they fall right under 13 ounces for first class parcel in the states. They're light enough to be considered a different class of mail from regular parcels, essentially.
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by Jack000 12y ago
a project like this is probably a bit out of the norm for the HN crowd, but I thought I'd share it anyways. I've been working on this as a side project for the last few months. I had ran a similar business in university, but most
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Show HN: WYSIWYG CNC wood carvings(pinegram.com)
57 points by Jack000 12y ago|27 comments
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by Jack000 12y ago
I used to get 6 hours or so and felt terrible all the time. After I quit my job I stopped using alarm clocks, and find that I naturally wake up after 8-9 hours. For me, waking up naturally is the best thing about self/unemployment. B
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by Jack000 12y ago
does it advertise 15000 feet somewhere? Can't find it on the website. I find this rather dubious, since it would take at least an hour to climb to that height.
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by Jack000 12y ago
I don't buy the foreign ownership theory behind Vancouver property prices [1]. My personal theory is that the large Chinese-Canadian population in Vancouver forms most of the demand for overpriced detached homes. Within my family at le
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by Jack000 12y ago
When I flew my parrot drone with the bumpers it was noticeably more sluggish, and a slight breeze would push it around. The instructions actually say to remove it for outdoors flight.
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by Jack000 12y ago
makes perfect sense to me. People wear watches these days for 1. fashion 2. status symbol (see omega, longines etc) this just covers the status symbol portion of the market

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