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New comment by scottymac in "Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next"

scottymac — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:18:15 +0000

If you’re on an iPad use Reader view by tapping “AA” in the address bar and selecting Show Reader. You’ll get just the article’s text and images.

New comment by scottymac in "Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang"

scottymac — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:32:48 +0000

There are multiple apps in the App Store that do this. I spent last year implementing pose detection in an exercise app and we used both Apple’s pose detection and a 3rd party’s. The pose (each point of the human form) itself was sent to a machine learning backend at around 30 fps, analyzed, and data returned at about the same speed using gRPC. Each exercise had a set of specific feedback for both positioning (“Stand facing the camera with you arms at your side/Stand sideways to the camera/etc”) and form correction (“Raise your right arm higher above your head etc”). Feedback was spoken out loud to the user and there was a relatively complex set of rules governing which feedback got priority and how often feedback was spoken. I also implemented an on-screen “skeleton” of the user’s human form points that rendered on top of the camera view. Pretty fun project from a tech point of view.

New comment by scottymac in "Whatever Happened to Plasma TVs?"

scottymac — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:35:11 +0000

Still love my 2013 Panasonic P55 plasma and won’t upgrade until it dies.

New comment by scottymac in "It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot"

scottymac — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:09:08 +0000

Especially for 2D features.

New comment by scottymac in "Electronic Handheld Game Museum (2017)"

scottymac — Wed, 13 May 2020 23:05:40 +0000

Fantastic. This combines both nostalgia for early web design and many of the games I had in my youth (Mattel Football, Baseball etc plus Coleco's Head-to-Head series).

New comment by scottymac in "Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code"

scottymac — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:17:55 +0000

Behind Jaggi Lines! was actually a development version that was pirated heavily amongst Atari owners. I played it on my Atari 800. It was the first game that actually made me jump out of my chair, scaring me. I can remember the moment vividly. Great game!

New comment by scottymac in "Exhibit A – the “child pornographer”"

scottymac — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:32:05 +0000

Absolutely--I agree we shouldn't adhere to customs, values, and laws created and held by men 1300 years ago.

New comment by scottymac in "Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies"

scottymac — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:15:44 +0000

While I understand the desire for Kickstarter to police this kind of thing, the burden ultimately sits with the owner of the trademark being infringed upon to pursue legal action or risk losing the trademark. Frankly I'm a little surprised at the response here on HN given that Kickstarter is an early stage company with limited resources. Why should they focus on something where there are already laws in place and avenues to pursue infringement? Who's to say they should be the arbiter on what constitutes infringement?

New comment by scottymac in "Facebook is not worth $33 billion"

scottymac — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:50:53 +0000

On behalf of

Groupon.com Orbitz.com Feedburner.com CareerBuilder.com TicketsNow.com Peapod.com Apartments.com Restaurant.com ShopLocal.com Legacy.com GrubHub.com EveryBlock.com Apoolicious.com Threadless.com Newser.com Songza.com ViewPoints.com Timelines.com SitterCity.com BlockShopper.com CarePages.com SurePayroll.com OneWed.com

...and many other Chicago-based internet companies

Fuck off.

New comment by scottymac in "Windows 7 will bring the 'touch' interface to the masses. Be prepared"

scottymac — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:12:41 +0000

You probably should consider the definition of mainstream, since a price-point really has nothing to do with its meaning. http://www.answers.com/mainstream

New comment by scottymac in "Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?"

scottymac — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:23:16 +0000

Some stuff I use that I didn't see mentioned:

MenuMeters: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

Hyperspaces: http://hyperspacesapp.com/

Yojimbo: http://barebones.com/products/yojimbo/

Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/

New comment by scottymac in "Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com"

scottymac — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:47:05 +0000

I like the simplicity, but not sure how will monetize it? Maybe offer it as widget for other sites? Or perhaps create a FB app? Certainly lots of potential. And people really like clicking buttons.

New comment by scottymac in "Ask HN: Ruby on Rails Hosting"

scottymac — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:24:12 +0000

Hmm, that's odd. We got three slices in early May and it took them 4 days to get us up and running. I have nothing but fantastic things to say about EngineYard. Worth every penny.

New comment by scottymac in "Ask HN: Ruby on Rails Hosting"

scottymac — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:32:40 +0000

SpeedyRails shared hosting's 60MB per mongrel isn't a whole lot of headroom.