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My topcolor is #bada55
Location: USA
Remote: No preference
Willing to relocate: Yes, to any major US city
Technologies: JS, Linux, AWS, blockchain, Three.js (see resume)
Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qMnCVQbl65PkN9xfd_LNKGwVq62SfDa6EDKjetxKVCg
Email: resume4@mailcyr.(USA TLD)
On the second point, no. I don't think it's possible to give free items to people and get honest reviews. The free-ness will often induce either charity or laziness in reviewers. The only way to get an accurate review on a product at its price point is to sell the item at its price point in the wild.
Actual market reception is positive: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R14HJYCSIBF2R8
The whole point of my post is that Vine is pushing units onto the wrong people and for the wrong reasons and that others in my shoes should avoid it. I.e. I'm admitting an error using Vine at all.
What do you want to know about the product? This is the best primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9haR4CCeh9o
On the first, am I supposed to improve based on something the user's kids said without trying the product?
On the second, what exactly did she complain about aside from "hardware improvements"? I'll make the changes. But what are they, exactly?
Also, you seem to know quite a bit about the market. Would you be willing to talk? Email me at cyrus@ my product's domain name.
But that's pretty challenging from an engineering standpoint and Alexa skills can't be controlled externally yet. I briefly added a footswitch and could get Thingamagig to cycle through the tones of a particular song with it, but the Alexa screen won't update on that "outside" information.
Amazon has said they'll consider it but my gut says that's way down the list of things they're trying to do.
Thingamagig understands the underlying composition which means it can automate tones, loopers, lights, cameras, etc. That need was the genesis of this project and that's where its going. Everybody else (including Spark, Fender Play) seems to think the playalong is the end goal, which is why they short circuit the hard work of building the composition library by integrating Spotify or whatever.
Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm right. Maybe we're both right. We'll see, I guess.
It's realtime raspbian. Headless ardour (lua implementation). A mix of guitarix and other amp sims. Proprietary cab sim IRs. Various other effects packages like rkr, ardour-native plugins.
Person speaks to alexa, alexa calls a series of lambdas (basically the not-yet-public API), and sends MQTT messages to the device which is tied to the user's Thingamagig account which is linked to their Alexa account.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.19.y-rt
Let me know if you have any other questions.
BTW, I'm not using any of guitarix's cab sims. Instead I purchased a commercial license to professionally-shot proprietary cab simulation IRs which make all the difference in terms of tone quality. That metal portion of the demo is all about the cab sims.
Do you know of any modeling solution where you can pick up your guitar and play without your hands ever leaving the guitar?
Do you know of any modeling solution that will automatically change your guitar tones during playback?
And automate your loopers?
And scroll lyrics and chords in perfect time?
And (eventually) automate your vocal effects, lights, fog machines, drone cameras and dancing baby Groot?
For < $150?
Thingamagig understands the underlying composition which is a critical component of advanced automation. No other solution on the market does this. If it did, I would have bought it and been done with it.
"do x"
vs
"Alexa, do x"
vs
"Alexa, ask AppName to do x"
The first is when the skill does a thing and then immediately starts listening again. The blue bar is already there and you don't need to say "Alexa".
The second is when the skill is still open but not currently listening. Takes a bit of hackery to keep the skill from constantly closing, namely, long-running APL commands.
The third is when the skill is closed and you're trying to get it to do something. I call this "deep launching" but it almost never works. Amazon has built an amazing system here, but the Alexa system needs work on recognizing skill names for deep launching.
With a video skill like this, I can submit APL documents and then long-running commands to make it keep "doing something" throughout the playback. There is a limit to how long you can command it to "delay" but I think it's more than 5 minutes or something.
I haven't tried it, but for non-video skills I've read that you can play silent audio for a period of time to keep the skill open.
Janky, for sure.
Location: Any large tech hub, including those outside the US
Remote: No, I want to relocate. Have done so 3x before.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Javascript, everything AWS, Ethereum/Solidity
Resume: https://bit.ly/36T5rsi (github profile, email for resume pdf)
Email: hnjobs2019@mailcyr.usMost recently, I went fully serverless on a Node-based hardware IOT personal project. Before that, I was a post-sales, professional services, API integration engineer at a mid-sized startup. Before that, I built one of Ethereum's first working dApps and presented it at Devcon 1. Before that, a pre-sales consultant at a networking-oriented BigCo.
So yeah. I'm hard to describe, but open to everything!
Location: Any large tech hub, including those outside the US Remote: No, I want to relocate. Have done so 3x before. Technologies: Java, Spring, Javascript, everything AWS, Ethereum/Solidity Resume: https://bit.ly/36T5rsi (github profile, email for resume pdf) Email: hnjobs2019@mailcyr.us
Blockchain market cap is about $300 billion now. Should the next major tech wave be worth half a Facebook? IMO, yes, and more.
Blockchain has already proven 2 major use cases (e-gold and ICOs) and several minor ones (unstoppable casinos, prediction markets). Doubters are in for a bunch of regret.
That's not how evolution works. Each step along the way must produce a net benefit or it gets discarded. Just as insect wings served as propulsion for water skimming before actual flight, big brains paid off, then got bigger and paid off some more, etc. The only hiccup is the benefit has to outweigh the cost (eg big brains need more calories).
Side note: I think our wide array of modern mental disorders are costs of our brains' continuing enlargement. I.e. brains are trying to figure out how to get even bigger and more powerful without also having OCD or schizophrenia.
Anyway yeah I'm thinking of resurrecting it soon. I've kept an entrepreneurial/techie ear open since I built it and I think I finally know what I want to do to bring it back to life.
As far as ownership, I'll probably just buy all the remaining tiles myself (the money goes to me anyway) and then sell at more reasonable prices on the secondary market.
A positive outcome does not equal a wise choice.