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phildionneon Chops – Make beats with your voice

Love the "make beats with your voice" tagline, it's simple and effective. The demo video on the landing page makes me think on an idea: why not allow recording a video of your face while you record your vocal beat? It seems people are using TikTok as a mean of physical expression (through dance, mostly) and maybe your app could grow a subculture through the same dynamics?

Curious to see the final version!

phildionneon Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple

I'm blown away by the effectiveness of the whole product. While being approachable for beginners, it seems to allow experts to tweak at will. It's a massive "tour de force".

The marketplace play mentioned in other comments seems like a thing to try. I confirm I would pay for querying predictions through the API.

Such a polished product for 3 folks. Kudos!

phildionneon Show HN: Botpress – Open-Source Bots Platform Written in JavaScript

Cool, you should take a look at rasa_nlu (https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu) as well, it's an open-source NLU solution.

phildionneon Show HN: Botpress – Open-Source Bots Platform Written in JavaScript

What are your plans regarding support for NLP and NLU?

phildionneon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Quebec, Canada - Remote

Philippe Dionne - Experienced Ruby and Ruby On Rails developer

- http://github.com/phildionne

- http://www.linkedin.com/in/phildionne

About me:

- Experience building a multitenant application, maintaining and improving a medium-sized legacy codebase and building a modern and bleeding edge Rails 4.1 application

- Strive for maintainability, scalability and performance

- Adopt Ruby's community best practices

- Actively contribute to opensource

Tools of choice:

- Git workflow

- PostgreSQL, MySQL

- HTML5 & CSS3

- Bootstrap 2.0, 3.0

- Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, Padrino

- Deploying using Heroku and Capistrano

- TDD using RSpec and Capybara

- Continuous integration using Travis CI and CircleCI

- Experience with Spree Rails' based e-commerce solution

- Consume web APIs, such as Github, Twitter, Last.fm and Soundcloud

phildionneon The Epiphany Behind a Bootstrapped Startup

Are you shipping printed badges yet?

phildionneon Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

Startups are becoming a commodity. Am I alone seeing this?

phildionneon Welcome to Quartz

First, I just stumbled on this and am not affiliated with it.

Second, I agree that some parts of the UI are overkill. Keep in mind that it has been designed for tablets and phones though: "(...) built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones."

The title of this post is taken from the text the link points to. From the text itself: "Developers and journalists, sometimes one-and-the-same, sit next to each other in the Quartz newsroom as we continually iterate and experiment."

I'm simply happy to see someone trying something new.

phildionneon Show HN: LESS mixins to create golden ratio grids with Bootstrap

You're right. I just assumed everybody knows about the golden ratio. I'll think of something to explain it briefly.

phildionneon Think Before You Incubate: How Incubators Can Hurt Your Startup

Incubators are becoming more and more like a popularity contest where the outcome is a crazy valuation. To me it looks like a broken system or one that's going to break sooner or later.

I was planning to submit my application to FounderFuel, a fairly new accelerator in Montreal, and decided to wait a bit. I'm still not sure if there is any value for my actual project in that kind of thing. The main drawback for me is the difficulty to focus on coding during the session.

Is this a problem for anyone else or is there incubators with a focus on coding?