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bherms

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About bherms

My name is Brad. Writing software, dadding, snowboarding, and whatever else floats my boat. Indianapolis 1986-2011, San Francisco 2011-2020, South Lake Tahoe 2020-present. I play guitar, rock climb, play disc golf, hike, camp, watch a lot of movies, read even more books, and have several other little hobbies. Day to day, I'm a web/application developer specializing in product development and currently working on SpecMade.com. I'm a former principal engineer at GrowthX.ai In previous roles, I co-founded and ran Soothe as CTO for 1.5 years, worked at Bleacher Report on mobile API's for 2.5 years, spent 4 years at Hired, was an original team member at StyleOwner, worked on wizard tools and CMS stuff at iGoDigital, and did front-end development work for Matchbook Creative. If you want to know more, send me an email!

https://matchbookcreative.com https://igodigital.com (now part of salesforce) https://styleowner.com (defunct) https://bleacherreport.com https://soothe.com https://hired.com https://coinbase.com https://jeevz.com https://tryrelease.com https://growthx.ai https://gnomebobon.com https://specmade.com

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    Comment #49126279

    We did this in college as well using microcontrollers and leds or something - i forget the exact details. It was super fun

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    Comment #49061337

    Ahh you should've gotten an email from orate.to with the license key -- Polar generates their own license key I just found out... I am updating so the polar key will work and fixin…

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    Comment #49061208

    Not yet but that's a great idea! I can work on that! I'm also about a week away from an iOS app

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    Comment #49025550

    Found the issue, published a new build, added a few features, and tested on a few devices now that I'm back home. Should be fully operational for you now!

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    Comment #49015036

    Looking into it again.. Thanks a ton for the help debugging. I haven't run into any of these issues personally

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    Comment #49008489

    Okay, 0.1.9 is out now and should fix the issue... I also added a way to report crashes, so IF it still gives you issues, let me know and please report the crash

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    Comment #49008470

    Okay, 0.1.9 is out now and should fix the issue... I also added a way to report crashes, so IF it still gives you issues, let me know and please report the crash

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    Comment #49008077

    Yep, I'm on it... Should be ready in about a week!

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    Comment #49000756

    On it! Pushed out a fix for something else earlier and didn’t go through a clean install to test. Should have a fix shortly. Just getting off a plane though. Will follow up when I …

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    Comment #49000743

    On it! I’ll ping you when I have a culprit

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    Comment #48999628

    Oh also, on the website, the first preview in the hero does give a real synthesized example I pulled using the app! Its not clear that the other screenshots are not interactive

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    Comment #48999563

    The Chatterbox HD plugin actually does AI voice cloning, but I didn't expose it yet. That's a great idea to see if it can do different voices and I could clone some popular ones. D…

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    Comment #48999559

    Can you paste your system specs here for me? It's running for me just fine and on a few other laptops here, but I am curious if there's something on your laptop that might be givin…

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    Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac

    Hey friends! Brad here - long time HN user, founder, engineer (Coinbase, Soothe, Jeevz, Release, Hired, GrowthX, etc)... I have been struggling recently with too many tabs, emails,…

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    Comment #48186449

    I worked with him at Hired. Great dude!

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    Comment #47769752

    My fil owns a bunch of grocery stores in Russia. The gov't still essentially subsidizes the cost of basic goods to keep prices low for the poor. Because of this, even the poorest h…

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    Comment #47769689

    Many people losing their minds over stuff like this... I'm just glad some people are finally trying out new ideas, because the status quo is not working for a large portion of the …

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    Comment #47676698

    For a larger piece, I used a massage gun and walked around the mold hitting the sides with it. Worked out

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    Comment #46640784

    So then I guess it seems like you're rejecting the premise then that there's a loneliness epidemic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness_epidemic I get what you're saying -- I …

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    Comment #46640544

    You're completely missing the point. The problem is people aren't collectively incentivized to do so. Individually someone can decide "oh wow, I'm lonely, I should get out more", b…

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    Comment #46640529

    Yeah I'm very willing to socialize and actually do far more than pretty much anyone I know, even those without kids (but maybe not as much as a 25 year old just getting started in …

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    Comment #46640510

    Oh absolutely... I just look at the office as a "forced" version of what you said. Totally agree it's way more than just the office

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    Comment #46640498

    YMMV I guess. I've got tons of friends I've made walking around the office and just dropping in and asking people what they're working on and introducing myself, or sitting at a ta…

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    Comment #46637737

    This as well. You need to learn to talk to people, socialize, handle adversity, etc. Sitting at home and your only real connection to the outside world being an echo chamber like f…