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hyung

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About hyung

Chairman and Group CEO, Gear Inc. Chairman and Group CEO, Gear Games

Founded and scaled the Gear company group to 6,000+ employees, 8+ countries, 7 cats, 1 dog. Solo founder, no outside investment.

gearinc.com geargames.com

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    Comment #11085321

    - Adding a metronome, even at very slow tempos, adds good subtle variation. - Starting from different points in the piece also provides a good subtle variation. - Playing the piece…

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    Comment #6532456

    Looks nice! Have you thought about adding screenshots on the landing page (maybe one each for "Log Expenses", "Tag Expenses" and "Analyse Expenses")? I think a lot of people would …

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    Comment #6290458

    This question might be too broad, but how would you compare the infrastructure, English level, technical talent, etc. of Rwanda with other African nations?

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    Comment #6093841

    I really like how you send a link to the game via SMS. May I ask which service you're using to do that?

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    Comment #5422313

    This is what I do. Please feel free to contact me (details in my profile).

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    Comment #4232361

    I think it also depends on the type of operations you're looking to hire. I've found that people with stronger skill sets (for example, engineers), are very difficult to hire for s…

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    Comment #4169913

    If you're on a Mac, ImageAlpha provides a good GUI that lets you preview different quality settings: http://pngmini.com/ Also, ImageOptim provides a GUI that does lossless PNG comp…

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    Best tools for remote collaboration?

    Our office is going to start having remote employees (all around the world), and I was wondering if anyone knew of any good remote collaboration tools? Here's what I've found so fa…

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    Comment #3403200

    A cross-platform game engine sounds awesome. But I wonder what kind of game can truly be write-once, run-everywhere, and considered "fun" on all platforms. A few major challenges: …

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    Comment #3399232

    The pressure to censor content often comes from advertisers. A lot of advertisers don't want their ads showing up next to photos with even minimally offensive content. (This doesn'…

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    Ask HN: Photo & Video Moderation?

    Just curious to see what services you use to handle photo and video moderation, and what you like and don't like about your service? I run a moderation team in Vietnam and am looki…

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    Comment #3035375

    This reminds me of stories of kids setting up lemonade stands in Times Square, and even making a lot of money before getting shut down by the cops. I can't find the exact news arti…

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    Comment #2942809

    At its core, our networking layer uses long-polling, but we added several modifications to attempt to keep the requests alive. We also drastically changed the timeout values based …

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    Comment #2942723

    I'd like to add that, in practice, socket.io doesn't work well for mobile HTML5 multiplayer games. We found that long-polling requests tend to get dropped without informing the mob…

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    Comment #2880285

    Congrats Anand! I've been working in the crowdsourcing field for several years now (our workers are from Vietnam), and can understand that the profit margins can be very thin for s…

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    Comment #2854036

    Can you PM me? My contact info is in my profile.

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    Comment #2854028

    Thanks, this is the first I've heard of it. Reading through the link, I believe it does a combination of skin tone detection and human body pattern matching. Typically, this soluti…

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    Comment #2854020

    I only know about CrowdFlower/Mechanical Turk at the moment. I know of other teams that moderate photos, but I don't know anyone that's put together a publicly available API/web se…

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    Comment #2854016

    Thanks. I'd argue that our team's error rates and response times are lower than CrowdFlower, and last I checked, our rates are better as well. We have good technology and an experi…

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    Comment #2854011

    I've worked with a number of companies that have tried an automated solution (including teams with PhDs in Computer Vision), but it's just not there yet. I'm sure within the next 5…

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    Ask HN: Porn Filter API! (Photo Moderation)

    Would you be interested in an API/web service that tells you which of your submitted photos are safe for a general audience? It would be useful for social networks, dating sites, f…

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    Comment #2366888

    I've been a developer for iPhone/Android for a couple years now. Making livable money on iPhone, just barely breaking even, if not losing money, on Android. - Your best shot at And…

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    Comment #1900202

    I think the site would really benefit from having a video.

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    Comment #1896671

    We've gone through the same problem. In our case, we wanted our game to resume exactly where the user left off (i.e. no splash screen). Our solution was to use a pure black Default…

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    Comment #1885539

    I'm an US ex-pat living and working in a developing country, and I see this situation all the time. For the first couple years, I would lose my mind when it happened. Then I realiz…