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Post by kimburgess »

https://vimeo.com/158477241

It's a 50K display that wraps two levels of a football stadium (the MCG in Melbourne, Australia). Everything can be rendered in real-time. Control is handled handled by an on-site operator, or can be handed over to an autonomous system that links into game stats feeds, umpire systems and a host of other triggers.

Content is generated at 60Hz and pushed to the physical displays at ~3600Hz to provide smooth visual during broadcast and during slow motion playback. Being ~1KM long and outside individual sections of the display can also have smoothed, real-time image adjustments adding to account for variation in environmental conditions (shadowing etc) and provide continuous visual quality across the full image.

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Post by johnnyg »

danieltillett wrote: post #363
johnnyg wrote: post #323

CPAP.com Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer. The "cash CPAP" space means: 1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products. 2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world. 3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all abo…

Do you need a doctors prescription to buy?

Yes, but with your permission we will request one from your doctor at no charge. It is baked into the order process.

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Post by johnnyg »

cockles wrote: post #457
johnnyg wrote: post #323

CPAP.com Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer. The "cash CPAP" space means: 1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products. 2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world. 3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all abo…

Do you have any insight into how 1800cpap can offer 5 swiftfx pillows for $25?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resale_price_maintenance

No one talks about it but the Supreme Court neutered the disruptive power of the Internet with this foolish decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leegin_Creative_Leather_Prod....

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Post by hugodahl »

mikejarema wrote: post #306

I'm spending some time creating a logo generator tool targeted at idea/early stage products and companies, or for side projects, open source projects, etc. It's called Logocaster - https://logocaster.com Logocaster is meant to help you explore a huge universe of logo designs when brainstorming your brand/logo. It makes it quite easy to scan a bunch of style/font/palette options and then "drill down" and see designs w…

Very cool stuff! Was just playing around with it for a while, saw (and saved) some nifty compositions! Better yet, what I noticed is that, not being a designer, it had palette options/varieties with the logos! YAY!

Sadly, after saving a few to my profile, the only thing available is the SVG of the logo itself, but none of the details. I was hoping for at least the palette too, so to have some to toy around with. I know this pushes it from a logo generator to more of a brand/identity, but that's not necessarily a bad thing!

Ultimately, not an issue, and still very cool stuff!

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Post by hugodahl »

cheeaun wrote: post #443

HackerWeb - http://hackerwebapp.com/ I just recently launched an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerweb/id1084209377?mt=8 in conjunction of the web app. It's my first ever iOS app and is built with React Native. I've also written a post on my journey in building the app: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/ Here's a video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xDf67mjQw

As a daily user from my phone, I've come to expect the HackerWeb UI to be the default HN look/feel, and need to mentally adjust to the official look and feel! The collapsing comments -> killer feature!

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Post by hugodahl »

ericabiz wrote: post #11

We are setting up a trailer at 7th & Red River for SXSW doing cell phone repairs and selling external batteries, cables, chargers and cases. Why it is awesome: I have done a lot of things as an entrepreneur, but I've never street hustled before. As an introvert, this is pretty intimidating, but I think it will be good practice for doing more sales in the future. Plus, it gets me out from behind the computer and into…

Wow, great idea for the personal growth aspect! It certainly tickles the brain on my end, being in much of a non-sales/people person! Here's to wishing you great success on both fronts!

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Post by abhishekdesai »

I am working on ReadBoard (https://www.readboard.io) - a new way to converse on the Web. And why do I think it is awesome? Because I believe it will really change the way we converse on the Web.

I recently posted three different articles on medium explaining my thought process but I would like to mention one article here.

https://medium.com/readboard-blog/online-commenting-why-do-b...

To summarise, ReadBoard lets you (the readers) own your conversations on the Web.

And when I say “owning a conversation”, that means…

1. I, as a reader, will decide on which part of the article I want to start a conversation and with whom. 2. I, as a reader, want all my conversations at one place. 3. I, as a reader, want to know what others are discussing on the same article.

ReadBoard is still in private beta but if this thinking intrigues you, here is a special link to sign up for all HackerNews users.

https://www.readboard.io/signup/hackernews

Following video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xPLhARgM90

I would really appreciate your thoughts on this. You can help me build a better product or stop me from making a product, which nobody wants!

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Post by cheeaun »

hugodahl wrote: post #615
cheeaun wrote: post #443

HackerWeb - http://hackerwebapp.com/ I just recently launched an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerweb/id1084209377?mt=8 in conjunction of the web app. It's my first ever iOS app and is built with React Native. I've also written a post on my journey in building the app: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/ Here's a video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xDf67mjQw

As a daily user from my phone, I've come to expect the HackerWeb UI to be the default HN look/feel, and need to mentally adjust to the official look and feel! The collapsing comments -> killer feature!

Nice! Glad to know you're using and liking it :)

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Post by tperry98 »

ClickQuestion wrote: post #466
tperry98 wrote: post #160

Live Recorder: http://www.undo-software.com Record a process on Linux and save an exact copy of the program's execution; replay it later on a different machine, and step backwards and forwards through the recording at the source level to figure out where it went wrong. There are a few main things that make this possible: - lightweight copy-on-write process snapshots - re-executing (rather than recording) code we know…

This is incredibly cool. I saw http://rr-project.org/ on here recently. Am I to understand this is basically the same, except you've added the ability to follow along in source code? That sounds very very cool. What capabilities do you have if no source is available?

Just noticed your message, sorry for the delay. If you send a quick email to support at undo-software dot com we'll be happy to answer your questions.
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