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Re: Not Hotdog App

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Post by gm-conspiracy »

timanglade wrote: post #28
Swizec wrote: post #16

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How does one get this job? This sounds ridiculously fun.

It was random, I was already working on the show as what Hollywood calls a (technical) “consultant”: advising on storylines, dialogue, background assets, etc. When this idea popped up, someone suggested we build the app for real. We took a try and ended up building the entire thing in-house with the crew, as opposed to hiring an external agency to do it for us.

What was your path to becoming a Hollywood technical "consultant"?

Would you write a blog post about that journey?

Re: Not Hotdog App

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Post by 0x0 »

ominous wrote: post #45
timanglade wrote: post #23

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Yup sorry about that, the app is available only in the US (& Canada) due to some legal restrictions we couldn't avoid. FWIW I also worked about on Richard's New Internet concept for this season so I definitely hear ya ;)

Can you please enlighten us as to what kind of legal restrictions apply here? It is always interesting to see how these «little» legal details get in the way of running software. Congrats for getting the app out!

Could it be that the app is using HTTPS? iTunesConnect has all these crazy questions with very little guidance about encryption and export compliance if you say you do use HTTPS.

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Post by simonvc »

timanglade wrote: post #23
elmigranto wrote: post #5

US only, welcome to the "global system of interconnected computer networks". Hope Richard's P2P-internet will work better :)

Yup sorry about that, the app is available only in the US (& Canada) due to some legal restrictions we couldn't avoid. FWIW I also worked about on Richard's New Internet concept for this season so I definitely hear ya ;)

How much of it is inspired by Ethereum? /r/ethereum is assuming loads

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Post by atemerev »

throwaway29292 wrote: post #60
timanglade wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup sorry about that, the app is available only in the US (& Canada) due to some legal restrictions we couldn't avoid. FWIW I also worked about on Richard's New Internet concept for this season so I definitely hear ya ;)

Can we expect a similar POC for this P2P-based New Internet that you have scoped up? Basically, how feasible are the concepts explained by Richard?

It is called "Urbit".

Re: Not Hotdog App

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Post by IgorPartola »

I had an idea for an app that would tell you if what you are about to eat is helthful or not. Basically all it has to do is determine the ratio of green to brown color. Obviously it would not really work (purple carrots, spaghetti squash), but would be a nice novelty thing nonetheless.
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