bozho | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin rises
I'm outside the US and it was no problem. Wire some money to a bank account, get the bitcoin.
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bozho | 13 years ago | on: Users don't like social login
Hi. I have to confess I neglected my promise to contribute to the official documentation, but I haven't found the time..
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Users don't like social login
And here's my How-To for adding Persona authentication to your site: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1056
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin rises
I was surprised the other day when I was testing the bitcoin integration for a project of mine (here's a how-to: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1114), that the price is so high. I bought my bitcoin a couple of months ago at 10 times lower prices, and it was a pleasant surprise.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Breakpoint.io - Share and get feedback on your side projects
I'd suggest adding features to keep people coming back. E.g' rss and email subscription for 'hot' projects. Otherwise it might get pretty lonely when you get off the hn front page.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
You can get some motivating stuff done even without changing the field. Specializing in something cool and strange is fine, but as someone mentioned - there will probably be a 95% repetitive task there as well. While staying at your current industry segment, you can still do interesting stuff: I've discussed that here http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1063
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Taleb: The future will not be cool
Arthur Clarke is one of the futurists that has imagined things right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
strange. It works on chrome on windows.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
I'm not missing it - all three things are encoded there. They might not be that "visible", which is a point of improvement, but the theory is there. As I wrote in the blog "random" generates noise. That's why composition rules are needed.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
Creative Commons is the one I picked
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
sure, any feedback is welcome. The thing is still in an experimental phase, and I'm trying to improve it bit by bit
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
Will look for a better soundbank, indeed
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
I've read some papers about software used to help live performers, some sort of co-performer, or accompanying robot. But I can't find the paper right now..
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
they sound pretty nice :) will read the paper immediately
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
I deliberately made it generate/play tracks with 0 user input. This thing might be good, but I couldn't make it play anything meaningful
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
true that, I'll try to improve the general structure, so that it sounds complete
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
Nope. Pretty interesting, though. Will read about it more.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
Great. The composer doesn't need to have gone through emotional breakdown, drugs, or whatever, to create beautiful music. He just needs talant. And I think talant may be at some point expressed in zeroes and ones.
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Startup Ideas: a response
True that about the growing market. And true that few of these products/companies are really anything novel. But you have to do things better than the rest (I've discussed that more extensively here http://web.bozho.net/?p=125)
bozho | 13 years ago | on: Generating Music (with an algorithm)
The idea of "liking" and "disliking" is to:
1. Get a collection of 'best' tracks that sort-of advertises the successful parts of the algorithm
2. To let me analyze which intermediate decisions in the generation process are good and which not, so that I can make the good ones happen more often.