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by alabut 16y ago
Fine, I misspoke about the IMAX format and those are all points about #1, but what are you comparing the increase in cost to? Continuing to use the same old equipment as now? Or switching to digital? Because the discussion is about the leas
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by alabut 16y ago
What's misleading is that you're only focusing on resolution or framerate, not the point that MV48 upgrades image quality while maintaining both the unique look of film vs digital, but also uses existing film and cameras, unlike digital, IM
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by alabut 16y ago
Two reasons: 1) according to the Ebert article, it's not twice as much film, it "requires 50% more film and one stop more light (a trivial issue)" http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/assets_c/2011/01/MaxiVision%... Notice what's implied in th
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by alabut 16y ago
Film geeks in here will eat up the story of MaxVision48 - it's an equally inexpensive upgrade to existing film capture and projection that results in a much higher picture quality, way higher than even the Red camera. Check out this infogra
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by alabut 16y ago
It's not only distracting but unnecessary. The English language has a perfectly usable way to avoid gender-specific pronouns: just use the plural. "A good CEO knows his/her values" becomes "a good CEO knows their values".
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by alabut 16y ago
Wow, crazy timing. I caught up last night with a friend with an Angelpad startup that asked me what my criticisms of lean were and this essay explains the gist of it. What we're really talking about is taste. All the main product developmen
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by alabut 16y ago
The guys that charge a lot aren't the ones being hurt by 99designs. Business is fine for me. It's the younger designers in school or fresh grads that are building their first portfolio that are being commoditized even more than they already
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by alabut 16y ago
I crashed a few lectures of his MBA class and the first one was totally devoted to this one sentence. He didn't just throw it out there, he quizzed the students with intense questions for an hour about what they thought startups were, like
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by alabut 16y ago
I recognized it instantly and wondered how they were able to use it for a commercial video. I thought the licensing was too expensive to use a major label group?
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by alabut 16y ago
You can also make it easier to read by minimizing the repetitive parts and designing it to look more like a list by: * changing the "Yes" to "Yes you can:" * turning all the "Can I"'s to bullet points * removing the question marks.
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by alabut 16y ago
Funny, I feel like having a spouse actually helps me avoid burnout because I know there's a block of time every day that's devoted to someone other than myself and with different non-nerdy interests.
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by alabut 16y ago
It's an amazing experience to live with others that are passionate about similar interests, especially when you're early in your career and it's impossible to burn out. I've never had that with startups, I did live with other athletes in co
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by alabut 16y ago
That's along the lines of one of the bigger proposals I've seen - to cover large inhospitable and hot places like the Sahara. It doesn't have to be with expensive photovoltaic panels, you can take Spain's route and use the mirrors-heating-m
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by alabut 16y ago
Only in the U.S., the last country with single carrier exclusivity. Android isn't doing as well internationally.
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by alabut 16y ago
I think Dribbble and Forrst have become defacto versions of that.
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by alabut 16y ago
"if big websites like yahoo keep not using it, it will stay that way" Not true - openid never took off because it has severe usability issues, not because major sites didn't try to implement it. It's not just an open source/standardized v
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by alabut 16y ago
This looks like great info to have and we've been building out similar tools for both internal use and some tailored ones for our customers, but I won't know until later because the site's leading is so awful as to be unreadable and I had t
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by alabut 16y ago
The obstacle is that it'd probably reveal too much about Apple's secret sauce, or at least there's a perception that it would. People usually cite all kinds of general reasons why Apple is thriving - product design, emotional marketing, ver
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by alabut 16y ago
Jesus, those icons are gorgeous. Bigger versions here: http://simplegeo.com/products/ Reminds me of the new Disqus graphics - looks like 3D is the new gradient.
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by alabut 16y ago
I love working with this guy. Not only is his energy infectious but he's self-aware and constantly tinkering with improving himself. Like he's simultaneously both the bionic man as well as the doctor that's adding a shiny new limb.
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by alabut 16y ago
I can see Andy and Meagan coding first because their designs are very blocky and square, but Elliot's work is actually quite creative and polished, so he's good inspiration to try going with HTML first on a test project or two. Although I s
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by alabut 16y ago
Hope you like it. Ping me with you impressions if you find it interesting - practically no one's heard of this book and it's been my little secret for a year or two.
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by alabut 16y ago
Oh this is really cool, I never heard of Driving Technical Change. I could definitely use the tips because I've been instigating some technical changes at work recently: svn to git, php to rails, big product features to independent small
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by alabut 16y ago
I highly recommend Pragmatic Thinking & Learning - it probably gets overlooked amongst all the other straightforward howto books but it's the one that's had the biggest impact on me personally. http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/prag
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by alabut 16y ago
I've been doing Natural Stress Relief for about a month now, after reading about it on Alex Payne's post about staying healthy while doing a startup: http://al3x.net/2010/09/07/startup-health.html It's not only easy to do but I also found
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by alabut 16y ago
If you need a focus group to make up for a lack of taste, none of the 20 will be as good as 1 from Pininfarina. It's pure luck, like monkeys throwing poop on the wall to see what sticks. There's an entire PG essay on the subject of taste an
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by alabut 16y ago
The new public pages look gorgeous, especially that huge 3D graphic on the home page. Good job Chris Jennings!
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by alabut 16y ago
It's fine to have a range of personalities for different software types, including power tools. Flickr comes across as a cheerleader in a language class - excited about meeting people from all over - and it works great for something fun lik
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by alabut 16y ago
Summary: he made a 960-like stylesheet framework that increases the overall width, the size of the gutters between columns and cleans up the markup. I've been using 960 for a few years and the markup detox is really nice. Adding clearing di
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by alabut 16y ago
" I wouldn't beat up on our designers too much, since we gave them a wordmark set in Avenir to work with. " What's wrong with Avenir? There's nothing wrong with that typeface and it's just plain weird to try blame it for why Matasano's home

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