alexhawket

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by alexhawket 14y ago
Or how about just CE... Chief Employee.
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by alexhawket 14y ago
I'm a Canadian in New Zealand. Rather hilariously, in typical imperial/metric, schizophrenic Canadian style, there's quite a few joint CEO/Managing Directors back home. Managing Director itself is funny. Which is it? Are you managing a bunc
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by alexhawket 14y ago
A friend of mine works in film, so I know the ballpark costs from conversations with him. You can find production costs for films on the net fairly easily. Puss in Boots, for example was $130 million and Kung Fu Panda 2 was around $150 mill
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by alexhawket 14y ago
$200m USD is $158m euros.. so yes, that's, an order of magnitude more.
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by alexhawket 14y ago
For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film. It can take a week just do 3 seconds of animation and all the labour is, of course, exceptionally talented and extremely expensive.
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by alexhawket 14y ago
As it happens, last night, I came across this talk featuring Jeffrey Katzenburg from Dreamworks Animation: http://te11.techonomy.com/innovation/entertainment-and-techn... In it, he discusses the enormous investment they are making in real
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by alexhawket 14y ago
68.6 million Americans live in households with incomes under 20k.
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Neil Gaiman – The Best Commencement Speech You May Ever Hear(fourhourworkweek.com)
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by alexhawket 14y ago
I came across this post yesterday about using Ponoko's, relatively inexepensive, laser cutting service for micro-fluidics: http://nznano.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/simple-laser-cut-millim...
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Rabobank has a similar system. Account access requires a keypad widget, an account number, the widget's serial number, a pin and the generated one-time pass. Any transactions require a second one-time pass derived from a different algo.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
15 studies showing caloric intake is the primary factor for weight loss: http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I came across an article about the Belarus dictatorship back in November, on Reddit. It's a pretty interesting read: Belarus, the land of no applause ( http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/belarus-land-no-a... )
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Ahh thanks for the tip.. I didn't even realize my TotalFinder has not updated.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I use TotalFinder as a finder replacement. It has a feature called "The Asepsis feature" which will redirect .DS_Store files to /usr/local/.dscache. Quite handy.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
The interest rate is a measure of the leverage you can apply when buying that mortgage. Lower interest rates mean more leverage. Increased leverage increases risk. If they lower the interest rate, you can buy a more expensive home.. but you
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Firstly, I was not saying businesses do not have to do marketing. All businesses have to (or should) do significant marketing/pr/advertising to reach their market. However, there's a massive difference between good marketing and deceptive/i
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Patrick is falling into what, I call, the marketing trap. I like some of Patrick's advice, but I wouldn't follow this... ever. Patrick has a nice little niche business but that's all it is, a niche. Niches, by definition are really small, f
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by alexhawket 15y ago
There are two schools of thought, in marketing, on giving away parts of your business, your ideas etc: Give away your non-core ideas to attract people/resources/interest and then sell your complete system. Give away your core ideas to "prov
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by alexhawket 15y ago
The product and data in this case is your "core" that the article is advocating to keep close to your chest while outsourcing the non-essential components that would attract interested parties to your work.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
If Github went in that direction, they would have to sell services to Enterprise clients to maintain/deploy the client's Github installation instead of selling the software itself.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
One simple rule of business: commoditize your complements. Apple sells hardware and "gives away" all their media. Content creators and developers are charged only enough (30% margin) to basically break even managing the system. This adds tr
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by alexhawket 15y ago
This lawsuit is likely not pertaining to cost but rather to control. Grooveshark is not really "piracy" since every content owner gets paid regardless of the origin of the content. Whether it cannibalizes other revenue sources is up for deb
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by alexhawket 15y ago
The thing about your 300 songs is that they aren't 300 songs in your collection.. they are 300 songs added to the system. If anyone else streams or buys those songs, then the content owner will get paid. Meanwhile the ads or the $6 a month
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I like Grooveshark's business model.. I think it's one of the most clever of all the new media companies. Media is a two way market. Both content owners and buyers must be completely satisfied for the market to work effectively. The two pro
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Do I know if my suggestions will fix anything? No of course not, they have to be tested. But my experience tells me it could be improved significantly.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
You're confusing the big labels with a heavy marketing presence with the wide swath of medium sized labels that used to exist but no longer do. Now the situation is big labels pushing, mostly pre-internet era, artists with enough clout to p
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by alexhawket 15y ago
That's not really true. There are time constraints and filtering out the good music can be a difficult proposition in 1 in 100 kind of scenario at best.. it's fatiguing. Many djs, for example, rely heavily on labels to curate their offering
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by alexhawket 15y ago
What you mean actually adhere to good business practices? Another option is more of a co-op model where multiple bands get together and share resources between them. Many bands in Canada operate this way. They tour together, give each other
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by alexhawket 15y ago
Yeah there's lots of great UI libraries but it doesn't really solve the problem since they aren't universally applied. Users still have to learn the UI controls of each library or whatever else the designers come up with.
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by alexhawket 15y ago
I agree at first glance, the site took me a few seconds to orient myself as the layout was confusing. The "support twitter updates" looks like a tagline and the categories are confusing. A standard menu would be at the top right of the page

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