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by esonderegger 14y ago
I'm a little confused. This community (myself included) often complains about how we wish Hollywood would release their movies as DRM-free files. But then some of us say that the "purchase" price is too high and we want a "rental" option. H
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The 'Mad Men' Economic Miracle(nytimes.com)
2 points by esonderegger 14y ago|0 comments
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by esonderegger 14y ago
This is perfect timing for a video streaming solution I've been working on. I'm trying to build a video capture program and a google tv app that talk to each other so I can stream video around our LAN. The video capture box would probably b
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by esonderegger 14y ago
That would make way too much sense. The server hosting the public-facing site is across town (where the sysadmin works). The RDP step is for getting from our network to a non-public-facing machine that is physically right next to the public
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by esonderegger 14y ago
My organization's public-facing website is on a .mil domain. Our sysadmins tell us that for compliance reasons, any server-side processing is prohibited and right now the only way to update the site is a combination of RDP and sneakernet. B
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by esonderegger 14y ago
For those interested in a legit variation on this theme, check out http://www.moviepresto.com Pretty much every movie out on video is available via one of the online platforms (currently iTunes, Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Redbox), but a
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I actually really like your idea of comparing the choice of DRM-encumbered vs DRM-free files to choices we make with respect to how our food is produced. I think many Americans have a general idea that the food they eat is the product of a
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I think you're stretching the definition of DRM a bit. In my comment, I was referring to the set of technologies used to make it harder to copy a legally purchased file. Wikipedia's definition is quite good, but is a little too long to repo
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by esonderegger 14y ago
The DRM argument for piracy is a bit of a straw man. Music hasn't been sold with DRM for over three years, but it still makes up a sizable portion of The Pirate Bay's offerings. You could say that musicians are being tyrannical by choosing
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Since I'm most of the way done with the work of being the executor for my mother's estate (she died about a year ago), hopefully I can provide some perspective here. As a practical matter, a laptop and any software purchased for it gets put
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I had noticed that images in my news feed on the Facebook app on my iPad 2 were displaying weirdly, but it hadn't occurred to me that it was likely a HiDPI problem. ("weirdly" = some images are blown up 2x bigger than you'd expect them to b
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Movie Presto is IMDb meets Kayak. The goal is to create a movie browsing/purchasing/renting experience that is as close to painless as possible in today's environment. http://www.moviepresto.com
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Who says the Library of Congress isn't archiving the open web? http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/faq.html Specifically, it states: The types of sites archived include, but are not limited to: United States government (federal, state, distr
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DC Uber Amendment Shelved(dcist.com)
99 points by esonderegger 14y ago|36 comments
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Looks like the Council tabled the matter until november. https://twitter.com/SegravesWTOP/status/222696651620483072 Does anyone know if this means Uber gets to operate Uber X in the meantime?
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Those of us who live in and around the District have been waiting for that "rude awakening" for a very long time. It's worth pointing out that Marion Barry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry ) is still sitting on the DC Council.
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I use Sequoia ( http://pro.magix.com/en/sequoia/overview.527.html ) and I'm very happy with the 'Save Project Copy' function. When I start a new project, I create a 'history' folder and the project copies go in there, named as project_name-
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Since my day job involves working with composers as they record original works, I know $100 per track is very low considering the time/creativity/experience required. However, I respect that different people are at different stages in the
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I already have a clearance. I guess this means I've probably been talking to the wrong people. For the contractors I've been talking to, when I tell them that I write python when I can, PHP when I'm patching stuff I wrote a few years ago, a
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Nicely done! A lot of the commenters here think you're charging too little and I agree. Have you thought about having two pricing tiers: one for non-exclusive use and much higher one (maybe $100 per track?) for exclusive use? If I were a ga
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I love the way the article only quotes two people, both from companies that sell antivirus software. Not that their views should ignored just because of who they work for, but their self-interest was clear. The first suggests that Apple sho
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I'm in a pretty similar situation (30 years old, no full-time programming on my résumé, but a long history of technical problem solving). One thing I'll add is that, at least for me, the problem of employers only looking for people with X s
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Why did you put quotes around "require" when describing your userbase and Mac hardware? I'm genuinely curious - do their stated reasons for using Macs differ from how you think they are actually using their machines?
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Thanks for checking it out! To be fair, Infernal Affairs is available on Amazon and as a disc Netflix will mail you. The optimist in me says this is where a site like this can do some good. Assuming viewers aren't wed to a particular platfo
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Oops. Thanks for catching that. I built that button for the popular and top-rated pages, which come with lots of pages. It should be hidden for searches that return less than 20 results. I'll get on this right away.
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Thanks! The "popular" page pulls from TMDb's popular list. I suppose I could use something like iTunes's top rentals instead, but then I'd be trying to match up titles which can be less than 100% reliable.
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I should point out: The movies.io site itself may be legal, but the torrent links it contains are not (at least in the US). Unfortunately, "Show HN: moviepresto.com, like movies.io, but with links to legal download sources" doesn't make for
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Show HN: moviepresto.com - a legal movies.io(moviepresto.com)
4 points by esonderegger 14y ago|10 comments
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Thanks!
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by esonderegger 14y ago
My mother was a computer science professor and was active with ACM's SIGGRAPH for most of my early childhood, but somehow I got through high school never learning how to write code. I did, however, learn that laziness can sometimes be a vir

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