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by esonderegger 14y ago
I didn't mean it as a dig at writers and directors, although going back and re-reading my post it certainly seems like it (my bad). I merely wanted to point out how large the number of stake-holders is for your average motion picture. One s
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I think the tech community thinks the MPAA is much more monolithic than they actually are. The individual companies are not going to agree on what content to offer at what rates in a new high-speed market, so the MPAA is going to talk about
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I could be wrong, but I think process for buying spectrum varies widely from country to country. I don't see Apple doing something like this if they can't do it globally. In other words, I would file this under "highly unlikely".
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Art Is Long; Copyrights Can Even Be Longer (Google Art Project)(nytimes.com)
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by esonderegger 14y ago
>Finally, note that Harvard asks that you respect community norms, including attributing the source of the metadata as appropriate. That's not what "public domain" means. If they wanted attribution, there are licenses for that. "Public
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by esonderegger 14y ago
The folks over in Europe watch their 720p at 50fps, which is awfully close, but would still require pull-down for material shot at 48fps. I wouldn't expect any new home video standard formats any time soon. I think for viewers to see The Ho
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by esonderegger 14y ago
I just took a quick look at the engineering page at jobs.netflix.com and over 3/4 of the postings have "senior" in the title. Maybe you should focus a little less on finding people who have already done the job you think you're looking for
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I was about to suggest the "Bands in Town" API, linking to upcoming concerts based on the "influences" section on each page, but it looks like they're about to discontinue it. In that vein though, maybe let users link to recordings they hav
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I'm a recording engineer, which increasingly means "data wrangler". A couple years ago I taught myself bash and then python in order to write a script to convert our archives from wav to mp3 (and inject metadata from a crystal reports file)
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by esonderegger 15y ago
That is a very good point. Most top-tier orchestras have tenure for their permanent positions and it's not uncommon for musicians to stay 20-40 years. As a result, the consequences for a bad hire are extremely high. Many orchestras have the
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by esonderegger 15y ago
My field (classical music) has a similar application screening problem (lots of applicants, very few good ones). Our chosen screening process, the audition, is imperfect for many of the same reasons given for why puzzle solving sometimes fa
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I've been using Flask for my current project and I absolutely love it. The project is a web interface for our library's digital archives (mostly audio and video assets, but also images and print documents). Version 1 of the project used php
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by esonderegger 15y ago
And I would argue that the greater pixel density could be a good thing, because it may drive consumers to demand greater bandwidth from their internet service providers.
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by esonderegger 15y ago
May 1 seems a little late to be issuing invitations for those of us who would need to be booking flights to make it out there. Any chance of a quicker yes or no if we send our info right away?
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by esonderegger 15y ago
When I saw this headline on HN I thought to myself "Wow, Apple is finally implementing ReplayGain in iTunes and on iDevices?". Sadly this is not the case. It could do more for the quality of music on iTunes than any increases in bit depth o
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by esonderegger 15y ago
If so, isn't it also extortion when people say "If Hollywood doesn't release their content the way I want them to (cheaper and without DRM), I'm going to continue to pirate it"?
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by esonderegger 15y ago
In case you're curious about what it looks like in IE7 (the only browser I'm allowed to have on my work machine): http://www.listensocial.com/images/css3test.png
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by esonderegger 15y ago
About five and a half years ago, I accepted a position with the US Marine Band. It has been wonderful in many ways, but one way I thought it would change my life never came to fruition: I thought it would make me a morning person. I'm still
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I just checked to make sure, and creating new email addresses using google apps does not require creating a g+ account. I've been happy with using google apps for my email server and have had no trouble staying in the free tier. It's clearl
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by esonderegger 15y ago
What surprised me most about the article is that Lawrence Golan, one of the plaintiffs, implied that his orchestra had not been paying licensing fees for works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Are they really playing from unedited copies of t
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by esonderegger 15y ago
Some content is inherently easy to copy. That doesn't mean it is without value. Copying a poem is easy, but copying a novel requires slightly more effort. Does that mean all poets should become novelists in order to make a living? When the
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I haven't seen anyone on HN making the argument that artists shouldn't be paid, but I have seen several saying they don't think artists should control the pricing and distribution of their work. To me, that is the most fundamental part of c
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I think it's frustrating to everyone that it's more convenient to pirate content than it is to buy it. If creating a legal alternative to piracy were easy, someone would have done it by now and the folks in Hollywood wouldn't feel like they
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by esonderegger 15y ago
"There's no value in movie X sitting in a vault." I'm pretty sure Disney would beg to differ. Also, digital preservation is not a one time expense. I like the idea of a subscription model for a complete catalogue of content too, but it's no
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by esonderegger 15y ago
I'm surprised no one's chimed in to complain about AppleDouble files. I recently updated a machine that writes a lot of files to network shares to 10.7. Since 10.7 no longer supports older versions of AFP, this meant mounting those shares u