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by ethank 15y ago
I played with the app a bit ago on Seth's phone. A really nice job. Kudos!
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by ethank 15y ago
Non-competes are flimsy in California, but a bit more on the "maybe" in Washington. It all depends on which employment law his agreement (and the employment agreements of the other writers, if they have them) are under. Anti-poaching is typ
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by ethank 15y ago
Reminds me of the Theseus Paradox: if all component parts (Arrington + writers) of Techcrunch are replaced will it be Techcrunch? And conversely, if all component parts setup shop at a new blog, is that Techcrunch (a map/territory debate pe
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by ethank 15y ago
Self organization is always cool. I imagine if you fed click paths into a Kohonen algorithm as different dimensions you'd get some interesting maps.
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by ethank 15y ago
There might be emergent funnels that you didn't instrument, but appear after seeing an app in the wild. You also sometimes get funnels that emerge off of deep-link referrals that you didn't predict for. Anyhow: this is super smart, and havi
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by ethank 15y ago
Reminds me of my first meeting at Yahoo after I started at WBR. I was a huge fan of delicious pre-acquisition and wanted to meet with Joshua to see if there was any way to tie music and our artist sites in with the service. I e-mailed him I
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by ethank 15y ago
Yahoo needs someone who can clearly articulate what Yahoo does. There is no "product" to draft behind, just a disjointed set of technologies which individually are great (as someone pointed out, YUI and Hadoop, etc), but holistically don't
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by ethank 15y ago
The big question is: what are Google's intentions and when does their "spring cleaning" come to their content infrastructure? Right now it's a mess. Google Music lives under Andy Rubin, while the actual music deals they have in place live u
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by ethank 15y ago
Depends on which direction in my family tree you go, but my great-grandma on my maternal-Grandma's side (her mom) was born in Lithuania. Most other forks of the family tree are four generations back. We still have some family (cousins) that
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by ethank 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epB5Z6ijpk The Player, opening scene. Self referential of the fact that it's all one cut. A dissection of the Copacabana shot from Goodfellas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMKyNJvNV8 And one of the mo
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by ethank 15y ago
It's actually fun to use Kuler to do the palettes for the Matrix. They did the whole complimentary triad thing in spades with both looks.
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by ethank 15y ago
Cuts are not a bad thing though. They are a part of the rhythm of the narrative and when a movie is edited properly they are a device that binds and moves things. Dissecting a movies cuts is always fascinating though. One of the Film Studie
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by ethank 15y ago
I love this article and having worked with Apple on the outside (from the music business) it rings true. It was really interesting to see where the two businesses collided because at heart, Steve Jobs operates a lot like a music executive:
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by ethank 15y ago
Red herring article. And C-Net didn't make up the story.
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My wife is an animator (worked on South Park). We are the absolute worst people to see a film with.
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by ethank 15y ago
Glad my years in film school amounted to something :)
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I started testing it when it still had the "Chicago" loading graphic. It's funny for me because I desperately wanted Microsoft to go after Apple on the UI elegance front, as I was a huge M$ booster at the time. What makes me feel old is tha
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by ethank 15y ago
To every generation there is a film technique which defines it. There was the smokey grey/green from the Matrix films. Michael Mann had his desaturated shallow-DOF look. David Fincher uses silver-retention on his film development to extend
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by ethank 15y ago
That was an intentional narrative device from Soderbergh though. From IMDB: "To achieve a distinctive look for each different vignette in the story, Steven Soderbergh used three different film stocks (and post-production techniques), each w
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by ethank 15y ago
Speaking of this, did anyone on HN beta test Chicago (windows 95?) Early betas had the tendency to bork the LFN's which was a joy.
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by ethank 15y ago
Don't know why this was down voted, but anyhow.
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Yes, the labels get minimums and breakage if they are not reached. Besides, non-RIAA acts often use RIAA companies for catalog management, publishing and/or distribution. Even Radiohead was distributed by Sony.
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by ethank 15y ago
So.... Columbia House?
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by ethank 15y ago
Keep in mind they also finance the tour, publicity, radio tours, promo, websites, fan clubs, etc. A lot of artists that don't need all-rights deals can afford to run all that themselves and so they sign 270 or 180 deals, a la White Stripes,
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by ethank 15y ago
Average drop off is around 60% week over week. This did not used to be the case however. Your window for selling is about 3 weeks right now unless you miraculously have a "deep" record with a lot of singles. But that is expensive to market.
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by ethank 15y ago
When did Techcrunch ever have objectivity? When did they ever claim to?
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by ethank 15y ago
I wish they'd post a guide on how to do a separate CI job per feature branch. That'd make this approach really scalable.
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What do they use for a CI tool?
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Articles like this take the experience of one, and all the variabilities within that experience and try to apply it to everyone. I have Lion on all machines. I beta tested it, and the service packs. It's fine. It's progressive and additive
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Would you rather compromise your design aesthetic with a URL (typeset even) or a massive graphic? http://whatever.com or http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&#3... Your conversion will be crap regardless. You'll get

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