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by froo 18y ago
I always get a little tingle deep inside me whenever I hear about this black swan theory, whats more, suggesting principles for a black swan proof world (I know it's just the title, sensationalism never solved anything) is like pissing into
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by froo 18y ago
the Google employee in question should be fired. That should read... the Google employee in question should be fired, out of a cannon, into the sun. If this story turns out to be true, I think this might not bode well for Google, given
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by froo 18y ago
I understand that you're probably angry, perhaps a little confused too - but insulting the intelligence of people who have in the past proven that they are anything but stupid, isn't going to earn you any brownie points. I see YC as a tool
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by froo 18y ago
and yet just because they nailed it - still doesn't mean it was a bad idea... There are plenty of bad ideas that are executed well and don't succeed. There are plenty of good ideas that are executed poorly and succeed anyway. The point isn'
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by froo 18y ago
I'm basically going to copy and paste from the other thread - I'll edit out a few unimportant bits though I applied to YC with a friend last year, we were rejected. It was a very difficult idea to pitch. We thought our idea was the best thi
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by froo 18y ago
Well I'm going to throw a different idea out there. I applied to YC with a friend last year, we were rejected. It was a very difficult idea to pitch. We thought our idea was the best thing since sliced bread and all of our friends told us s
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by froo 18y ago
(Ok, but I will say there's a clear correlation between mediocre ideas and ease of pitch.) yeah, "index all of the world's information" is such a mediocre idea, even though it is a very easy pitch, those Google guys will never make any mo
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by froo 18y ago
It's in a book called "The Pixar Touch" by David Price I have on order from amazon, but you can read the anecdote here. http://www.amazon.com/Pixar-Touch-Vintage-David-Price/dp/030... It says: John Lasseter has instilled an intense commi
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by froo 18y ago
The film breaks out of the mold of 3D animated film art direction with stylized characters and it prefers graphic shapes over the hyper-realism so common in the genre They did this with WALL-E first, with the juxtaposition between the two
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by froo 18y ago
One of the first things Lasseter did was knock down walls within Disney, quite literally as well as metaphorically. He got the teams communicating with each other more readily - this is probably a result of one of Steve Jobs' greatest legac
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by froo 18y ago
I'm fairly sure this was posted a couple days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=547991 Flagged
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by froo 18y ago
I've already posted before this year is looking like Hollywood's biggest year on record. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472584 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501317 Looks like that filesharing stuff is really killing the
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by froo 18y ago
I realize that Bug's Life, for all that, still has the more realistic characters, the ones that feel real, and so Ants's clever and detailed world falls apart at that one big seam. Do you know why that is? It's actually a fairly simple an
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by froo 18y ago
I still disagree with this :) Well, I guess my argument is really based off watching all of the films from all studios with the directors commentaries turned on and taking notes of what they emphasise and then looking at all of the inform
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by froo 18y ago
I think that can be said about most stories with a non-tragic hero. Except that it's relatively unique to the animation field. The thing is, Pixar's process is more story focussed than other studios, A typical Pixar film usually has a 4 y
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by froo 18y ago
It still amazes me that analysts fail to see Pixar films for what they really are: Aimed at everyone, not just children. This is why the franchise aspect of the films is a little harder. Here is the basic recipe for a Pixar film. The main c
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by froo 18y ago
It always astounds me when these film companies promote theft, even glorify it (the italian job, gone in 60 seconds, the oceans 11 series etc) and then get annoyed when someone goes ahead and pirates a film. Here's a thought - stop with the
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by froo 18y ago
quote from Arrington in the article They either need to adapt or die. And they’re choosing a very noisy and annoying death. I think they're probably a bit like chickens. Heads already severed but still running around.
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by froo 18y ago
The more people you talk to about your idea, the better it gets. Completely agree, I think I've discussed my idea/startup with many people, I don't think I've been secretive with it at all. In my case though it's not so easy to steal - as
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by froo 18y ago
Yep that's exactly who they are. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men In fact, to tie it all together with the original topic, Ollie Johnson's lifelong hobby was building steam trains. He wa
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by froo 18y ago
Honestly? first time experience if you want to grow your userbase. You only get one chance to make a first impression. For example, there are many arguments to why WOW is a dominating force in the MMO market and one of them is with the "fir
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by froo 18y ago
I am definitely an early Disney film fan (from an animation perspective). Another book you might read is actually written by two of Disney's "Nine Old Men" called "The Illusion of Life" (Pixar actually did an homage to them in The Incredib
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by froo 18y ago
Ok after some searching I found an example. The guy who used to do this is named Matt Inman and this is one example. http://mingle2.com/dating/phases You can also see some of the other microsites towards the footer of that page. They all
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by froo 18y ago
I think really the best thing you can do is listen to your users, keep your fingers on the pulse of your site and then act accordingly. In my case, I didn't create the rivalry, I simply listened to what the readers were saying and the discu
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by froo 18y ago
he was the "idea" man and the quality control czar Not to mention the taskmaster. Disneyland was built in a year from groundbreaking to opening day. There is a quote I've read (which I'm essentially paraphrasing now because I can't find t
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by froo 18y ago
I've already replied to this thread but I thought I would add another anecdote about using ads. This is just my personal experience, but I think can underline that you really need to be creative. Personally, I think online ads are mostly a
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by froo 18y ago
It doesn't even need to be on your site - there is a certain digg user (I forget his username) that always does a bait & switch with content. Basically he sets up microsites that look well designed (it's usually a very simple single pag
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by froo 18y ago
I'm not sure if it's pleasant, but I can be fairly sure it's a ronery place to be. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhve8_team-america-im-so-ro...
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by froo 18y ago
Just to give a little more depth to Walt as a hardware hacker. He invented and patented the multiplane camera. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT2201689 This gave the Disney films much of their richness that other studios could not m
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by froo 18y ago
I see that sarcasm is lost on some people... I was also going to suggest a moat, drawbridge and surface to air missiles, but that was perhaps being too obvious.

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