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by jfb 11y ago
I would be shocked if they didn't roll their catalog. Maybe not the whole thing every time, but pulling their sources and re-encoding the complete suite when a new bitrate/codec combination comes on line seems like a sensible use
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by jfb 11y ago
How do you write an oracle for something that complex? You start with a much smaller problem and incrementally build up.
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by jfb 11y ago
One of the overriding constraints on these sorts of video pipeline tasks is touching the input pixels as few times as possible. Every lossy transformation you do (cropping, scaling, color correction, transcoding) potentially introduces defe
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by jfb 11y ago
It's possible, but the way the rights are assigned, they more than likely went back to tape and had them recaptured.
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by jfb 11y ago
When I built a similar system (for a large consumer electronics company) we built parallel paths for high-priority content; we'd intelligently split the incoming mezzanine and distribute the 90-120s chunks to a farm of systems, while a
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by jfb 11y ago
If size of catalog trumps video quality, you roll with NTSC if NTSC is the best you can get. Deinterlacing is extremely tricky, and if you can deliver interlaced video to playback devices, you're often better off punting.
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by jfb 11y ago
Maybe; maybe not. Regardless, they aren't in a position to alter their software to the degree required at this time .
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by jfb 11y ago
... if you're not used to a system that has them.
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by jfb 11y ago
In this particular case, however: [Intel's CRC32 CPU instructions] uses different inputs to the CRC32 algorithm (known as the polynomial) which is apparently more robust, and is used in networks, filesystems, that sort of thing. It gi
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by jfb 11y ago
Where is Dell|Asus|HP|Lenovo going to find the margin to charge to be able to afford the sorts of capital expenditures that Apple makes to provide better hardware? I'm sure that the PC people know how awful an experience their computer
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by jfb 11y ago
Sounds better to the board than "desperate measures to somehow find pennies in this awful commodity business we find ourselves in."
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by jfb 11y ago
It would be structured as a loan.
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by jfb 11y ago
I really enjoy reading Julia's blog. Not only does she have a real, infectious enthusiasm for learning; not only is the blog well written; but I also often learn a lot. Kudos.
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by jfb 11y ago
I think we're in violent agreement. I wasn't saying that Go's affordances solve this problem, merely pointing out that checked exceptions in Java aren't any kind of a dispositive solution.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's not idiomatic, or good, but neither is ignoring the return value from a go function call. Both languages fail to provide better affordances for error checking.
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by jfb 11y ago
You've never seen the Java "pattern" of try { foo(); } catch (Exception e) { ; } ?
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by jfb 11y ago
The mistake is in diving into a commodity business where you don't control the only thing your customers care about. It's like artisanal gas stations or something.
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by jfb 11y ago
Helvetica hipsters are pretty irritating; if you're going to reject Arial, at least do so in favor of a better typeface, like Akzidenz Grotesk or Frutiger or something.
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by jfb 11y ago
Interesting. My information was not only out of date; it was also wrong. The dangers of cargo-culting, although in my case, more theoretical than real, as I never had performance-sensitive python code in production.
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by jfb 11y ago
That's the nature of tech reviews, however; hundreds of graphs of one-off benchmark results to up page counts; thousands of words reiterating the non-dispositive test results; no editorial voice whatsoever.
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by jfb 11y ago
Exceptions in python have historically been very cheap.
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by jfb 11y ago
I guess the argument boils down to "path dependence". We're highly unlikely to get any language environment other than Javascript, so mutate Javascript to try and strong-arm it into something better.
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by jfb 11y ago
He's not exactly Donald Knuth when he writes about technology, either.
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by jfb 11y ago
It'll probably fly before Bombardier ships the damn C-Series jfb, staring at the ancient TTC streetcards in wroth.
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by jfb 11y ago
One important way in which they are different is that Lessig (and his zany wacky deeply unserious I-don't-wanna-be-president campaign for president) has no appreciable constituency.
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by jfb 11y ago
I'm no fan of Gore's, but I don't see a Gore administration using the opportunity that 9/11 presented to work out both a commitment to a new way of warfighting and a hyper-muscular American foreign policy by attacking
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by jfb 11y ago
That Apple is hiring software developers?
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by jfb 11y ago
It's older than that. Postgres used to be compared directly with MySQL, back when ISAM was MySQL's "storage" engine. It was definitely slower -- of course it was doing more -- but it's really never been slow . Bu
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by jfb 11y ago
K&R is a great book. Even though I have no interest in Go, I'll read this, just to see if it's as good.
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by jfb 11y ago
It is a communication that will have a material impact on the stock price.

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