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Real hackers Memento Mori
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Check out DZI (Deep Zoom Images), IIIF API and Zoomify.
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Thank you for sharing your experience. To add to your ZIRP point: I find it bizarre that tech companies are still valued at 10x their revenue in the stockmarket. The multiple is a high-tech premium... because computer technology is new and
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LinkedIn is also known for down-ranking posts with links. That's why you'll see people posting a URL in a separate comment on their own post. These social networks are "on the Internet" but they are not "on the Web&
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>It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated. "Your Honour, it's simply impossible to break up our company into separate entities. Everything is just too entangled together! Can we
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The other commenters already have you a good heads-up about the risks with thr SF robotics position. I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that there is a lot to learn still at your current job. Dive deep into Sales Engineering a
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I like this. There's also a related phenomenon where a business adds a "nobody-asked-for-this" feature just to ride a hype cycle. For example, adding generative AI features to a product (like a "generate me a cold outrea
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What do archivists keep (or not)?(peelarchivesblog.com)
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I've been thinking about the same topic recently, with a specific focus on antiquarian books. There is a local business I think of as a "Book Butcher". They buy an old book with beautiful engravings, cut out the pages and res
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Because you're creating webpages from the text, one option for collaborative notes/corrections is to use a Web Annotation system like Hypothes.is.
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What country's data did you scrape? Do you make it available somewhere? I'm on month 10 of scraping Canadian grocer data and make it available publicly at https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/
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Blogging, Substacking and owning digital real estate(manuelmoreale.com)
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I also appreciate Derek and his writing. But his style is like catnip to the 20-something-single-guy part of my lizard brain: sometimes he's missing a degree of duty, responsibility and community consciousness as he approaches situatio
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I just want my government to enforce a law that's already on the books, which Google has been violating for ~10 years now.
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The "corrective action" from all these lawsuits have not been decided on or have not been put into place, that's why you're not seeing results yet. The legal system works exceptionally slowly (while Google has already ma
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There is a lot of solid advice in this thread. It all depends on your specific situation: * Sometimes the answer is to go work for a better boss. Someone who does constant 180s is impossible to work with. * Sometimes it helps to learn more
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There's actually evidence that people who were wealthy in pre-Rennaissance Florence are still wealthy today [1]. And in US plantations, the technological innovation of the "Cotton Gin" allowed existing plantation owners to ex
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To preserve acidic paper books, you might have luck with archival-grade boxes made of "buffered" material. The buffer is an alkaline material that's supposed to neutralize the acid in the paper.
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This logic only applies for companies in a competitive business environment. YouTube is a video monopolist - they know that it is an awful service for viewers, but there's no need to improve things because where else would viewers go?
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Rhis hits a spot for me that I call "millionaire problems": The owners of the company are millionaires. They're just as smart as the workers, and vastly more well-resourced. You, as an employee, shouldn't cry for their c
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In case this gives you some ideas/inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game
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Email is probably the least concentrated and gate-kept space on the Internet. You'll be waiting for a very long time until these issues are on regulators' radar. Proofpoint: * Does very aggressive "bot click" checks when
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The Printers' International Specimen Exchange(jacobfilipp.com)
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Your situation reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti Perhaps some of his writings can help? Also, people who think/have an internal monologue are often in a state of constantly reacting&
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There's no grownup in the room who will fix this. "You're It". I recommend that you take this opportunity to download 1 favourite old website/article/piece of software from the Archive and rehost it on your own
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I agree. And I am dismayed that government and academic institutions like to dance around the legal issues of archiving (outsourcing the legal risk to Internet Archive), instead of pushing for legal protections/exemptions for the act o
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I still remember this one about "Red Falcon" years later: https://magazine.atavist.com/operation-red-falcon/
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Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode
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Not for an adult audience. It seems to me that we have way too many books (check the selection at an average large book store), so it is hard for your book to stand out. Additionally, physical books are becoming less popular. It seems simpl
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How the Mandalorian was filmed in an immersive LED environment (2020)(theasc.com)
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