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by kfk 14y ago
Yes, I think you are right. In fact, I mentioned that the "real" problem would be to reach out the audience (I am 100% convinced there is an audience out there for _any_ movie). However, I see this strictly related to what you invest in the
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by kfk 14y ago
If distribution was the problem, wouldn't this be taken care of by having a huge group of indie filmmakers banded together. This is a good point. As I said, I'd really like some indie filmaker to come and answer this. But do consider that
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by kfk 14y ago
Some links?
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by kfk 14y ago
Well, it all goes down to run some numbers. My problem is that I have to assume too many things, somebody with a little bit of experience in movie making/distribution might help? I mean, Primer is rare, ok. But you don't need that. Dependin
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by kfk 14y ago
I don't agree with that. I mean, let's be practical here, movies are there to make money. If a movie has a budget of 25 k, you need ~50 k people willing to pay 1 euro to watch it to make already a decent margin. Then, after a while, you sel
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by kfk 14y ago
Could somebody take this further and build up a studio that seeds those kind of movies? I mean, look at Primer (posted here, thanks!): a budget of 7000$ and a 424000$ revenue. Even if they had a margin of 10% on that, 42000$ is still a grea
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by kfk 14y ago
But how difficult would it be to archive email texts in a database (sqlite?) and the attachments directly on the filesystem? Then you backup that and you are set. Instead now you still have to archive (I have a 500 MB limit), but you do in
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by kfk 14y ago
Let me take 1 example: MS Outlook. It really, truly, amazingly, sucks. Badly. It is done to handle few email, few enough that you can remember about them. Good luck if you work in a corporate environment and you need to find an email from e
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by kfk 14y ago
Have you looked at the financials of this? 10$ for 1 hr delivery means that either the carrier is paid less than that hourly(and I guess at least 20% less than that) or he is supposed to deliver more than 1 package per hour. Considering tra
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by kfk 14y ago
And that mentality right there is the number 1 reason why companies like Microsoft make money with buggy software and the start ups on HN are mostly all to do apps, productive apps, facebook apps, etc. Nobody understands the "corporate", an
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by kfk 14y ago
What type of experience do you have and what do you like to do? I keep trying to start a discussion about how horrible and inefficient the "small data" handling is (Excel, Power Point and the like) and how to fix it. But this more often tha
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by kfk 14y ago
I keep wondering why good quality content producers don't come out that distribute content only on the web. There are a few on youtube, but they don't produce enough content for avid or even normal customers. Maybe we need a better platform
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by kfk 14y ago
As a finance guy and programming hobbist, I say the whole business reporting thing is a big fat problem I deal with. I get bored easily, especially when updating power points or excel reports. Besides, when things get messy (data scattered
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by kfk 14y ago
This looks awesome. What are the future directions? Are there aggregations and more advanced filter in the plans?
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by kfk 14y ago
Let's say I want to do an SQL group by implementation. Are there examples like this?
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by kfk 14y ago
What about datasets that don't fit in memory? How can a functional language deal with those (let's say we don't want to use a database)? Lazy sequences? I mean, I loved clojure when I tried it out, I just do not know if I can use it to proc
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by kfk 14y ago
That is true indeed. But I think the article makes some points that give us a different picture on the profitability of the movie industry. I always thought why not many good movies are shot per year if they are so profitable, I think it's
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How Does the Film Industry Actually Make Money?(nytimes.com)
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by kfk 14y ago
Somebody has to really manage to make d3 run on 7<=IE<10. This is a powerful technology for businesses, it may even replace Power Point (the famous software for torture) for some things (especially those that are updated often since
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by kfk 14y ago
The OP has seriously misunderstood Malthus. Malthus never got to understand that resources are relative and prices too. That's the same problem with people saying we are doomed because oil is finishing: there will be alternatives, prices wi
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by kfk 14y ago
You are right. But we still need to keep in mind that what's happening makes no sense. We need to know what the real, un-politic, solution is, otherwise we don't even know how and where to compromise. More public spending is not ground fo
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by kfk 14y ago
Just some quick answers. * It is difficult, no doubt. But it is also difficult to find a way to efficienlty store solar and wind power. It is difficult is not a good excuse not to do it. * It does not help innovation. Not true. It does. Tax
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by kfk 14y ago
I don't like this. Instead of heavily subsidizing some technologies, they should tax externalities (i.e. pollution) and let the markets do the rest. It's annoying having to pay 15% more energy bills because somebody has decided that wind an
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by kfk 14y ago
Why giving the software for free? Do you have any idea how complex is managing retail inventories doing proper cost analysis and stuff? There are companies doing only that. What makes you think that you will be able to do than and sell
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by kfk 14y ago
The margin paragraph is simply too optimistic, margins now are good because there is still small to no competition, when competition will come, margins will drop.
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by kfk 14y ago
And employers are not that picky either. Most of the things they ask, at least in Europe, are pretty basic. For a finance is usually a bachelor, English skills, some prove you are not a lazy ass. Of course, requirements go up with better po
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by kfk 14y ago
Ribbon is just stealing screen estate.
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by kfk 14y ago
I never programmed in haskell, but I did in clojure and I must say that functional style and number crunching fit really nice. Said that, I am not sure you can beat things like numpy or pandas when it comes to complex/big datasets. I looked
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by kfk 14y ago
You can't complain people are choosing the best combination of risk and profits on investments. You can complain if people have bad information about risk and/or profits on investments, but that problem usually is easily solved with a bubbl
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by kfk 14y ago
Really bad marketing practices are already illegal (like reducing the mileage of a used car...). Those highlighted don't look bad enough and basically the customer can spot all of them. Public shame is much more harmful, indeed Ryanair, for

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