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by rickdicker 1y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. It must be sad for the people who dedicate their lives to slow-change to see everything get steamrolled by a quick-fix-salesman dictator. Do you have faith in this kind of approach or do you think it's
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by rickdicker 1y ago
If enough people protest-vote then it isn't necessarily a vote for the winner - if the number of protest-voters is large enough to have changed the outcome had they all voted for the loser, then the losing party (if they are doing thei
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by rickdicker 1y ago
How do we fix that? Perhaps it can't be done democratically, and you just need someone to come into a high position of power who is willing to be dramatic and disruptive?
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by rickdicker 2y ago
Conway's law goes something like that - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by rickdicker 2y ago
Just based on my own experience and knowledge of the animation industry, it seems to be more of a risk-aversion/lack-of-imagination problem. It is true that getting onto major streaming platforms requires insider knowledge/connect
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by rickdicker 2y ago
Presumably if you're pirating music you aren't "completely detached" from the music - otherwise why would you do it?
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by rickdicker 2y ago
I don't think you ever have to have innovated or developed anything significant to take issue with a major consumer product losing some utility - I don't know if you used Twitter ten years ago, but it was pretty sad to see the sit
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by rickdicker 3y ago
This comment won't make sense to any onlookers, but I didn't forget about you, and I hope you're doing okay.
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by rickdicker 3y ago
I'll be your friend. What's up?
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by rickdicker 3y ago
That is some seriously cool stuff! It's a shame nothing came of it - but I suppose shipping something good with cool new tech is bound to be harder than shipping something good that's been done a million times. Not because the tec
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by rickdicker 3y ago
Where's windows doors 2, man
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by rickdicker 3y ago
Wow no kidding! The Spumco web stuff was before my time, but Foster's started airing right around the time I picked up flash, when I was like nine (it was a favorite show of mine!) There were a lot more flash shows on TV back then, and
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by rickdicker 3y ago
That was the end!
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by rickdicker 3y ago
I wouldn't say any of those bullet points are inherently better - just differences for you to contemplate. For all the downsides of these things, there are artistic uses of each that sadly are not an option on modern video platforms. E
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by rickdicker 3y ago
That's pretty much it - though it's been able to target other platforms since long before the "Animate" name change. I believe it still has a small-but-significant market share in the animation industry (mostly TV stuff)
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Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023(newgrounds.com)
267 points by rickdicker 3y ago|124 comments
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by rickdicker 3y ago
On the final episode, something that kind of bothers me here is the generally antagonistic attitude towards the "get kids excited about reading" approach. The whole series focuses on the struggling students who were wronged by mis
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by rickdicker 4y ago
Something like instead of saying "well more people die of the flu every year than die of COVID!" you would ask "how do you think the severity of this disease compares to other things we deal with, like the flu?"
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by rickdicker 4y ago
I find it strange that this article presumes that you have all the right answers and that there isn't the possibility that you are the one who needs their mind changed. It points out that listening is valuable, but not because there&