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by thenomad 10y ago
This is HUGE for the independent film world. It's currently incredibly hard to sell an independent film online via a well-known and trusted channel that people are used to buying through. The nearest equivalent before this was getting
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by thenomad 10y ago
Do you have a link to Kevin's post and Maciej's responses at all? I (and I suspect a lot of other readers) completely missed all this, and whilst I'm not very interested in the drama, I am interested in the points you bring u
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by thenomad 10y ago
This is really cool. Nice one. It will desperately need a moderation queue. Even smaller established websites get a ton of comment spam these days. I'd not even consider setting up any commenting system that doesn't have robust
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What do Vive owners think now it's been out a few weeks? (Reddit discussion)(reddit.com)
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by thenomad 10y ago
Agreed. I'm fairly seriously liberal and my filter bubble tends very liberal too. There's somewhere between significant and overwhelming support for Basic Income within that group from what I've seen.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yup. If I post anything on SO or related sites it's because I hope to get an answer before the question is inevitably closed. I just assume that my question won't fit their guidelines, regardless of what it is, these days.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Assuming you wanted to very precisely map a small area (50mx50m or so) to the maximum resolution possible, and you had a budget sufficient to buy and place 20 or so wifi routers, what sort of resolution could you get? I'm looking at th
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Show HN: DOTAView Virtual Reality Viewer for the HTC Vive(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
You might not want to do that. Ad clicks cost, sometimes. But sometimes they send a positive quality signal resulting in reduced costs to run that ad in the future. (Or then again you might. Because you'll screw up their A/B testi
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Rise of the Trollbots(antipope.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
Gatling is my preference. http://gatling.io/ It's the successor to JMeter, self-hosted on a server (or multiple servers), and provides a lot of useful features. Some very nice reporting, full useragent control, path of
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by thenomad 11y ago
They release a lot of additional free content (or used to, anyway. Not so much these days I believe), and the support burden is far higher than it would be for a release-once local game.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Much as I'm in favour of private servers in general, this statement doesn't really work. Blizzard have to - legally have to - pay the people who do customer support, development, art, writing server ops, etc. That adds up to a lot
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5 Magical Beasts and How to Replace Them with a Shell Script(antipope.org)
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Markov Chain Dirty to Me(antipope.org)
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Show HN: Lovecraftian monsters and badly-indexed forum posts: DANGEROUS TREASURES(youtube.com)
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by thenomad 11y ago
That cast's vastly beyond the reach of anyone not spending $50m on a movie. Steve Buscemi alone is enough to open a picture. And I'd argue Louis CK is, at this point, big enough to qualify as close to A-list by himself. He's
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by thenomad 11y ago
Yes. Documentaries are a completely different world to narrative feature films and one I don't know a lot about. The financials work very differently.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Webseries are a slightly different kettle of fish to feature films, and generally in the indie world people draw a distinction between indie movies from relative unknowns (which can cheerfully include people with multiple features under the
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by thenomad 11y ago
Counterpoint: I played since a month after Vanilla launched until about half-way through WoD. By your logic I should be a hardcore "Vanilla was the best" player, but actually, I'd argue that most of the game peaked in TBC (th
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by thenomad 11y ago
TV has its own problems (like being almost completely closed to independent creators), but I tend to agree.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Various people have tried it, but it usually works somewhere between "not well" and "terribly". Although information flow in the film world is so limited that it might well be there's someone out there who has crack
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by thenomad 11y ago
I do wonder whether the licensing snafu that is the movie world is, in the long term, going to kill it or at least badly damage it as an artform. We already know it's hideous and irritating from a consumer's point of view. But wha
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by thenomad 11y ago
Interesting. Lack of Bayesian testing is one of the reasons I've never considered using VWO - nice to see that's now your main methodology.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Not disputing the basic thesis here, but it's worth noting that comparing days skiing to time spent in the ring is somewhat specious. As I understand it (boxing's not my martial art of choice but I know a bit about it), boxers spe
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by thenomad 11y ago
They are less satisfying, but not for that reason so much. Bare-knuckle fights can go on for a long, long time. I can't find the source just now, but I recall some fights went on for up to 24 hours. That doesn't televise well.
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by thenomad 11y ago
It's not great on high-end computers either. The PC I'm usually browsing from is high enough spec to meet Oculus VR's recommended spec for VR experiences (just about). But YouTube on FF is still pretty unusable.
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by thenomad 11y ago
You're making some assumptions there. It may also be that they have tried to diagnose why, haven't managed to find anything in an hour or so, and feel that their time could probably be more productively used, post browser switch,
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by thenomad 11y ago
Oddly, I have recently found Firefox so slow - particularly on YouTube where for some reason it's unusable - that I'm considering a full-fledged switch to Chrome.
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by thenomad 11y ago
This seems like the rare case where a more descriptive title would really help this item. I nearly didn't click on it, because I had no idea it was relevant to one of my major interests, photography.

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