tristan_louis

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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Sorry. I should have specified that the list was based on availability in the US iTunes store. Another oddity someone pointed to is that "Scott Pilgrim vs. the world" is on the iTunes OK store too but when I checked it wasn't in the US one
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
your analogy to breaking into a site is very valid here, which gives me pause. But one way I would look at it is that if, let's say, Apple were to produce a great piece of software and say "you have to come to Cupertino to use it" and then
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
I'm not sure a compulsory licensing scheme would necessarily work but there ought to be some framework whereas the claim of infringement is related to actual availability. So if a studio fails to make its content legally available online, i
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Legal streams are less available for rentals than a year ago(tnl.net)
46 points by tristan_louis 15y ago|25 comments
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Here's an explanation of why you pay so much: http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/11/06/live-tv-streams-challenge...
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Is it OK to steal content from Hacker News? Is it OK to republish someone's blog post under your own name? Is it OK to steal free coupons from your neighbors' mailbox? Is it OK to steal free phones provided by phone companies (mostly feat
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
One the thing that is missing in the discussion of whether banks are evil or not is a better dichotomy: what he describes in this entry is primarily about transaction banking (and more particularly cash management), which one can argue is n
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Githero.es lets you nominate your favorite rockstar developers on GitHub(thenextweb.com)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
I think the only response to something like this ought to be: "Hell no. You don't know what you're talking about" ;)
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Which 2011 TV hits can you legally stream?(tnl.net)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Possibly a dumb question but: who wrote this? I looked at the code and couldn't find any info on the author... Would love to get in touch with them and hear more about how they went about it, why they made certain choices...
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Part of the reason it passed is that it was an amendment to the Telecommunications Reform Act, the biggest change in telecommunication regulation in the last 1/2 century so no matter what we did, it was bound to pass then. Being involved in
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
As one of the participants, I remember this well. It was the first time there was a major action from pretty much all large web sites on the internet. iWorld (later known as internet.com) became part of the blackout and, at the time, we wer
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
The <marquee> tag didn't exist yet :)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
The tech community is pretty small and Silicon Valley is even smaller. As a general rule, in any business, it is a bad idea to burn bridges. It's too small a world to do so and you are ultimately bound to bump into the people you wronged.
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How many 2011 box office hits can you legally stream?(tnl.net)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
I know it sounds crazy but ycombinator is based on the valley. Barbara Boxer is a co-sponsor of PIPA and Dianne Feinstein supports it too. Does the New York tech scene have to do all the heavy lifting or could we have similar protest in Cal
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
The kind of worry you have is exactly the reason for heavy handed crackdown. The theory goes that such approach discourages further protest. If you care about the internet AND/OR you want to show that such tactics don't work, do show up. Ot
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
.. and scienec-y (sorry, couldn't help :) )
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On the seventh day of Christmas my social web gave to me seven HN upvotes(tnl.net)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
This is, unfortunately, part of a trend against "make" culture. While it does impact LEGO (the tie-in stuff is pretty useless and the LEGO city sets still have more wholesome brick sets that can be used in more than one fashion), it is goin
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Not only do I use it (that's how I saw this story) but also advocate it to people who like to consume news. When you think about it, RSS in a news reader is a much more efficient information consumption than visiting sites. Twitter and othe
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Why the Euro crisis could lead to the first all-digital currency(tnl.net)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
... and no monitor out. Apart from that, it looks pretty cool if you want a Windows PC (of course, my macbook air is about to explode if I keep writing about that :) )
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Interop: the future of CE hardware(tnl.net)
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Darn. Was just up there at Thanksgiving. I'm down in NYC myself. TNLNYC at gmail Ping me if you ever come down in NYC...
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
I probably should amend that. The financial freedom is great but it wasn't something I had aspired to when I did startup 1. I have seen many people strive for the money and make it but then blow through the money quickly and be basically in
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
Oh man. You and I should compare notes (2 IPO, 2 acquisitions here) but I fully agree with you that luck is a big critical factor. People are generally impressed with my background but now on startup 5 or 6 (depending on whether I count my
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
In order: internet.com (went IPO in 1999, acquired in 2008 (or thereabout, I was no longer involved when it was acquired) Earthweb (went IPO in 1997, acquired by internet.com in 2000) Net Quotient (acquired by Applicom in 1999) Boo.com (cr
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by tristan_louis 15y ago
"retired"; got tired of being "retired" after a month; started another company; took it public; tried retiring again; failed at that and started another company; sold it; hung around after sale; moved to help turn around another startup; le

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