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The feedback so far has been fantastic (and unexpected), and your comment was no exception. I'd like to respond to one specific line:

"Tell us why the world needs Fohr, not why the world needs Pixar Clone."

A common complaint I hear is "Why can't Hollywood make movies as well as Pixar?" When people say this, by "Hollywood", they mean live-action, non-animated movies -- movies with real people in them.

The reason Hollywood can't make movies as well as Pixar is because Pixar cheats -- Pixar can do things that "Hollywood" cannot, due to technology differences in how the films are made.

Specifically, Pixar can iterate on each movie for years, making drastic changes to the story, timing, edit, music, dialogue, acting at any time. They literally "make" the film hundreds of times over a four year period.

In a way, Pixar starts very early on with the "minimum viable film", and mercilessly beats out every problem until the film is as good as they can make it. Then they release it to you and me.

Fohr has the tech and filmmaking system to take that same approach on a live-action film (the key tech needed to do so is computer-photography). So in the sense of "making better movies", we want Fohr to be a Pixar Clone. That's our whole goal.
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Netflix DVD mailing service to split off and become Qwikster
It could be argued that this represents 80% of your life already. How often do you discuss new things you bought with friends? Quite often probably, except for some things which are very private. But even some of them can be inferred from your searches (e.g. for medications). The question is, how much (technological) effort is Google willing to throw at this problem to find out this much about you. (In the same vein, I am often wondering whether Google has some special APIs for governments which allow for some deep data mining of their data for special fees. But perhaps that's just me being overly paranoid.)
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> DVDs are on their way out...

Streaming has a unique disadvantage: you have to haggle with each individual content owner.

Yes, it's cheaper to move bits than stuff. Much. But licensing is a pricey hassle. It's a huge part of the comparison, and as content owners get savvy, it will only get more expensive over time.

This should be a signal of how much more right we got the law with physical media. We all want DVDs to be dead, sure. But DVDs would die tomorrow if we just set up an obligatory licensing scheme for this sort of content. If you distribute a movie, Netflix should be allowed to stream it, and pay you a fair statutory fee.

(This isn't some a radical new idea or some Communist scheme, it's basically how radio stations work.)

Until the law is fixed, DVDs will stick around, lingering on.
Also, a word of caution: be very careful about laying it all on the line in a single film. I mean, Carpathia had better be darned good. You've referenced Pixar, so for better or for worse, people hearing your pitch are going to be expecting Toy Story. And all of the baggage that comes with it: top-notch animation, brilliant writing, creative direction, tier-one voice acting, etc. If Carpathia is anything more than a standard deviation below typical Pixar fare, you're in a dicey situation.

Bear in mind that even Pixar didn't launch with Toy Story. The company was founded in 1979, and Toy Story debuted in 1995. In those intervening 16 years, the company did a lot of white-label work in the B2B space, for such clients as George Lucas, PepsiCo, and Disney. It also produced a few short films and interstitials. All of this was part of a slow, steady ramp-up to its first feature-length production. And that production, Toy Story, was as much a triumph of writing and voice talent as it was a triumph of animation technology.

If you've got a great piece of tech on your hands, consider the B2B (or B2-prosumer) space before diving into the deep end. There are a lot of young, hungry filmmakers and mini-studios out there right now who would kill for the chance to do Pixar-quality animation on a decidedly less-than-Pixar budget. You could make some nice coin, and help build your industry credibility and reputation, by providing animation services to these entities. Ditto advertising agencies. Just food for thought.

Finally, I apologize for sounding dickish in these comments. I'm just trying to be constructive, but firm. What you're doing sounds very cool, and I'm rooting for you. I just want to make sure you've got the best pitch (and plan) you can. Betting the farm on a single feature is an incredibly risky strategy. Conversely, if your tech is really solid and groundbreaking, there's no reason why you can't turn a tidy profit with it as you move up the storytelling learning curve.
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I wasn't trying to be comprehensive at all on women! I was just joking that PG's post omitted a big topic -- women! I did give a few remarks on women that would be good for a guy 12 to know, but, again, I was not at all trying to be comprehensive.

Your remark might be good and, thus, a good contribution to some Web site that tries to provide advice "What I wish my father had explained to me when I was 12, however, I've come to expect that mostly he didn't understand very well."

For making an A in Women 101-102, right, the grade is to come from some unnamed course professor and not from the women the man wants to meet!
That is why designers are so important when creating a new app.
And that is why you need to test your app before sending it to public.
no, as far as I can tell MarketBrief is a different thing entirely: they're generating their content from statistics, not by comprehending and rewriting existing texts.

I think the essence is this - you can probably summarize these contracts and highlight important clauses with a crowd sourced solution as you suggest, but these summaries are just an interpretation of the contract, they can't replace the real thing.
You might read Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit if you haven't already.

Not that he offers solutions per se, but he starts from a similar view of the subject.
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I am loving this wake-up call to the established parties of Germany, whose elected representatives are bailing out countries and banks left and right against the will of their electorate. The only parties which seem to represent the will of the voters (on the surface) in this regard are the left and the extreme right. But for historical reasons, many Germans will never vote for them. So the pirate party fills a real void (mainly for youths): as a protest party for disgruntled voters, and as a party which gets the internet and the importance of free/cheap access to knowledge and education.
Completely broken in Firefox, takes ages to load in Chrome. Can't imagine why anyone sane would want to use this library if the cost is so severe.

Doing it declaratively through css is nice, but it would be nicer if it used vendor prefixes correctly to avoid namespace collisions instead of misusing them the way it does.
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Interesting approach but a lot of songs I would consider falling into this category score very low:

Here are a few examples from the original reddit post[1]:

Song (Correlation)

The Velvet Underground - Heroin (2.95)
The Beatles - A Day In The Life (0.00)

Other songs with low correlation:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (0.38)
Metallica - Hero Of The Day (3.72), One(3.47)

I think the reason is that tempo and compression (which I associate with tension) are not taken into account but play a big part in our hearing experience. This data may be harder to extract, though. Anyway interesting work!

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/hnc3b/what_is_your_fa...
In regards to philosophy having a 'use':

I think philosophy should have a function/use. But does it? I think its functional importance is in asking questions in such a way they can be answered by experiment.

So in the philosophy of mind, the functional role of philosophy is to refine concepts so there is a conceptual difference that makes a difference in experiment.

The problem is, there is no way to tell if you are doing useful philosophy if we define its function as creating the conditions for experiment to take over. We can only tell if philosophy is useful in retrospect, by the impact a work has. Philosophy is not like science, where we know we are 'doing science' by performing experiments. But it also is like science, in that we judge it's use retrospectively.

A good example of philosophy being useful is the case of Bertrand Russell's work on 'Russell's Paradox'. Russell's work in the Principia Mathematica was partially about formulating definitions that would free us of this paradox.

PG says "Outside of math there's a limit to how far you can push words; in fact, it would not be a bad definition of math to call it the study of terms that have precise meanings."

Surely there is use in forming these precise meanings in the first place. Some (not all) of that work is philosophy.

Russell's work was outside of math, or at a minimum it was 'Meta-math'. Russell was attempting to crystallize new logical definitions that could form precise definitions, and hence become mathematics. He was trying to create mathematics from philosophy.

Did it work? No. The Principia Mathematica was a failure. But the way it failed, it failed as a piece of mathematics, at the hands of Kurt Godel. Here is a case of philosophy becoming mathematics. In short, Godel's work leads to the work of Church and Turing, which leads to the computer.

So we can at least point to the concrete usefulness of some philosophy, retrospectively. This work was useful, even if its only effect was to shift around the conceptual landscape so non-philosophers could do 'serious work'.
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The answer to getting new releases is obvious and I'm surprised they haven't done it already: pay-per-view. 3.99 for new releases, back catalog is free. What Amazon does, except they would have the advantage of the massive customer base. They could probably work out some deals with the studios where if a movie makes X amount on PPV it gets to move to the back catalog for a minimum of 6 months. Having that customer base would give them the leverage to make those types of deals.
I'd be concerned at the "former boss" part. Do you want to work for him again? Does he want a nice title and is hoping to piggy back off your work? What does your developer think of this potential new social dynamic in the business?

While you could always figure out equity (this is sounding like a first employee type thing, maybe a bit more because he's C-level), your investors may want him to occupy a board seat. There's you, and your designer currently. That's 2 votes and if you can't decide there's no tie breaker. So besides whatever equity you get your former boss gets to determine significantly the direction of your business. Can you handle that, with you and your designer being self proclaimed perfectionists? While obviously you have to trust anyone you bring in, can you trust him specifically? I'm betting you can always find a good sales guy if the answer is no.

EDIT: A final question you might have to ask yourself is: could you fire him as the CEO if he wasn't what your business needed to grow?
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> Why do you think this is a terrible move?

Because the two services work well together. There are lots of movies and shows that you can't stream, but you can get on disc. Your data about what discs I rent improves your recommendations on the streaming side; and having one UI for both services makes me more likely to get them both from you. If Qwikster fully splits from Netflix, it'll have to compete on its own with other disc-only solutions.

Maybe you're going to radically improve your streaming library Real Soon Now; but, if so, the time to split is after that improvement, when streaming can better stand on its own.
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I'll agree that they are often a very bad idea. But there are advantaages:

1) Writing the same code a second time often results in cleaner, more efficient code that is easier to maintain. If you don't believe this, write a small app. Then start from scratch and write the same app again, from scratch, without looking at the other. For further proof, do it again.

2) Some code is just not maintainable. If you can't test it, you can't change it without fear of breaking something. I usually do my best to write tests for the old code, but sometimes that's just not possible.

3) Feature creep. That old code was designed to solve an old problem, and then modified many times to solve newer problems. There are a ton of features and quirks that aren't useful any more, but nobody removed them. If you tell a PHB "I'm going to remove a feature" they will freak out. If you tell them, "That feature didn't make it into the rewrite because it's not used enough" they will thank you for saving the company money. (Bosses that get it are different, but this tactic is still more palatable.)
The bad thing (to me, at least) in all of this is that the basic concept is great - but it cannot sustain the silliness of what's going on with investment in this rather limited space.
I was addressing the original question of the guy who wanted to learn to program for a startup. So, he needs to know more than just any 'Web development environment'.

Also important is scalability. Some 'development environments' that are easy to get started with have bad reputations for 'scalability'.

Another practical issue is, is the guy just a developer in a group where he can draw on others in the group or is he really, now, and during most of his development, just one guy and not funded and has to do nearly everything alone? To do it all as just one guy means he needs to know a LOT about computing a bit far from just Web development alone.

Actually, I omitted a lot: For a Web startup, usually need something like relational database, e.g., SQL Server. If the startup gets very far into production, then he will need some background in SQL Server management and administration, e.g., performance, backup, and recovery, and I omitted such topics.

I gave a description of some of what is important if developing on Windows. Here at HN, Windows is not the most popular option. But if you have some alternatives in mind, then describe them,
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> If you had to pick between DVD and streaming service, and make one of them phenomenally better than what it is now, which one would you pick? DVD, because everyone knows and loves it? Or streaming, because it's growing rapidly? You get to pick one.

Depth of catalog is the most important feature for me. I especially like watching HBO shows without paying tons of money for cable. I also sometimes like watching really obscure films. Films which were released on DVD at one time, but where it may be hard to track down anyone to authorize licensing for streaming.

Which should I pick?

Before Netflix, I satisfied my tastes at the independent video stores around town. Netflix killed those. Naturally, I'm sensitive to any changes that might undermine the DVD service.

The best solution, as I've mentioned before, is to just allow obligatory licensing. Let Netflix convert its entire DVD catalog to streaming. Make it pay a fair statutory fee whenever it streams anything. If a content owner cannot be found, allow the fee to be collected by a designated rightsholder organization (something like ASCAP) until claimed by a verified owner of the content.
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> "general skill at persuasion" sounds more like sophistry/rhetoric...

Persuasive techniques can be used deceptively but that's hardly necessary. It's important to accept that people are emotional and simply proving them wrong is usually not sufficient to change their mind about something they've already decided.
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Maybe they should have considered who already has the Twitter handle before they settled on the name:

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This article is nothing more than a small paragraph followed by a list. As cool as it is to see where Linux is, I don't see why this (relatively contentless article) is on the front page of HN...
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The upper class will get smaller and richer, as they now control the robots, the middle class will disappear into grinding poverty, as they're now competing for jobs against robots.

Until the robot uprising, that is.

Not techno-optimist, sorry :)
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Math professor here. We are definitely expected (or at least encouraged) to write grants, but this is not such a big deal and most of my time is, as promised, devoted to teaching and research.

IMHO the most two important drawbacks are (1) you will make less money than in the private sector and (2) unless you are really outstanding, you will probably eventually have to move to whatever random city to happen to find a job in. A large proportion of tech jobs are in places like SF Bay Area, Austin, Seattle, Boston. The same is not true of academia.
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Anyway, most Panasonic TVs also run Linux. There's an option in the menu to read the GPL

http://patrick.wagstrom.net/resources/images/blog/tvLicense1...
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I like it. How does "Instant CGI" sound? That's probably closer to our system (it's instant when you're shooting on set -- obviously it takes time to set up the CGI environment, although changes do happen in realtime -- moving lights, props, etc).

Our computer-photography system, called Metropolis, can still run in real-time with arbitrary camera movements (e.g. Steadicam), even when actors are being composited live within the CGI environments, and even when the CGI environment contains animation (wind, water, etc). The camera operator sees the combined scene in the viewfinder, live.
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Aside from the lean startup, this is also an invaluable tool:
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Compliments Customer Drive Development very well.
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I wonder, why haven't you just submitted it as a url?
(I find it very distasteful to downvote parent's comment without replying. It's a valid opinion, not a troll)

You're right that REST doesn't provide everything SOAP does, because SOAP is a specific protocol and REST is just an architectural style. On the other hand, there are already specific protocols to achieve that in a REST style (and reusing HTTP), like WADL.

Furthermore, it's not clear that a one-size-fits-all approach like SOAP takes is the right way. XML is great for some use cases but not others; by pigeonholing everything to it you create inefficient systems filled with hacks to avoid its shortcomings in certain domains.

SOAP in particular seems very strict, while REST based systems - particularly the Web - are designed to make an heterogeneous mix of decoupled services and clients work well together. The idea that a client should break if the schema changes, for example, leads to very brittle systems.
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I honestly don't know what to think about the PP. I want them to be more than a one-hit wonder but they seem to not have much of a political agenda other than "legalize warez" and "don't censor the net".

I hope their success stirs up the other parties a little.
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