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Hi, I'm the "Oren Jacob" from the video. Rendering at that time was distributed across hundreds of CPUs in hundreds of Sun boxes in a renderfarm. The authoritative version of the film's data (models, animation, lighting, sets, shaders, textures, etc..) which was where all rendering pulled data from or verified that it had the most up to date versions, was stored on a single machine.

There were several backup strategies for that machine, but they failed. A few reasons are outlined elsewhere in this thread (running past the 4gig limit on tapes) but, if memory serves, other errors were also occurring that involved drives being out of space so error logging wasn't working properly.

Making matters worse, after our initial restoral, the crew came back to start working on the show and then, a few days later, we discovered that the restoral we thought was good was, in fact, not. So we had, in effect, split the source tree and now had a bad branch with a week of the crew's work on it, including animation.

So we had to untangle the mess as best as we could, which was about 70% script based, and about 30% by hand. Further details are in my post on the Quora thread... (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...)
great, an startup for building up startups.

It's like the circle has been closed.
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Did you know that when you watch pay per view on your TV using comcast it runs on the exact same lines as your internet?

So are you saying comcast can not provide pay per view?

They can not prioritize the internet part of their service "network traffic", but as you yourself proved this service doesn't use your internet bandwidth, even if it uses TCP/IP. It runs using its own section of the cable line. It doesn't matter that it uses DOCSIS, or TCP/IP. Comcast is well within their rights to use their cable lines for TV service.

> it's about them offering services which third party providers "can't,"

Yes, that's true - comcast offers cable TV, and other providers can't. Shouldn't you be complaining about that too?

The difference is this: I pay for internet bandwidth - comcast can not then use that bandwidth in a way that prioritizes their own services. But if comcast wants to provide me extra bandwidth to my house, and then run a service over it, that's perfectly OK.

BTW you should get kudos for including all the data in your post. I'm arguing with you using the data that you yourself gave me, which isn't a great way to argue (I should really go and get my own data). So you get credit for that, but I'm sorry, your conclusion is just incorrect.
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After reading that, I felt they are over engineering a app which would run on small screens and slow networks. They could have easily waited a couple of years more to slowly build this in and in meanwhile do a native app like G+ is doing
Every year, it becomes more difficult to find affordable housing, particularly near the mega-employers like Google. The year over year increase in rent in Mountain View is in excess of 10%. Only the privileged amongst the youth can afford the slim pickings that are available, as the rent is enough to crush the savings of more modestly salaried engineers.

One thing that NYC has going for it that SV could benefit from: more stabilized rent control. No, not all of NYC is under rent control and not all of Silicon Valley needs to be subject to rent control, but it is probably one of the only things that will allow SV to continue to be a hub for new startups.

Burn rate. Even the best startup ideas will die when the biggest portion of their seed funding is going toward the trash can of residential rent. I've been here since 2006, and cannot forsee any more air getting pumped into the tires, so to speak.

I don't know how popular this idea might be, but part of me wonders if Silicon Valley should be just a breeding ground for new companies. Mature companies (eBay, for example) don't belong here. There could be some incentive for them to move to other more needy parts of the country where people are struggling. Office space and salaries would be cheaper, cities would be all over giving huge tax breaks to them. From a shareholder perspective, I'd want the management of a company I hold stock in to minimize expenses (presuming they were returning to me my due share of the savings via dividends).

I guess the problem is that successful companies get established and in a comfort zone and stop living "lean".
You can have sprawl without having to rely on individual transport by car. This is precisely what is going on in smaller European countries such as Switzerland. Cities and villages are connected through an extensive rail and bus network.

From my city, trains are leaving for Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Lausanne, Basel etc. every 30 minutes.

Most commuters take the train even if they own a car.

I'm still a proponent of urbanization because suburbs seem to disrupt natural spaces. If you travel from east Switzerland to Geneva in the west by train, you will always see a house somewhere, on the entire 400 kilometres of journey. Every village looks alike.

That said, I do think mega-cities can be very tiring and demanding. I only have limited experiences in this regard but cities like Seoul or Istanbul are not the most relaxing environments for its inhabitants.
I'm not making generalizations about the college experience. His claim seemed all encompassing to me.
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Installing xcode is staggeringly more pleasant
than installing eclipse in my experience

People saying that don't really know what they are talking about. Installing Eclipse involves these steps:

1) install Java, which on my Ubuntu is just "sudo aptitude install openjdk-6-jdk" and that's it

2) download an archive from Eclipse.org and unzip it somewhere

3) there is no step 3

Installing the Android plugin is equally easy. Then there's always IntelliJ IDEA which is probably the best IDE and comes with Android integration built in. The community version was recently open-sourced too.
I absolutely hated my academics apart from the patches that involved doing projects and interesting 'real world' work.

My experience with academic education was something like this. It was always a blind race for scoring marks/grades. At the end of every day what comes are series of boring assignments and homework whose use no one knows of. Not doing the boring stuff gets punished. Exams are always about getting a seat in a nice institution. And the cumulative effect of that is to get a good interview call. People with higher grades and marks ultimately get placed in better places to repeat the same kind of boring stuff in big corporates.

Well I am from India. The best experience in my college days Ironically came from working at a Government Military organization called as GTRE(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Turbine_Research_Establishm...). I learned more in the 6 month apprenticeship than what I learned in years. We also did great work, I can't disclose the work as its defense stuff and I'm under NDA. Next best experience came during working for a start up during my semester holidays.

Every time I went back to college I felt pathetic.

Post college, I saw the so called toppers were all about two things. Do their MBA from a B-School and then join a Bank or some business role, Or work for a nice start package at a large corporate. The silliest thing I saw was even the job scenes were filled with interview procedures designed to hire top rote learners. Knowing algorithms by heart, memorizing arcane facts, learning puzzles from a particular book, stuff like that. Practially 0 importance for things like hardwork, productivity and getting things done.

Second bizarre things I noticed was large corporates required completing pointless certifications for hikes and promotions. This was college all over again for me.
I'm sorry, but that's not how urban design works. We're not forced to develop proportionate to land mass. Your argument is seriously that the existence of the Dakotas prevents us from building decent cities? Are there so many people in Wyoming that we just don't have the population to build decent subways in Seattle?

We're trapped by a car-centric lifestyle, and it's absolutely poisonous.
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Strange Loop is undeniably awesome and everyone should endeavor to go sometime, but as a multi-disciplinary conference aiming for 1000 attendees this year, it's neither niche or small, unless I misunderstand the OP. A "cool conference" though, for sure.
> This is a video streaming service, it's prioritized, and it's delivered just like other video streaming services are.

So is pay per view. Rephrase your argument in such a way that pay per view is allowed and this isn't. You can't, because your argument is incorrect.

Pay per view is allowed, and so is this.
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That is a very interesting theory. Do you believe his Twitter account was hacked then and he has been out of town and has no idea what the attacker has been posting there about this while impersonating him?
My memory is foggy (it was 13 or 14 years ago) but to share a little bit of the technical landscape at that time with folks reading this thread...

I think we set things up giving her a full tree with her SGI machine on the netwrok, physically in the building. Then we sent the machine home with her and incrementally updated it weekly via rdist over an ISDN line.

I wish we had Dropbox back then!
The walkable townhouses and height-restricted buildings you're talking about (1.) only exist so long as the aesthetic/lifestyle value of a low-risey city balances against the demand for more housing and developers' desire to make money and (2.) make public transport trips take longer because you have to walk past more of your neighbors' low-rise buildings to get to a public transport hub and the bus/train/whatever has to travel farther (past the low-rises) to get anywhere and also make more stops if more hubs/stations have been built to offset the problem of people living relatively far apart in those low-rise buildings.
douchestopper?
Just because I don't want to spam with the same message, please see my response to Spullera. The argument you're using may be intuitive, but it's very incorrect.
I own 5 personal computers, out of which 3 are desktops and 2 are laptops, with 2 of them running Windows, 2 Ubuntu and 1 of them Mac OS X.

Eclipse and Java work on all 5 computers. XCode works on only one. And because that OS X machine is a desktop, I barely ever use it, which is why I bought an Android instead of an iPhone.
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If all your app ever does is to fetch Twitter feeds, sure.
quora has about 650k questions in total, most of which are unanswered and in general ignored. my estimate of answered questions puts it at 80-90k.

as for user-base, the churn rate is huge with the majority of users following 2-3 topics before leaving the site forever. there is subset of users who generate all the content and value of the site.

lets look at some numbers:

Yishan Wong: Answers 1457, Question 760
Jeff Hammerbacher: Questions 1092, Answers 1041
Jan Mixon: Questions 802, Answers 4101
Michael Wolfe: Questions 9, Answers 1088
Mark-Hughes-1: Answers 1294, Questions 48

power-laws ahoy.

it's good source of info on startups and the tech scene, which makes it more like a popular discussion forum
than a social network. I don't see this growing to millions
of active users unless it tries to take on Yahoo! Answers.

i believe the quora team acknowledges this, and with the introduction of boards they're trying to redefine the site to be some kind of textual pinterest.

this sounded quite pessimistic, it's actually the site i visit the most and i hope they continue to grow without
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Yeah -- that's one of the huge benefits of marking a field as ``required'' in a protobuf. The ability to enforce a contract prevents a ton of unexpected and incomplete data making it on disk (and also, e.g., across the wire to clients). Having strict types represented in the serialization format is also handy; when one pulls out an int32 from a protobuf it's going to be an int32, and not an integer that somehow found its way into being a string.
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Aside: What a blast from the past .. "Three years ago, a ballistic Bill identified the phone consortium Symbian as enemy number one and this year singled out Nokia for particular attention" and mentions of handsets like " Siemens S55, Sony Ericsson T68i .. Nokia 7650"
Cars really do give individuals more liberty.

Replace cars with, for example, private refrigerators and public transport with communal refrigerators and think it through.

Any time that you smoosh people together and force or nudge them into using shared or communal facilities rather than their own, personal freedom of action is being curtailed.

We can argue that whatever we're getting in return is worthwhile but we can't pretend that we're not giving anything up.
I don't see where he claims he is keen on patents. He claims that business are, which is truer now than it ever was.
I agree with the Wikipedia comparison. I'm seeing many of those Google searches that have Wikipedia pages as the first result now with Quora gaining ground fast.

There are two things that Quora is doing that aren't novel, but they are doing them really, really well:

1. Building an amazing topic taxonomy. A big hierarchy of topics that interest people.

2. PeopleRank. Who is an expert on which topic? Have they linked their Twitter/Facebook?

Quora have some amazing data.
If you went to a to a tier university you wouldn't have this problem. There are plenty of advanced courses to start with, and none of them are "Programming in X".
I've only stumbled across Quora a few times and don't really know many people who would even have heard of it, but what you've described sounds like AskScience on Reddit. Though their design isn't as nice.
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Why are sockets still not a standard web api after all these years? Is a socket in a browser app granted socket permission more dangerous than a socket in a native app? How do sockets in iOS and Android work? Why does the web still not have sockets?
We need a young Woz to deliver a new "Apple II" tablet. No need to beg for Big Brother's mercy.
My idea would be a weekend workshop "How to create a modern Video Codec without violating patents" with a walkthrough of the process you would need to innovate there.

Since according to the Microsoft vs. Motorola case [0] there are over 2300 patents for h.264 alone you would have to read a pretty big stack of patents before doing any actual work.

Then, present a little insight how hard it is to work around all of them and ask the question whether it it is the intention of patents that all innovations need to implement hundreds of time consuming workarounds.

Then one could cover whether buying a license for h.264 and creating dependent work is feasible. And of course we have this hilarious example of again a Motorola vs. Microsoft case: Banning Microsoft from selling Windows 7 and the Xbox in germany [1].

There are too many patents relevant to h.264.
It kind of worked until now because all of them were kind of at the MPEG-LA and they managed to sell licenses for all of them together but in reality anyone with such a patent who is not directly at the MPEG-LA can sue anybody who uses h.264 in a product.

But don't worry, we can suspend the patent system just fine if it affects a big company:

> Based on the evidence before it, the court finds that Microsoft has shown that a German injunction enjoining the sale of Microsoft Software and the Microsoft Xbox in the country of Germany will result [in] irreparable harm. Microsoft has provided this court with convincing evidence that it will lose market share, which will be difficult to regain, and suffer harm to its business reputation.

I'm sorry, I didn't follow fo a little moment? Infringing patents is just fine if you would be adversely affected by enforcing the law?

Wat.

[0] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

[1] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/20182089...
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I was being lackadaisical, deal with it.
Kudos, I adore this idea.

You should see if YC will fund η-Reduce during the next cycle. I can imagine them getting a kick out of funding their own disruption.
When iTunes came out, there was no way to buy music with it either. It was that way for several years.

Adding to that, when iTunes came out, most people didn't put any thought into ID3 tags. When they imported their music, their library became one big mess.

So much for ease of use for end users.
Save a bunch of time and just use Drools.
It's funny how a distracting website recommends you tools to avoid being distracted. Suppose I'm using this tool to block HN, now I feel like I'm missing out on a new tool! Geez.
I think automobiles work fine in most of the Bay Area (obviously excepting SF).
Personally I use Chrome Nanny[1] for this sort of thing, but it's a pretty interesting idea.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cljcgchbnolheggdga...
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> excluding software from patentability was an "odd way to divide up the world."

Here in Brazil software cannot be patented. We still write software, make money off software. In fact, in the last couple of years we're seeing a huge number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors migrating here, because the tech startup scene has been getting really hot.

The point is. Our industry doesn't need patents to exist. We do fine without it. Patents are just an artificial bandage trying to fix flaws in other industries. But these flaws doesn't exist in tech, so the artificial bandages are just getting in the way for no good reason.
> It would be a shame to turn it into a concrete jungle

Hi! I've lived in several coastal and Midwestern cities, and travelled many of the others. I have been to a number of foreign cities on three continents. I was stunned at how underdeveloped Silicon Valley is. Concrete jungles are awesome! They sound scary until you realize the modern alternative is the far more common concrete wastelands of suburbia: isolating, sterile, cultureless come to mind. Tokyo, Manhatten, downtown SF: they are the most human, inspiring places on earth.

> We ... are both right

Here's what kills me about arguments like this: they're conversation killers. The argument deserves to be had. Instead, you're playing the general good will against itself for some karma points. To hell karma points! Fight for what you believe in! Anything less is a vote for the status quo.

I've moved 17 times. I believe in the concrete jungle.
How are his comments censored? I managed to read them perfectly fine. Censoring would be removal of a comment, not changing the font colour.
I've been looking all over for such a situation--can you show a link to one such house? I'm not convinced they exist.
You're correct, as many of these hacks to fall down in many cases or in unexpected ways. We've got hacks upon hacks to get them to work decently! These are items we (or tools) can manage though.

From our user perspective, non-transparent PNG in IE6 is the major problem. Partial transparency and 24-bit color support are vital for artist assets and not having them can influence the entire design.
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Where is the evidence for a 10% YOY increase?

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Nice effort. Having tried RescueTime and more crazy tools last year, I realized it's in the doing. If you enjoy it nothing can distract you. If you really don't enjoy it from inside (i.e. if your ends are not aligned with the going), nothing can help you. It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Spending 3 days on that = lesser distractions for long time.
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Rather than filling in the land between 101 and 280, which would turn into LA-esque traffic nightmares, why not expand into the East Bay or farther south of San Jose?
Easy for you to say now. The patent was awarded more than 30 years ago.
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You have misunderstood me, so let me give you an example.

When I used to live in the Mission District of San Francisco, sometimes "poor, urban" type people would stand around on the sidewalk and street in front of my window and yell at each other for hours in the early in the morning. (My guess is it had something to do with pimping and prostitution.) If I lived in an outer suburb of San Francisco (Walnut Creek miles from a BART station for example), people like that would have a hard time getting to my street, because most of them do not have cars; and since there would be nothing near my home besides other homes, it would be a boring environment for them unless perhaps they are into jogging or walking their dog or something like that. Ditto the people who used to park across the street and play their car stereo really loud. And the guy with the pick-up truck who was helping his friend move and left his car alarm on the most sensitive setting, so that it would go off every time a car passed by it. The French and other nations on the continent of Europe are much more accepting than Americans of the use various policing, administrative and legal procedures to encourage the aforementioned individuals to stop the aforementioned behaviors and conform to a quieter or more conventional patterns of behavior. This is an example of what I meant when I said that Europeans tolerate more onerous restrictions on individual liberty than Americans do, and this is a significant part of why IMO wealthy people in France mostly consider the core of Paris a nice place to live whereas wealthy people in the U.S. mostly do not want to live in American inner cities -- at least they do not want to after they turn 30 or so.
> There isn't a guide and every problem requires actual
> thought and understanding. Memorization will do nothing
> for you.

Memorization will do a lot for you. First of all it will get the building blocks for all that "thought and understanding" into your head. Just like lego: you may arrange bricks in very creative and novel ways, but bricks must be there to begin with.
This is pretty misleading because San Jose's density is very uneven. There are large parts of the city that are completely uninhabited.
I do have a degree in computer science so I know about state machines. Yet I don't use them at all in my code. Am I missing a great opportunity? I know it is close to impossible to answer that question without knowing the problem space, but perhaps there is a nice article about solving (common) problems with state machines?
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