How Criterion Hones Its Restoration Magic for HD (14)
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Lee Kline, the Technical Director at The Criterion Collection, was in Italy. He had tracked down an original print of Il Posto, the classic 1961 Ermanno Olmi film, and he needed a digital master of it. The problem? It was far too valuable and delicate to ship to the States, so he had find a local studio to handle the transfer for him. Sitting down in the lab, the local technician started the process of ...
Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves (26)
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It's a particularly busy week for me: on top of a few looming deadlines, I'll be at Business of Software 2008 in Boston. So, I figured it'd be the perfect opportunity to revisit some classics. The Complicator's Gloves was originally published on January 16th, 2007. Another fun, tangentially related article is The Complicator's Bicycle. Good software is constantly under attack on several fronts. First, there are The Amateurs who somehow manage to land that hefty ...
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Todd said:
This story holds a special place in my heart since I have worked in academia for 6 years!
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Lerch said:
One of the most profound Daily WTFs ever. And the (de)motivator at the end is practically a zen koan. "Take a look at your first revision. Then think to yourself, 'gloves'"
Decision-Making Ability Matters More Than Experience (2)
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Wisdom from Tyler Cowen in this IM transcript with Ross Douthat on the Sarah Palin VP pick:Everyone is harping on the experience issue. The biggest question is how good a decision-maker you are and how "meta-rational" you are, namely having the ability to recognize your own imperfections. I don't know how she does on those counts, but those are the more honest questions, not whether she can name or understand all the different factions in ...
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library | The Art of Manliness (16)
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Written by: Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay Photo by the nonist There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your life. From a seemingly infinite list of books of anecdotal or literal ...
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markdotnet said:
This is a lot like the top 100 movies list. I wonder how long it'll take me to get through them.
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Brian M said:
Looks like I've got some reading to do.
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Cornerhouse said:
as we know, I like book lists. after a quick tour, I count only 14 of these that I haven't read. I must be truly manly.
A Gentle Introduction To Learning Calculus | BetterExplained (5)
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I have a love/hate relationship with calculus: it demonstrates the beauty of math and the agony of math education. Calculus relates topics in an elegant, brain-bending manner. My closest analogy is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: once understood, you start seeing Nature in terms of survival. You understand why drugs lead to resistant germs (survival of the fittest). You know why sugar and fat taste sweet (encourage consumption of high-calorie foods in times of scarcity). It ...
How to Use Amazon S3 & PHP to Dynamically Store and Manage Files with Ease - NETTUTS (3)
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A couple of weeks ago NETTUTS posted an introductory tutorial to using Amazon’s Simple Storage System (S3). Being able to upload an unlimited number of files for hardly any money is great, but it would be even better if your users could upload files from your website. That way you wouldn’t have to worry about the size of your web server for a second. Let’s try! Basically what we’re going to do is use a ...
Revisiting the Term Sheet (6)
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In 2005, my partner Jason Mendelson and I wrote a long series of posts describing all of the parts of a typical venture capital Term Sheet. We started on 1/3/05 with a post on Price and finished up on 8/23/05 with a post on Indemnification and Assignment. Of all of the stuff I've written over the past four years, my stats continue to tell me that stuff we wrote in the Term Sheet series is ...
Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities (41)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about and the fact that Laconi.ca, the code that powers Identi.ca, makes this very easy for anyone to do. I realized this today when Jay ...
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dd said:
Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it.
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Calvin said:
As Jesse Stay states, the true power of Identi.ca is in the development of a protocol for federated microblogging/messaging.
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runbuck said:
This is an interesting platform. A portable twitter. If i read it right you can use it in one social network and then, on another network using the same opensource base, you can login and see the people you subscribe to over there but content filtered to that site. Domain specific twittering w/ a single login.
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zemote said:
Wondering how to integrate Identica with Edmodo
Web delivers new worry for parents: Digital drugs (7)
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We all know that music can alter your mood. Sad songs can make you cry. Upbeat songs may give you an energy boost. But can music create the same effects as illegal drugs? This seems like a ridiculous question. But websites are targeting your...
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Why do I feel like Kim Komando is trolling me?
Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So (28)
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[Basic Repository] commands are needed by people who have arepository --- that is everybody, because every working tree ofgit is a repository.In addition, [Individual Developer (Standalone)] commands areessential for anybody who makes a commit, even for somebody whoworks alone.If you work with other people, you will need commands listed inthe [Individual Developer (Participant)] section as well.People who play the [Integrator] role need to learn some morecommands in addition to the above.[Repository Administration] commands are for ...
