mibbitor

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by mibbitor 15y ago
"world's youngest MSP" is still pretty meaningless. I have no clue why this is even on hacker news, let alone top story.
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by mibbitor 15y ago
They got funding from Jeff Bezos.
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by mibbitor 15y ago
It's an orders of magnitude different problem. Taking photos is just recording light that exists. You can change the position, lighting, a few options on the camera, but it's easy enough to say that for a given location, probably a few thou
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by mibbitor 15y ago
And what about when your camera floats around automatically getting every available shot, every available composition, framing, leaving you to just select the best? There are only so many parameters that make up a recording of light. Sorry,
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by mibbitor 15y ago
I wasn't stating an opinion. I was stating the facts. As technology has progressed, it has meant that instead of very few producers and millions of consumers of 'content', now everyone produces content. That means the value of 'content' h
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by mibbitor 15y ago
> Taking good photographs is as hard as it always was. Untrue. With digital, you can take 1,000 photos and chances are one will be fantastic. You can brute force brilliance. That wasn't true before digital. Photos are simply recording s
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by mibbitor 15y ago
A webapp is run as a service. You're charging people for a service you provide. That makes it very hard to copy. A photo isn't a service. It's a collection of bytes that is trivial to copy. If you want to make money as a photographer, you n
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by mibbitor 15y ago
A friend told me a bizarre story... His local library also allows you to borrow eBooks. Apparently they work by "expiring" after some time limit. He went in to borrow an eBook, but the librarian said "Oh I'm sorry, that copy is currently on
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by mibbitor 15y ago
tv is not only watchable here, it's fantastically good quality programming.
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by mibbitor 15y ago
Not convinced they'll be able to gain much market in the UK. Very different from the US market.