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Fugitive Wirecard ex-Mgr Marsalek allegedly behind Russian spy ring (German)

Might be Google Cloud outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29243753

Other founder here. Coming at this from another angle: people in film approach me with ideas for products, and always ask "where can I find a coder?" The only answer I have for the…

Hi, other founder here. Does "SaaS" have to be synonymous with a subscription business model?

Hi, Indie Hacker here who also has some experience with politicized corporate environments. I’d like to encourage you to ignore some of the bad advice in this thread. Sounds like y…

3:1 would be an extremely low -- I've never seen a shooting ratio that low in my life. Shooting just 4.5 hours of footage for a 1.5 hour film, for example, is unheard of. Even a 10…

Archive-by-VM has been attempted from time to time. In the case of VFX there isn't a single server, but many different workstations, servers, render blades, etc. So preserving the …

Agree with this statement. Future-proofing was, however, a happy side-effect.

Most VFX shots loop through not one but several software packages. Sometimes even through multiple VFX vendors. Project files are proprietary and become inaccessible over time. And…

Saying that Medium needs to hire writers misses the point entirely. Medium is a platform--not a publisher or a content studio. SV doesn't like the "studio" business model because i…

Yep. Tricked-out gaming rigs catching up with the heavy-iron graphics workstations was hugely disruptive. Low-overhead boutiques could suddenly do the same work as high-overhead fa…

Pro was always a stepchild at Apple. Steve Jobs never stopped by NAB for the Final Cut Pro press events. And more than a decade ago I started seeing middle managers being "promoted…

Small, but important distinction: Studios don't make content. Studios made deals. Film production is a smiling curve: on the left you have "development"; on the right, distribution…

There are two kinds of "disruption": * The first merely inconveniences people who already work in a given industry, by forcing them to learn new tools or workflows. * The second un…

Hi, I'm the guy who wrote this article. Good comments. Some thoughts: * It takes a lot of people to write software, too. Those SoMoLo SaaS world-changers don't design and code them…

Guess I'll start working on the algorithms to capture that regulatory system. Who wants to be co-founder?