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This is quite the conversation...

Seen a few attempts at this.. this one seems quite appealing.

I think the other post above is referring to the version of a Toy Story sequel that was in production down in Burbank at Disney in the early 2000's (after TS2 came out). That produ…

scrapped - after we got this version of the film back, we decided to rewrite the story. that meant that we substantially rebuild the film in the next year, even after we had recove…

OK, yeah, that would have been another approach. Perhaps the emotion of the moment motivated us to get the machine back on-prem as soon as possible.

Also, here's the HackerNews thread from 2012 that answers a bunch of additional questions too... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798

Hi folks, I'm the Oren mentioned in the story(ies) above. This comes up on HN every year or two. Quick reference to lots more detail posted here -> https://www.quora.com/Did-Pixar-…

That’s certainly possible. But if folks on this site don’t know how ToyStory or JurassicPark were rendered back in the day, let alone like almost every movie with CG in it since, t…

I developed the curriculum for and then taught the first Pixar University course for newly hired Technical Directors (10 weeks, full time, from day 1 when you started). That was pr…

I had been a beekeeper for several years, my daughter manifested an anaphylactic reaction to a sting a year ago, and sadly our bees are now in the Central Valley, but... Yes, the w…

For those interested, Beekeeping For Dummies ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470430656 ) is actually quite a good way to start. We've had our queen replaced by our swarm and it was qui…

And a link to one of the previous threads here on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798

For more details, here's my answer in a Quuora thread from 2 years ago... http://qr.ae/sjteB

Has anyone calculated the energy usage of sending a 1kg package 10km alongside 100s of other packages on a diesel powered UPS truck vs sending it by itself, hanging below a battery…

Has anyone calculated the energy usage of sending a 1kg package 10km alongside 100s of other packages on a diesel powered UPS truck vs sending it by itself, hanging below a battery…

I believe Microsoft took one round of venture financing, and that VC (Dave Marquardt) is both still quite an active investor (as founder of August Capital) and is also still on Mic…

aka Top-13 list of key things to know before joining Elon on Mars, all from the Rocket Man Nasa guy.