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Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)

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Re: Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)

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Post by davidferguson »

diskzero wrote: post #58
davidferguson wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh you worked on How to Train Your Dragon ? That's my favourite movie in the world! Really random follow up question - there's a How to Train Your Dragon advert that I assume played before the first film in cinemas, advertising the cinema's popcorn and other concessions, but the only two copies on YouTube are in really terrible quality. (one in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f37fI14Ne0I , the other in Finnis…

You could try reaching out to Kate Swanborg. That sounds like some sort of partnership deal that she may have been involved with. Worth a try!

Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated! Any ideas how to get in touch? If not I'll try my luck at public twitter (which has had a 50/50 success rate for me in the past...)

Re: Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)

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Post by sixothree »

pstuart wrote: post #43
dingosity wrote: post #4

This is a great example of why it's a good idea to always test your backups.

In the olden days when I was the admin for a small shop we would immediately restore the backup to a second system to be used as a playground. Win/win: verified restore and a place to test/train with production data.

Yup, just as long as none of the connection strings point to (and can reach) a prod database.

Re: Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)

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Post by diskzero »

davidferguson wrote: post #91
diskzero wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could try reaching out to Kate Swanborg. That sounds like some sort of partnership deal that she may have been involved with. Worth a try!

Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated! Any ideas how to get in touch? If not I'll try my luck at public twitter (which has had a 50/50 success rate for me in the past...)

Call the main switchboard at DWA? 1-818-695-5000 When I was there, there were actual live humans answering and sending calls to people.

Re: Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)

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Post by StevePerkins »

Everyone talking about backups, and the need to avoid blame during disaster recovery. And that's all great.

But MY big takeaway is the final section. After all that, the studio threw away the movie anyway. Had their people make a different movie, working 100 hours per week for 9 months straight. That sounds like an absolutely dystopian hellscape of a culture, and the tone of the article seems to celebrate it. Marveling that those people had the "opportunity" to experience that level of "camaraderie".

My first couple of jobs out of college were pretty "death march"-ish. And yeah, maybe there's something to having an experience or two like that under your belt when you're young and single. But this Pixar example here is just straight up abusive and exploitive, and I'm not sure that a celebratory lens is how we should best view it.

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