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Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by hellojohnbuck »

gnerd00 wrote: post #10

TIFF indeed -- I recall the floppy disk for Mac mailed from Seattle with the TIFF spec printed on paper. A few weeks later, another graphics editor with TIFF support. I never, ever heard the name Carlsen until today. Thank you for this article

thanks gnerd

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by OisinMoran »

andrehacker wrote: post #24

Am I missing something ? The article is great but the web site is supposedly related to a book "inventing the future".. which is nowhere to be found. Other than a big, slowly loading graphic, 3 posts and indexes for the book... the site doesn't provide a clue about where to acquire the actual (PDF only?) book. I assume you have to sign up to find out more ? On the web I can only find articles about the book. So.. wha…

I had a similar issue, clicking the author's name gets you to a decent page, but yeah I'd actually prefer if he made it a bit easier to buy the book! I'll have to get it now after such a nice article

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by tianshuo »

Thank you John Buck for this article, it is so interesting to read how something so common was invented. RIP Mr Tiff

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by mikestorrent »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #20
mikestorrent wrote: post #3

Pretty amazing investigation work. Very nice to see that credit is being given where due.

I participated in creating a history book, in regard to an organization in which I’m involved. It took eight years, and was a lot of work. The process that he mentioned is quite familiar. Many of the folks we interviewed have since passed away. Some, before the book was complete.

Threads like this are, in a sense, like a digital wake - we can all mourn Carlsen a little bit now. I remember the first time I saw a .TIF - on Rainbow Paint, a free paint program bundled with a Dexxa mouse my old man bought as an upgrade for our 286. To me, running across a random .tif somewhere was such a delight, something I could open as a surprise, maybe re-use parts of, zoom into, etc. or share on a disk with a friend. It's quaint, now...

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by andrehacker »

hellojohnbuck wrote: post #29
andrehacker wrote: post #24

Am I missing something ? The article is great but the web site is supposedly related to a book "inventing the future".. which is nowhere to be found. Other than a big, slowly loading graphic, 3 posts and indexes for the book... the site doesn't provide a clue about where to acquire the actual (PDF only?) book. I assume you have to sign up to find out more ? On the web I can only find articles about the book. So.. wha…

hi andre, thanks for the feedback. there is a url link within the article to the book which uses a new self publishing method called books.by

Ah, I see, okay.

Based on the quality of the article, the subject matter of the book being right in the center of my wheelhouse and the references I could find on the internet, I just ordered a copy (apparently a paper copy), look forward reading it.

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by Nio1024 »

Respect to those unsung engineers who made such lasting contributions, and to the author as well. This kind of work is not easy, but truly meaningful. I do have a question, though: shouldn’t the creation of industry standards also allow individual attribution, similar to how patents credit inventors?

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

hellojohnbuck wrote: post #27
adzm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone can contact John Buck this sounds like information he'd be interested in. Also an interesting avenue for future investigative work.

thanks adam

Hey John, I'm just curious how people find these comments about "would be nice if X saw this" on HN. I don't think there's any pinging behavior. Did somebody message you? Did you just happen to read it? Do you have an eldritch curse that summons you when called by name?
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