How many photos have ever been taken?
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How many photos have ever been taken?
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#2Does this then make the case for the "yet-another-photo-sharing-site"?
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#3Interesting. Incidentally, this would make a great Fermi type interview question, to replace how many gas stations or piano tuners are there in the US.
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#4Does this then make the case for the "yet-another-photo-sharing-site"?
I think the need for diverse photo sharing sites is only slightly smaller than the need for diverse word sharing sites.
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#5Interesting. Incidentally, this would make a great Fermi type interview question, to replace how many gas stations or piano tuners are there in the US.
Might be hard to estimate anything but the Facebook numbers, though. I would have a hard time estimating anything to do with the silver halide - annual consumption? Annual silver mining? etc.
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#6Interesting. Incidentally, this would make a great Fermi type interview question, to replace how many gas stations or piano tuners are there in the US.
I still don't understand how a Fermi question makes for a good interview question. How can you make reasonable estimates about something you know nothing about?
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#7Interesting. Incidentally, this would make a great Fermi type interview question, to replace how many gas stations or piano tuners are there in the US.
I still don't understand how a Fermi question makes for a good interview question. How can you make reasonable estimates about something you know nothing about?
It's likely everyone you interview knows nothing about it, so it isolates logic and reasoning skills from previous knowledge. The accuracy isn't important.
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#8That picture with Facebook photos in comparison to the other major sites is impressive, I didn't realize they had that much dominace.
In other news, please, we haven't (IMO) solved the photo sharing/storing software problem. Snapjoy is close, but until I can have public photos, face (people) based grouping, and tags/event organization, it's not there yet.
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#9Footnote 2 is incorrect, the civil war happened in the 19th century, not 18th :)
Re: How many photos have ever been taken?
#10That picture with Facebook photos in comparison to the other major sites is impressive, I didn't realize they had that much dominace. In other news, please, we haven't (IMO) solved the photo sharing/storing software problem. Snapjoy is close, but until I can have public photos, face (people) based grouping, and tags/event organization, it's not there yet.
That image is wrong and misleading.
Facebook: 140000000000 photos
Flicker: 6000000000 photos
Instagram: 150000000 photos
LoC: Wikipedia says 12000000 which is around the "Facebook has 10000 times more" so let's use that.
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Let LoC be a square of 1 pixel side lengths.
Instagram is 12.5 times as much. So the area would be ~13 square pixels, that leads to side lengths of 3.5 pixels.
Flickr is 500 times the LoC -> 500 square pixels -> square with sides of 22 pixels
Facebook is 12000 the LoC times -> 12000 square pixels -> square with sides of 110 pixels
As image: http://i.imgur.com/gCjqV.png
Ouch.