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Why is it that every post about a company ( Disney today, Stripe yesterday, Microsoft, Gitlab, Bloomberg, , etc ), the top comment is always a PR-style praise of the company? It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".
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> media is not fungible. It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.
It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
It's a tooling problem more than a budget one.
In fifty years I think we'll be telling the machines what stories we want to experience. But between now and that dreamy future, there are intermediate points along the path that empower individual or small groups of creatives to lift mountains - I think of it much in the same way as languages and tools and libraries make it so we don't have to string together vacuum tubes to solve our problems. Think about the kinds of problems filmmakers face: writing a cohesive narrative, finding and lighting a scene, editing massive amounts of video. It's all just a problem of tooling.
When there is a way that lets you or anyone with an ounce of creativity turn their dreams into polished, watchable content, it will democratize storytelling.
I worked at Disney for many years. Fun fact: Disney has no CTO...just EVPs per division. This is, in part, because Iger considers himself the CTO Of Disney. That may seem funny to HN, because you’ll never hear him say anything about Kubernetes or Cloud, but he’s made some pretty big technology bets in his tenure that have delivered on Disney’s goals. Disney+ is actually the product of a 2B acquisition of BAMTech. Dis…
> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening. Weren't Bob Iger and Steve Jobs close or at least friends? That kind of echoes Jobs' sentiment about "technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married wi…
Why is it that every post about a company ( Disney today, Stripe yesterday, Microsoft, Gitlab, Bloomberg, , etc ), the top comment is always a PR-style praise of the company? It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
Imagine a world where you could . It's a tooling problem more than a budget one. In fifty years I think we'll be telling the machines what stories we want to experience. But between now and that dreamy future, there are intermediate points along the path that empower individual or small groups of creatives to lift mountains - I think of it much in the same way as languages and tools and libraries make it so we don't…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
Imagine a world where you could . It's a tooling problem more than a budget one. In fifty years I think we'll be telling the machines what stories we want to experience. But between now and that dreamy future, there are intermediate points along the path that empower individual or small groups of creatives to lift mountains - I think of it much in the same way as languages and tools and libraries make it so we don't…
Why is it that every post about a company ( Disney today, Stripe yesterday, Microsoft, Gitlab, Bloomberg, , etc ), the top comment is always a PR-style praise of the company? It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening. Weren't Bob Iger and Steve Jobs close or at least friends? That kind of echoes Jobs' sentiment about "technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married wi…
TFA has a touching blurb about just how close they were. The 2nd person Jobs confided in when he was diagnosed with cancer was Iger (after his wife).
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> media is not fungible. It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.
It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
If you have ever seen the prequels, neither can George Lucas....
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It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
I can't make a star wars movie. If you have ever seen the prequels, neither can George Lucas....
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