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mod6: yeah,
the documentation says
that you need
to 'create a ~/.wot directory' -- which will have
to change, but 'you need
to create' is
the hint in
there.
mod6: ok, No,
the .wot dir must be created by hand.
mod6: like Mr. P. said,
there is no way I'm gonna be able
to keep up with all of
the feature requests here as well.
mod6: someone is gonna have
to
take over V
mod6: maybe it just doesn't pull
the keys any more.
punkman: /me has cases of negatives and film slides, looked into digitizing, came back with ain't nobody got
time for
that
mod6: we've been
through
this.
mod6: Any
thoughts
there?
mod6: mircea_popescu: going back
to
the .wot dir being created by default in
the `pwd` of V : I would
think
that perhaps .seals should go in
the same place as well; `pwd`.
☟︎ shinohai: ^ got
to say, his bash scripting is art
mircea_popescu: Quennesson had noted
that
the more photos he
took,
the less likely he was ever
to look at any one of
them ever again. "People
take more and more photos, but paradoxically,
they become more and more disconnected from
them," he said last month in a conference room at
their co-working space. "You don’t want
to go back
to
this whole life
that you’ve captured, which is counterintuitive. It's
the most important
thing —
mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact :
the classical gestapo didn't know what
to do
to keep
the idiot population from givingthem
tips.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and for
this exact reason medicine is a losing proposition. except
THAT gets swept up into "obamacare" and so on.
there's not going
to be an obamacare for photographolalia, your ft meade wet dreams notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: after reading
that sort of nonsense i half expect
the author has some "science" in a jar in his basement
mircea_popescu: "By 2009 both men had left Apple and were working at Cooliris, which makes photo viewing software. Latour set up an office for Cooliris in Japan, and after spending some
time
traveling
through Asia with his girlfriend, he became frustrated with how difficult it was
to store and organize all
the photos he was
taking. He discussed an early idea for a product with Quennesson, who was interested in using math and science
t mircea_popescu: people
take pictures in
total violation of
the economic cost of
the energy expenditure for
the camera, let alone any other considerations.
mircea_popescu: if you pay 35k monthly for hardware you'd better be doing something more interesting
than "we store 400 million photos"
mircea_popescu: "Out of
the picture: why
the world's best photo startup is going out of business. Everpix was great.
This is how it died.
The immediate concern in
the room was a forthcoming bill from Amazon Web Services, which hosts
the 400 million photos stored with Everpix;
the
team estimated
the bill would be about $35,000."
mircea_popescu: We should have packed it up early right
then, but we felt like we had already gone
too far
to quit. We rebuilt (and re-designed)
the majority of
the software, got approved by Amazon, and reached out
to over 1,700 artists (each individually
through different platforms). We got between 1 and 10 artists interested. Again,
this just screams “PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY!” But we kept going.
mircea_popescu: "Our first beta
test was a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money
transfer issues. Fans were able
to participate in
the sale, but we were unable
to capture
their billing. We ended up paying
the artist out of our own pocket and giving everyone his music for free (and we never
told him
that happened until now)." <<< derps were going
to bypass amazon on an a
mircea_popescu: hard
to beat "cheap calories" as a warm blooded lifeform.
mircea_popescu: "More importantly
though, people really didn’t really LIKE anything about our product. No one
that used
the service
thought it was
that cool. In fact, some people
that participated in
the sale didn’t even like our “dynamic pricing” system."
mircea_popescu: punkman i never had a
tailor go "breathe in" "now exhale" before.
punkman: static scan doesn't give enough information for
tailor, never mind machine designer
mircea_popescu: a)
the people who had a dacha were happy as is, no need
to chase it
mircea_popescu has enough experience with 1990s state of
the art 3d modelling for games on basis of laser scanning nude female models
to not need
the first part explaiend.
mircea_popescu: "The single factory willing
to work with us said
they’d quote on our items while showing us around
the facility. When our guide accidentally led us full-circle, we caught
their product
team copying our patterns and
that was
the end of our sourcing
trip."
mircea_popescu: recast of 5000 units per style was daily output for
these guys."
mircea_popescu: We added a line of jersey basics
to our denim line, packed up our lives, ended
the lease on our house, loaded our portfolios and patterns into suitcases and boarded a plane for Malaysia, where I had some contacts in
the manufacturing industry. At one factory after another, we were wooed by
the boss, we got
the grand
tour, we were asked our volume projections…. and we were shown
the door. Our (very inflated) annual fo
mircea_popescu: "So we decided
to wholesale, on
the condition we could establish a cost-effective supply chain.
This might all seem like a juvenile, ill-informed, poorly researched, gamble. And it was mostly, but I heard an irrepressible voice day and night,asking what if it works?
punkman: speaking of clothing and software,
there really is nothing reasonable out
there
mircea_popescu: "Why did we launch with 12 million variants? Because we
thought we needed
to. Would
the market have been happy
to customise just
the length? If we’d done proper validation, we would have known,
that yes, it would have been happy — thrilled even. It only became apparent,
too late,
that 90% of our orders were for very
typical jeans from atypically
tall women. Stonewashed stovepipes with a 36-inch leg, anyone?"
punkman: mircea_popescu: link
to
that?
mircea_popescu: s hours, and when I went off
to a night job managing a restaurant, she’d code, with Sex and
the City for company, until 1 or 2am when I stumbled in again from night shift."
mircea_popescu: All of
them said
the site we wanted was impossible, apart from one who quoted upward of $40k for build, excluding
the photography and image editing
that would be needed. At
this stage we only had $20k
total capital for
the entire venture — sampling, pattern making, inventory and production. So my co-founder
taught herself
to code. She worked day and night — we did all
the operational planning during busines
mircea_popescu: customers needed
to see exactly what
they were going
to get.
mircea_popescu: "Partnering with a uni friend, we pitched our concept
to a whole bunch of web developers we knew.
The challenge we posed was
that it couldn’t be customisation by drop-down list or radio buttons (solutions we were offered repeatedly).
This was 2005. We needed
to show customers high-quality photographic customisation, where every selection changes your product. Custom-made product required a strict no-refund policy, so
mircea_popescu forces slavegirls
to eat livers. it's a show, i
tell you.
mircea_popescu: yup.
take chicken liver. i love it. so does everyone who had sane enough parents
to have it as a kid.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:04:16; punkman: mircea_popescu: more along
the lines of "Why don't you
try being a gluten-tard? Might be just
the
thing for you"
mircea_popescu: "flowtab joined my
two life's passions, inept geekery and strip clubs"
mircea_popescu: rly in
those bars without being
there. It quickly become a distraction
to our operations in San Francisco."
mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and
two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went
to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs),
this was
the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were
tightening up our sales process, but it was hard
to market ourselves prope
☟︎ punkman: mircea_popescu: more along
the lines of "Why don't you
try being a gluten-tard? Might be just
the
thing for you"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform complicated. but
their key people don't actually buy into
the stupid.
punkman: I saw gluten-free bread in
the local bakery earlier
this year.
The only bread
that had a brochure and brand-name. Didn't last long.