{"id":2075,"date":"2012-08-17T19:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-08-17\/2075"},"modified":"2012-08-17T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:28:26","slug":"calling-it-like-i-see-it-but-do-i-see-it-correctly-stippleit-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-08-17\/2075","title":{"rendered":"Calling It Like I See It (But Do I See It Correctly?): Stippleit.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I received an email today from someone at stippleit.com<\/a>, asking whether I might<\/span> be\nable to discuss Lightroom-plugin development with them. I get this<\/span> kind of\nrequest fairly often. As is often<\/span> the case, I had never<\/span> heard of them, so\nI checked<\/span> out their website.<\/p>\n\n

They have a video on the home page claiming that with their\nservice, you can keep track of your photos on the web wherever they go, no\nmatter what anyone does to them. This seems fanciful (impossible) to me,\nbut we all know Author Clark's third law<\/b> (“Any sufficiently advanced\ntechnology is indistinguishable from magic<\/i>”), so maybe I was<\/span> merely\nlacking the technical skill to understand?<\/p>\n\n

So, I replied<\/span> that I'd be happy to discuss their Lightroom needs, but added...<\/p>\n\n

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\nIn looking at the video on your home page, I'm having<\/span> a difficult<\/span> time\nimagining that what is being presented is actually possible. It claims<\/span> to\noffer the ability to “manage your photos as they travel the web”, and that\nyou keep an author connected to the photos “wherever they go”. “The web”\nand “wherever” are very big spaces. Did you perhaps<\/span> intended to convey that\nthey work only where some kind of proprietary viewing method is used?<\/p>\n\n

I ask because the engineer in me tries to imagine how that presentation can\nbe honest, and I can't<\/span> come up with anything. Hopefully I'll find out that\nit's my technical skill that's lacking instead of your integrity. In either<\/span> case, those are points we both want to understand before moving forward\nwith anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

I received a very short reply thanking me for my response, adding “Doesn't sound like there's a good<\/span> fit<\/b>”. Doh!<\/p>\n\n

So, one can surmise that I was correct: their presentation is deceitful, or I'm lacking the technical skill to understand.<\/p>\n\n

I wonder which it is. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received an email today from someone at stippleit.com, asking whether I might be able to discuss Lightroom-plugin development with them. I get this kind of request fairly often. As is often the case, I had never heard of them, so I checked out their website.<\/p>

They have a video on the home page claiming that with their service, you can keep track of your photos on the web wherever they go, no matter what anyone does to them. This seems fanciful (impossible) to me, but we all know Author Clark's third law<\/b> (\"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}