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“Being part of Netflix is like being part of an Olympic team,” the company said in a written statement Oh please. Get over yourselves.
by booleandilemma 8y ago
“Being part of Netflix is like being part of an Olympic team,” the company said in a written statement
Oh please. Get over yourselves.
- walshemj 8y agoNetflix is a fracking online video store for F^%k's sake - not Bell labs
- pavon 8y agoWell, it's not like Olympic athletes are doing anything new and innovative. They are just the best at doing what millions of other people also do. That seems like a decent analogy for Netflix whose basic task isn't groundbreaking, but who has to manage doing it at a scale that rivals anyone else in the industry.
- hueving 8y agoIt's not a good analogy because it doesn't require individuals at the top of their field. The only reason Netflix is winning is because they have massive amounts of content and integration into many devices. Both of those are business arrangements and have no requirements for the best engineers in the world. Just competent ones.
- tinus_hn 8y agoThat is not completely true, it would be very easy to start a company and acquire such a library and still fail. It’s also about the quality of the service, the apps and the rest of the experience.
- devmunchies 8y agoAnd athletes are just playing games. So what? They are trying to make a parallel for the expectations and rigor involved in maintaining peak performance.
- voltagex_ 8y agoNetflix don't need anyone defending them but they've done some really interesting research into delivering video at very low bitrates.