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Thanks for explaining the slow-burn/patent correlation. I'm looking at Justin.tv, and I've never seen smooth live video online before. It's consistently smooth

by 13ren 18y ago

Thanks for explaining the slow-burn/patent correlation. I'm looking at Justin.tv, and I've never seen smooth live video online before. It's consistently smooth (though minor freeze-frames every so often). Your implementation is a better method for live video. Is this because your implementation is coded better - tighter, more efficient, cleverer - or is there a fundamental new insight behind it, that makes it faster?

emmett 18y ago
It's just better coded, for the most part. It was actually better before we started growing a lot; now we have scaling problems. We're working on smoothing everything out now. Of course, there have also been insights that I think may be fundamental, but they aren't patentable as far as we know.
- 13ren 18y ago
  Whenever clever people work on new problem-spaces (ie. not yet mined-out), they have good chances of being the ones to have the fundamentally new insights; so your odds are good. But the two kinds of technology-based businesses make me think of Google's technology: server implementation (fast results) and pagerank (relevant results).