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It ran on a netbook and was actually controlling a browser and copying and pasting. It's not optimized, but it got the job done, so I'll applaud anyway. Great a
by lstamour 13y ago
It ran on a netbook and was actually controlling a browser and copying and pasting. It's not optimized, but it got the job done, so I'll applaud anyway. Great article, I expect we'll see more like this soon. ;-)
- lstamour 13y agoOh and if you're nice on Netflix's servers, perhaps at 1 request a second, it would still take 25 minutes to run through 90,000 requests without the overhead of the browser. Sounds like they averaged one request every 24 seconds.
- tonfa 13y agoIt actually looks pretty wasteful, since it probably needed to load the full webpage instead of just the html.
- ihsw 13y agoIt was enough for the author to write a good story on it. Wastefulness be damned, it got the job done.