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by elq 14y ago
http://movies.netflix.com/ or http://dvd.netflix.com/ A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws? Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://s
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by elq 14y ago
The update I heard was (essentially) 'Another update from Amazon: Looks like it was a power issue for one facility that services a particular AZ in us-east-1, flipped to generator, now back on power and in recovery mode.'
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by elq 14y ago
'tis what I heard on an outage call...
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by elq 14y ago
power outage in one of their AZ's. Only after lots of machines died did the generator kick on. Lovely.
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by elq 14y ago
And this can solved, for the purposes of a rank beginner, with a $80 setup by a competent guitar tech.
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by elq 14y ago
Exactly. I work on the cinematch team at netflix. The several hundred blended algorithms that was output of the grand prize winning team is very... impractical... for netflix' needs. We cherry picked (and then modified) the best of the bunc
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by elq 15y ago
It's about damm time. This would've been nice a week ago when I deleted 140K items from a bucket that were moved elsewhere. The deletes took _14 hours_.
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by elq 15y ago
and ironically, my employer has hired at least one dim bulb from Google.
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by elq 15y ago
Please note that it was Starz who had a contract with sony that had subscriber count as a term in the contract, not netflix.
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by elq 15y ago
He pulled that information out of thin air. It is not true.
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by elq 15y ago
As evidenced by?
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by elq 15y ago
Meg has a net worth north of $1B...
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by elq 15y ago
I once got a chance to talk to Meg when I worked at eBay. After the, very brief, interaction I dubbed her "Queen Margaret" as the look on her face suggested that rabble like me shouldn't be seen, at least by the aristocracy. Also, across th
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by elq 15y ago
correlation != causation. the 28-day window was solely a way to lower the cost of buying dvd's. Those savings went into buying more streaming licenses. And the the grandparent - the dvd company isn't _required_ to work with the content crea
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by elq 15y ago
I am a netflix employee. I hold my employer to certain standards and I do not defend anything they do automatically - for instance, I thought the way the plan split/price hike was communicated was just awful. So I'm not trolling. When I fir
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by elq 15y ago
I believe speed was one of the things Netflix wanted to communicate with the otherwise unfortunate name "Qwikster".
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by elq 15y ago
> That was the reason behind the original split in the services No. Not at all. The plans were split in preparation for the company split. This has been in planning for a long time.
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by elq 15y ago
I honestly don't care how Apple runs it's business. I don't work for apple, I do, on the other hand, work for netflix, and not having to worry about DVDs will be a nice relief.
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by elq 15y ago
I feel pretty comfortable saying that will NEVER EVER happen, at least as long as Reed is still the CEO.
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by elq 15y ago
I'm quite certain that my views on yahoo are biased. Nearly no one I've interviewed from yahoo has bad-mouthed their former employer, so my negative bias is from working with people that have passed the technical interview and have been hir
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by elq 15y ago
I question yahoo's engineering chops 4 out of 5 times after interviewing hotshots from search, ads, or research. After interviewing dozens of folks from yahoo, I've pained the following picture about the engineering there - the vast majorit
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by elq 15y ago
No. Netflix uses AWS for nearly everything (including transcoding videos) other than streaming bits and a subset of other processes (PCI type stuff).
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by elq 15y ago
I know you are wrong. We've hired lots of folks from yahoo to work on infrastructure and one guy from reddit to be a cloud SRE. but we've yet to hire a security guy from sony.
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by elq 15y ago
Netflix does that - http://i.imgur.com/OHu8n.jpg
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by elq 15y ago
There are several reasons Netflix isn't more transparent: 1) Contract windows are of deep interest to competitors. 2) Contracts are frequently re-negotiated before they end.
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by elq 15y ago
I'm pretty sure nostrademons works for google...
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by elq 15y ago
only the ipad app is like that now. The iphone version has been "native" for quite a while now.
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by elq 15y ago
I work on the cinematch team at netflix... I've reviewed all of the winning code... your characterization is incorrect. The netflix prize would not have been won when it was without rbm.
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by elq 15y ago
how many times are you going to post this??
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by elq 15y ago
(x = "x") vs ("x" = x) see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214031/is-constant-compar...

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