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91.
by elq 15y ago
It wants a camera so it can scan and ocr documents.
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by elq 16y ago
did you read that link? Balmer went nuts when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lucovsky quit
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by elq 16y ago
looking at the code, they've optimized for speed. And they also said - > We decided to optimize for speed rather than simplicity and even included special cases for short inputs.
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by elq 16y ago
I paid $400 for lifetime service via the vc2 drive sometime in mid 2005. I got about 2.5 years of usable service before I completely abandoned textdrive. An effective rate of $160/yr for really marginal shared hosting. I currently pay ~$215
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by elq 16y ago
now with less blogspam http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-and-design-of-u...
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by elq 16y ago
Reminds me of this story - http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/09/guest-post...
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by elq 16y ago
> There's a reason why the head of HBO and Time Warner are taking hard lines against Netflix A gift from my employer - http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kt8r19d1Kpw/TUCXRpFxEjI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/t_... (context - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/busin
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by elq 16y ago
IT fits under the operations umbrella. Engineering fits under the product development umbrella. We're very separate - cost center vs. profit center. Assuming the reviewer came from IT or another operations group, some of what was written is
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by elq 16y ago
Yes. Netflix's IT group (Sysadmin's, NOC people, Helpdesk, etc) went through a reorg about a year and a half ago. Lots of change. Not all of it good at the time, but in the end it did work out quite well.
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by elq 16y ago
every two weeks
101.
by elq 16y ago
I've worked at netflix for about three years. I'm a software engineer and work on personalization. In the time I've been there, not one of the 40 or so people that I know well or work with have been fired. One person I was acquainted with
102.
by elq 16y ago
Notice how they say - "primary content delivery network", primary not sole. netflix actually uses many cdns, including akamai and l3.
103.
by elq 16y ago
Yes. Caused both firefox 3.6.12 and safari 5.0.2 on osx to have fits. firefox on ubuntu and chrome seem to work without trouble.
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by elq 16y ago
Why is it that every time I visit scripting.com (about twice per year), I'm met with niggling little issues like reload loops or the lovely javascript link to the loopback address - " http://127.0.0.1:5337/scripting2/editor/controls?usernam
105.
by elq 16y ago
because there is no silverlight for iOS. Silverlight was chosen LONG ago (fall 2008). It was and is FAR better than the shitty windows media player version of streaming. Perhaps netflix has found other methods of DRM that the studios approv
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by elq 16y ago
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/52575/hd%20silverlight%20osx.png
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by elq 16y ago
silverlight supports a DRM implementation that the Studio's are happy with. The alternative would be flash (which is a steaming pile of shit for osx and linux) and DRM for flash is shockingly expensive. With silverlight, I can watch a 720p
108.
by elq 16y ago
I get your humor, I just wanted to be precise :)
109.
by elq 16y ago
yes. I can rent 9 tv episodes per month for the price of netflix's most common plan.
110.
by elq 16y ago
blockbuster also offers flat-rate subscription services.
111.
by elq 16y ago
no. Apple is a PPV vendor. If they offered a flat-rate subscription they'd be competing with Netflix; they're not.
112.
by elq 16y ago
As someone who's interviewed dozens of yahoo's fleeing the big purple Y over the past two or three years and I have seen no evidence what so ever that yahoo has a hacker culture. I've primarily been interviewing people from search and ads,
113.
by elq 16y ago
did you actually comprehend what lallysingh was saying? I'll summarize - many people who are buying kindle books are not using amazon hardware.
114.
by elq 16y ago
The content for Canada will be different than the content for the US. Different rights holders and different licensing. the SD streams are 480p, the HD streams are 720p.
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by elq 16y ago
There may or may not be announcements (cough http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix3803 ) but note that Adrian is one of the more senior cloud architecture guys at netflix - he's not a streaming guy.
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by elq 17y ago
there was a video taken during at least the welcome/panel session and the Mahout session. Which is fortunate because the most informational public exchanges occurred during those sessions (IMHO) and you'll also see how poorly organized the
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by elq 17y ago
bah. that's nothing! my team put over 3 billion rows into amazons cloud in a matter of hours without having to deal with the vagaries of sdb :) to the best of my knowledge, oracle was the bottleneck because the oracle instance is an actual
118.
by elq 17y ago
if you're a netflix member you can get a (not so close) approximation at http://www.netflix.com/LocalFavorites
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by elq 17y ago
I have zero interest in speculating on potential future actions by the movie studios and distributors. I don't have a working crystal ball. Yes. I write software for netflix. Do you honestly believe that Apple has any choice as to how much
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by elq 17y ago
public screening rights are not covered in first sale doctrine.

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