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by elq 17y ago
I work for netflix. I also know that redbox is buying retail dvds ( http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-redbox4-2009dec04,0... ) netflix used retail dvds for years. AFAIK netflix stil does for certain low volume titles.
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by elq 17y ago
simply not true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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by elq 17y ago
"When Netflix or any other rental business buys DVDs, they don't just buy the same copy you and I do, but a rental version with different licensing terms which costs considerably more" Not true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doct
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by elq 17y ago
many families strongly encourage children to get a graduate degree.
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by elq 17y ago
The Roku runs linux...
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by elq 17y ago
"Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" by Stephen Marsland is very good if you want to see the ideas in code and if you're not mathematically ready for hastie or bishop. http://seat.massey.ac.nz/personal/s.r.marsland/MLBook.html
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by elq 17y ago
that would be nice... oh, wait a minute http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
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by elq 17y ago
Yes. I have a 3008 and I'm constantly distracted by the horrible plastic. I can't imagine how I use it daily... Now without the sarcasm - The monitor is fantastic. It's been fantastic for over a year. I really couldn't care less how the non
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by elq 17y ago
The tiny differences in implementation between the sun and ibm vm's is a regular source of deep and painful frustration for some of the people I work with.
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by elq 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=884858 already posted. already killed.
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by elq 17y ago
Reading comprehension for the win - "DVD will only be the "primary delivery format" at the company for the next two years, though he did add that it would stick around in some fashion for the next decade or two."
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by elq 17y ago
http://github.com/elq/dot-emacs/
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by elq 17y ago
http://github.com/elq/dot-emacs/
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by elq 17y ago
Since the contest is over all of the data has been donated to the UCI ML repo http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize The "secret" data set is in the file "judging.txt" in the grand_prize download.
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by elq 17y ago
Netflix certainly is hiring http://jobs.netflix.com/cojobsFlix.asp?Region=LosGatos
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by elq 17y ago
The comments the from first time this was posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741438 (three whole days ago) might be interesting.
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Netflix Prize 2(netflixprize.com)
77 points by elq 17y ago|7 comments
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by elq 17y ago
It's certainly not a bad (for me) now, but at the time I considered it a bad because I wasn't used to seeing three people get fired in two days.
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by elq 17y ago
No one I've worked with has ever been sent packing, but to the best of my understanding it's generally not a surprise and people are given chances.
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by elq 17y ago
Not perfect. But they really mean it when they say "adequate performance gets a generous severance package".
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by elq 17y ago
Sure. Here's some banal stuff. If you have anything in particular you'd like to know, ask. Good - A few days after I joined I decided I wanted a much bigger monitor and several gigs more ram. After hemming and hawing for a day trying to fig
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by elq 17y ago
No, I'm a jerk not a constant asshole. Most companies try real hard not to hire idiots. Netflix is such a company. Orders are not given at netflix. I choose the project I want to work on. Hence my comment "Context vs. Control", it's taken r
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by elq 17y ago
At netflix, when they say they don't want "brilliant jerks", what they mean is they don't want "constant ass holes". Context vs. Control.
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by elq 17y ago
they're 100% accurate. This deck is very similar (if not identical, it's been a while) to the one you're expected to read at the "meet with Reed" meeting one month or so after you're hired. Netflix is, without a doubt, the single best compa
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By a nose... or is it a hair... - last day of Netflix Prize(pragmatictheory.blogspot.com)
3 points by elq 17y ago|0 comments
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by elq 17y ago
http://www.netflixprize.com//community/viewtopic.php?pid=923...
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by elq 17y ago
"The Ensemble was created by a merger between the two teams that appear on the leaderboard as "Grand Prize Team" and "Opera Solutions and Vandelay United"." And no one has officially won as the scores on the test set are not public.
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by elq 17y ago
no. it's over tomorrow morning at ~11:30am PST... there are a few complications that could cause an extension, but they're not likely.
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by elq 17y ago
Almost all of them are in places where there is no local or state sales tax.
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by elq 17y ago
Netflix has facilities in most states. Amazon would have to collect sales tax in most (if not all) of these states. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090714/amazon-buys-netflix-micr...

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