male_salmon

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by male_salmon 11y ago
This New York Magazine article might help: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/they-were-quirk...
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Building the New Netflix Experience for TV(techblog.netflix.com)
2 points by male_salmon 13y ago|0 comments
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Shutterfly Acquires BorrowLenses(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by male_salmon 13y ago|0 comments
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HBO vs Netflix(avc.com)
2 points by male_salmon 14y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Facebook Gifts(newsroom.fb.com)
4 points by male_salmon 14y ago|1 comments
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The Recruiter Honeypot(ewherry.com)
655 points by male_salmon 14y ago|156 comments
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Netflix Opportunity to Change the World(slideshare.net)
1 points by male_salmon 15y ago|0 comments
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by male_salmon 15y ago
I might agree with you if Netflix ran their DVD business in a few other countries. That is not the case however. The DVD business is still profitable. Reed said it's unlikely he'll sell it for a long time.
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by male_salmon 15y ago
With billing, most of us already maintain different accounts with different e-commerce sites. One more is not that bad. Ratings on either Qwikster or Netflix will benefit you because of the improved recommendations. Yes, it's a shame they w
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by male_salmon 15y ago
As Reed says, the streaming business is global, but the DVD business is US-only. Maintaining code that services functions that apply in some locales but not others will slow down Netflix's ability to innovate.
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by male_salmon 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, why would maintaining two accounts be so painful? If that were so, wouldn't it be equally painful to maintain different social network accounts (assuming you have two or more).
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Reed Hastings responds to criticisms and announces Qwikster(blog.netflix.com)
130 points by male_salmon 15y ago|108 comments
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by male_salmon 16y ago
In Singapore, the drinking age is 18, so he actually would've been fine.
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ECMAScript.Next with David Herman of Mozilla(blog.mozilla.com)
2 points by male_salmon 16y ago|0 comments
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by male_salmon 16y ago
Not true. You can opt for family coverage but there are more out-of-pocket costs for the employee. I don't know how this compares with other companies though.
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by male_salmon 16y ago
You can watch instantly using a variety of browsers including Firefox and Chrome on Windows and OS X.
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by male_salmon 16y ago
Not true. I have health benefits (incl. dental and vision), FSA, free lunch, coffee, snacks, soda, etc.
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by male_salmon 16y ago
Not true. I have health benefits from Netflix.
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by male_salmon 16y ago
I work at Netflix and I cannot say that my experience reflects this particular review. I like working here because my coworkers are intelligent and I get to work on exciting projects. The slides we have on the jobs page are fairly accurate.
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by male_salmon 16y ago
Neil Gaiman also took a lot of flack when it was revealed how much he charged for speaking engagements. But when he explained his reasoning, I came to see how his high fee rate was justified. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/05/political
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by male_salmon 16y ago
I have no direct knowledge of how we use that survey, but I suspect that an outlier such as yourself would not affect the results of the survey. If there is a wide-spread drop in quality, I think the survey would pick that up. It's hard to
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by male_salmon 16y ago
Also, we're hiring: http://www.netflix.com/Jobs
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Netflix's business opportunity(slideshare.net)
6 points by male_salmon 16y ago|4 comments
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by male_salmon 16y ago
I like that this resurfaces from time to time. Here're the comments from when I submitted the link to the deck to HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740524
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by male_salmon 17y ago
I think the reason you're hired is because they think you can perform at the same level of said peers. And you accept the job because you think you can. And want to. I'd say the average employee age skews towards 35+. No young whipper-snapp
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by male_salmon 17y ago
I understand what you say about motivation, but I don't think Netflix is about that. My belief is that they expect you to be intrinsically excited about working there - because you are a professional adult. You should already be learning on
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by male_salmon 17y ago
My guess would be a few months but I don't have any hard evidence on hand. Based on my limited experience, I wouldn't put the duration at more than a year.
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by male_salmon 17y ago
Actually this is the opposite of what you're suggesting. Working for Netflix doesn't require that you sacrifice a work/life balance. Implicit is the agreement that you'll perform up to the standard that is expected of you, but from what I'v
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The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix(slideshare.net)
144 points by male_salmon 17y ago|46 comments
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by male_salmon 17y ago
oh really. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/519444730_4eb3859a9a_o.jp... "This machine has Windows 2000 with 256MB ram installed." http://www.hightechdad.com/2008/04/16/bart-ticket-kiosks-run...

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