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by nattaylor 12y ago
Is it just a testament to how much Americans love TV that we let Comcast get to the seemingly "too big to fail" state that it's in? Practices that Benn describes, like unreturned equipment fees and dubious installation fees,
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by nattaylor 12y ago
Maybe give PredictionIO a shot? There is a vagrant image that makes it relatively easy to give it a try. It wouldn't help with injecting the recs into search results.
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by nattaylor 12y ago
The optimization improvements sound impressive and it seems like they could present a big opportunity to make HTML5 video considerably better and more unified.
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by nattaylor 12y ago
From their Twitter: https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/562760983790485504 We're aware some members are experiencing technical difficulties on the web site in all regions. We hope to resolve this asap.
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by nattaylor 12y ago
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity) https://support.netflix.com/en/rest/views/popularbytopcat.js...
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by nattaylor 12y ago
Ha, I had to look up 418. 418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324) This code was defined in 1998 as one of the traditional IETF April Fools' jokes, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and is not expected to be implemented by a
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by nattaylor 12y ago
I was curious about this too; I didn't see anything from the author on the reddit thread. The client is in AgularJS and uses bootstrap. The headers don't tell us much, but suggest PHP behind nginx... maybe Laravel? Connectio
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by nattaylor 12y ago
I found a comment [1] from the author on a reddit thread [2]. So yes, it seems like the data is already stale and getting staler :( [–]WedgeTalon 7 points 5 months ago Interesting, but won't this be a pretty short-lived site si
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by nattaylor 12y ago
True, unless they can do something innovative, then even $0.005/session is optimistic.
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by nattaylor 12y ago
From their site[0]: "Flurry sees 165B app sessions across 1.4B devices each month" so... even if Yahoo could turn each session into $0.05 of revenue, they could make it a $100b/yr business. 0: http://www.flurry.com
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by nattaylor 12y ago
I've always figured it was a diagnostic... so that it can determine your eligibility for video during the rest of the session or something.
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by nattaylor 12y ago
This reminds me of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale(dougseven.com)
101 points by nattaylor 12y ago|60 comments
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by nattaylor 13y ago
My threshold for considering automation is doing it once :) but if the work to automate is non-trivial, then I usually don't get around to it until the 3rd cycle. I usually evaluate a few things, in this order: 1. How much time will it
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by nattaylor 13y ago
I didn't RTFA, but if you instead assume it just goes to adults (~221M) then that's $2.2T. I think BI gets rid of SS/Medicare/Medicaid/etc, which gets you back roughly $2T.
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by nattaylor 13y ago
Agreed. For me the most important this is load time -- if it takes more than a few seconds, I move on well before even the best of current responsive solutions have a chance to load and do their magic. This doesn't address that entir
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by nattaylor 13y ago
Page down is working for me...
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by nattaylor 13y ago
This is definitely true. My initial intent was to oversimplify the problem and explain to friends, not the HackerNews audience.
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by nattaylor 13y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think I'd have enough documentation (eg not even the initial email for enrolment in Ecobill, nor a screenshot of the dashboard.) I agree though, I feel like it's shady at best and probably worse, thoug
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I Fought Comcast and Almost Won(nattaylor.com)
52 points by nattaylor 13y ago|21 comments
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by nattaylor 13y ago
I feel like people just aren't used to it ("What is this green lock in my address bar? This is just XYZNewsNet, if they need security, they must be doing something wrong", so large sites aren't inclined to make the switc