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You can subscribe to our blog's mailing list, we're going to start cross posting our tech posts and announcements through there as well. https://blog.curiositystream.com/

Feel free to tour and preview our library https://app.curiositystream.com/

Native chromecast support is something we have in the works, we agree that mirroring doesn't truly cut it. And we're currently in the process of brainstorming how we can build out more of a community to add more of a dialog to our pieces. Thanks for the feedback!

Well we have tons of big budget and high quality pieces from producers like BBC, NHK, and stuff that's been on PBS. Feel free to check out and preview our library https://app.curiositystream.com/

Definitely, the vast majority of our content is either exclusive, or only offered behind paywalls(most of which are more expensive than us).

You can check out our library here https://app.curiositystream.com/

We actually just pushed it out there recently, we just got our shield for testing and would love your feedback https://goo.gl/093zUZ

We've had a ton of feedback on that and are working on changing that as soon as possible.

We're currently working on it now. We use HLS for adaptive bitrate streaming which has practically no native browser support. Just recently some libraries started popping up which are able to utilize the new media source extensions to play HLS using HTML5, and we are currently testing it and trying to get it out as soon as possible. We absolutely hate flash.

Anytime!

Thats amazing to hear!

We have been playing around with our encoding profiles to try to find a good balance, so some videos might have higher caps than others. Unfortunately a large amount of our users are still in areas with horrible connections, so we have focused mostly on reducing buffering and start times. But now that we've been able to tackle that and improve our CDN's our content quality and UHD video are next on our list.

Also if you haven't checked it out we wrote a whole post on how we tackled streaming from a tech perspective.

https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...

We've looked into it, but it works a lot better with live streams then on demand since the amount of people watching the same piece at the same time are pretty low. But we did just start experimenting with a product from Hola that does some pretty cool stuff with adaptive streaming. http://holacdn.com/

We actually have a wine piece we're going to be adding in the near future that we made in house that looks amazing. But if you haven't already checked it out we have a good bit on food to start.

https://app.curiositystream.com/search/Food/1?title=Society

We're working on ways to try to tailor and customize the browse page a bit more. If you're a member once you start watching some videos a recommended for you slide will be added to the home page based on your history. And thanks for the feedback on the popover. Just curious what information is most important to you as a user when picking a video? Just the description?

Well although we are currently english only, we like to think of ourselves as an international service. We have tons of content focusing on other cultures and countries. Feel free to preview some of our content and let me know if anything strikes your interest.

https://app.curiositystream.com/browse/category/society/1?ti...

Well we definitely like to think we're a good deal, any ideas of how we might have been able to communicate our value better? And we just started a series on how to roll your own streaming service(https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...) and our marketing/ad strategy might be a future post.

That's actually an AB test we have in the pipeline, hoping it seems more straightforward.

We're currently working on new landing page variations. We were definitely planning on polishing it up but 1 and 2 are definitely great tips. Thanks!

We're putting the finishing touches on Apple TV as we speak. And our Fire TV app is live! https://help.curiositystream.com/hc/en-us/articles/214497157...

Well From our launch last year to 6 months ago it was just 2 of us. Now we've grown to 7 developers. We just started writing a series on how we did it. https://medium.com/p/4e8d9f7308cd

Hey everyone, I'm one of the developers at CuriosityStream. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have about streaming technology or the industry.

Hey everyone, I'm the author of the article and one of the developers at CuriosityStream. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have about streaming technology or the industry.

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I don't thing I completely agree with the "role-model" effect you are describing. There are women like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

And many more. If these women aren't role models enough, how is me investing multitudes more of effort and hiring one or two female engineers at a small startup going to create role-models.

I believe in investing in the egg as you call it, by getting women interested in tech at a young age, we can have more candidates to choose from and then not have to jump through all the efforts and hoops this website want's me to do. I see no practical reason to reword all my job postings and hire a female-centric recruiter when I can just hop on angellist for an hour.

The biggest thing that I feel like these initiatives always miss is that the onus on fixing the problem of gender equality in tech shouldn't be on the companies at this point in the game (not to say that won't change), but on getting more women interested in tech in the first place. Overwhelmingly women don't seem to care about the technology field. We need to focus less on bending over backwards to find appropriate female candidates from such a small pool, and focus more on what organizations like Girls who Code[0] who are trying to get more young women interested in technology. Once there is actually a sizable amount of women involved in the field, then maybe the conversation over discrimination or lack of diversity may be worth having. But until then I cant just make female engineers poof into the interview room like magic and thats not for lack of trying.

[0] http://girlswhocode.com/

VideoBlocks - Reston Virginia Full-Time Backend Web Developer

We are looking for multiple backend web developers to help us launch exciting new projects. Our stack is PHP but we love language agnostic Devs who are willing to learn. We prefer NOVA/DC local, but we have remote employees and are open to remote for the right candidate.

Our Dev Wishlist (Not all needed, but the more the better) 2+ years web app dev experience Experience with MVC principals Experience with PHP Experience with Sphynx Experience with Redis Experience with selenium Expwrience with Git Hacker attitude Love of learning

We offer, Competitive salaries Insurance Take when you need it unlimited time off Ping Pong games

If you are interested, email me at matt@videoblocks.com

Video Blocks is a profitable, venture backed technology company, recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as being the fourth fastest growing media company in the United States.

VideoBlocks.com offers a subscription-based service that provides members with unlimited downloads of stock video, motion backgrounds, production music, sound effects, special effects, After Effects templates and more.

In 2013, Video Blocks was ranked the 32nd fastest growing technology company in the US/Canada, and the 2nd fastest growing technology company in the DC region by Deloitte for the Fast500, for achieving 7,000% revenue growth over the past 5 years.

So for an actual web developer this is pretty much useless? It kind of sounds like Dreamweaver 2.0.

Can anyone who has used this explain to me if it is worth $180? I own both textmate($50 iirc) and sublime(around $70 iirc) so spending that much seems a bit much. I know it has some nice visual features, but is it $120 worth?

I did, and I'm not sure what you are trying to say exactly, but the point I was making which others have pointed out as well is that Tesla issued changes not for an issue with their car, but to improve it and make it better. Other car manufacturers waited until there were either deaths, lawsuits, or media outcry to recall cars. They were all reactive purely based on cost-benefit. Tesla decided here that their already incredibly safe cars that have fared better than most, if not all others; could be made even better. What Tesla did is leagues above what any other manufacturer has done in recent memory.