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The update I heard was (essentially) 'Another update from Amazon: Looks like it was a power issue for one facility that services a particular AZ in us-east-1, flipped to generator, now back on power and in recovery mode.'

'tis what I heard on an outage call...

power outage in one of their AZ's. Only after lots of machines died did the generator kick on. Lovely.

And this can solved, for the purposes of a rank beginner, with a $80 setup by a competent guitar tech.

Exactly.

I work on the cinematch team at netflix. The several hundred blended algorithms that was output of the grand prize winning team is very... impractical... for netflix' needs. We cherry picked (and then modified) the best of the bunch.

It's about damm time. This would've been nice a week ago when I deleted 140K items from a bucket that were moved elsewhere. The deletes took _14 hours_.

and ironically, my employer has hired at least one dim bulb from Google.

Please note that it was Starz who had a contract with sony that had subscriber count as a term in the contract, not netflix.

He pulled that information out of thin air. It is not true.

As evidenced by?

Meg has a net worth north of $1B...

I once got a chance to talk to Meg when I worked at eBay. After the, very brief, interaction I dubbed her "Queen Margaret" as the look on her face suggested that rabble like me shouldn't be seen, at least by the aristocracy.

Also, across the street from the eBay HQ in Campbell there was a restaurant that had failed and Hooters wanted to open a location in it's place. Meg fought Hooters for nearly two years.

Good luck HP, you're going to need it.

correlation != causation.

the 28-day window was solely a way to lower the cost of buying dvd's. Those savings went into buying more streaming licenses.

And the the grandparent - the dvd company isn't _required_ to work with the content creators, but it would probably be dumb for them not to.

I am a netflix employee.

I hold my employer to certain standards and I do not defend anything they do automatically - for instance, I thought the way the plan split/price hike was communicated was just awful. So I'm not trolling.

When I first heard this plan many months ago, my immediate reaction was to look for another job. I have, perhaps obviously, decided to stay. One of the biggest reasons I've decided to stay is that I believe Reed is one of the most honest, hungry, and intelligent CEO's around.

These changes will cause short term pain, but I honestly believe the products will be much better after the split.

I believe speed was one of the things Netflix wanted to communicate with the otherwise unfortunate name "Qwikster".

> That was the reason behind the original split in the services

No. Not at all.

The plans were split in preparation for the company split. This has been in planning for a long time.

I honestly don't care how Apple runs it's business. I don't work for apple, I do, on the other hand, work for netflix, and not having to worry about DVDs will be a nice relief.

I feel pretty comfortable saying that will NEVER EVER happen, at least as long as Reed is still the CEO.

I'm quite certain that my views on yahoo are biased.

Nearly no one I've interviewed from yahoo has bad-mouthed their former employer, so my negative bias is from working with people that have passed the technical interview and have been hired... the quirks that people pick up after working at yahoo for many years are odd to me (like the strange desire to put squid in front of everything).

I question yahoo's engineering chops 4 out of 5 times after interviewing hotshots from search, ads, or research.

After interviewing dozens of folks from yahoo, I've pained the following picture about the engineering there - the vast majority of it is stuck in 1995, some bits of it have evolved isolated from the rest of the tech world - it's steam punk, then there are a few parts that are shiny and new but skin deep. It seems like a sad place.

No. Netflix uses AWS for nearly everything (including transcoding videos) other than streaming bits and a subset of other processes (PCI type stuff).

I know you are wrong.

We've hired lots of folks from yahoo to work on infrastructure and one guy from reddit to be a cloud SRE. but we've yet to hire a security guy from sony.

Netflix does that - http://i.imgur.com/OHu8n.jpg

There are several reasons Netflix isn't more transparent: 1) Contract windows are of deep interest to competitors. 2) Contracts are frequently re-negotiated before they end.

I'm pretty sure nostrademons works for google...

only the ipad app is like that now. The iphone version has been "native" for quite a while now.

I work on the cinematch team at netflix... I've reviewed all of the winning code... your characterization is incorrect.

The netflix prize would not have been won when it was without rbm.

how many times are you going to post this??

(x = "x") vs ("x" = x)

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214031/is-constant-compar...

It wants a camera so it can scan and ocr documents.