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Of course they did. As more gains are realized in capital rather than wages, the rich will literally get richer. At the same time, it's becoming ever less clear that many of them serve a useful purpose. Justifying executive pay is losing ground in economic literature and, frankly, has always required recourse to casuistry.
You don't speak for all Netflix customers when you offer your perspective.

I joined Netflix because of streaming and I prefer to look at streaming only. When I joined netflix I got a DVD and didn't return it for a year. I didn't want to return it because I didn't want to get another DVD. In search results I never wanted to see the DVD results. I wanted to see what I could watch now. Content is such a key part of this. If the streaming service had the same or more content than the DVD business, nobody would care. But since they are still building that collection and struggling with content owners, people are freaking out.

Time will tell whether this was a stupid idea for the market at large. As a streaming customer, I'm indifferent. As a tech pundit, I think it was an important strategic move and I applaud Netflix.
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I never liked the choice of the word 'Pirate' for a political party even if I support some of their motives.
Though 'pirates' means freedom (doing whatever you want) it also means killing, robbing and taking hostages (Somalia, Indonesia).
May I kindly ask why you put "German" in there? Do you actually think there are no US (or whatever nation you are from copycat) startups? Is there anything special about German copycat startups? Do you have evidence that in Germany there are more copycat startups than in other countries?
I have to disagree with that. I've met many people, especially in larger enterprises, who started in development but then became more abstract over time. They weren't bad people, in fact, they were excellent at their job.

This neither confirms nor infirms Paul Graham's thesis. In fact, while PG's assertion was a bit too specific--pointy-haired boss means in general "bad manager", not "programmer turned manager"--I don't think you can deny that people want promotions, and in some places the only way to get promoted is to go into management. PG is of course correct in suggesting that if you want to keep programming, don't accept a promotion to a non-programming role. However, if you find this stunts your career growth, you can either look for a job in a company that will allow you to grow as a programmer, or you can choose to go into management. That many programmers are averse to this doesn't make it a bad choice. You just have to know what you're getting into, and hopefully how to do it well.

Programming to me has never been something that has to be continually pursued in order to stay fluent or able, but merely something that reflects your more basic skills and talents.

Depends on what your goal is. It's perfectly possible to build a good career without keeping up with the bleeding edge of research. You don't have to know what monads are to be well compensated (at least in a Western country). However, neither will you be the next Peter Norvig. If you want to make money, there's many ways to do that. If you want to eventually get a Turing Award... there's fewer ways to do that.

And the traits that make you a good programmer help you in other fields, even management. Yes, large corporations have structures, but we need structure to manage them. And we need managers. And a manager who was a distinguished developer will be much better suited for leading a team of developers -- even if he doesn't program any longer. This is a valid career path, and an interesting one at that.

A manager who is a good programmer will be golden at interview time. Whether he will also be a good lead is unclear. Like iand said, they should get out of the way and enable programmers to work optimally. As an aside, the structure of corporations and how it affects programming is an interesting topic worthy of its own discussion thread.
I am tempted to think that maybe the DVD business should have been called Mailflix or Flix by Mail or Next-day Flix.
Spelling mistake in "Android" in the link title.
I haven't quite been able to grasp why Toms Hardware, which I view largely as a consumer/enthusiast review site would choose to analyze the failure rates of SSD's in a datacenter environment. How about going to IT departments that have "floater" laptops and seeing how long the drives hold up in those? I think the primary consumer reasons for purchasing SSD's are increased battery life and physical fault tolerance in laptops not the expectation that they'll outlast a standard HDD in a server setting.
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I think PP shows how badly prepared are current democratic systems to handle a wider diversity of opinions. Politics got less ideological and more pragmatic, and that leads to a wider diversity of opinions, which the current systems aren't prepared to handle. The concept of all encompassing parties doesn't scale; we need a way for people to show their support for very targeted movements like PP without feeling they're wasting their vote away.
Most successful business don't make huge decisions like this if there wasn't a reason. And instead of speculation, we know why this split is happening. Think back with "The Social Network" was pulled from Netflix. The reason was that Netflix and Stars in their contract was limited to a certain number of viewers. In Stars' eyes, Netflix's total userbase was the number of viewers even though Stars was only concerned with streaming. So, to appease both the DVD licensing where they pay the studios per rental (and streaming shouldn't count against that) and to appease streaming licensing where they also pay by the size of the viewership (such as the case of Stars), they had no choice but to not only split the subscription model, but the company itself.

Thinking that Netflix would kill a good thing is pretty dumb and I sort of expected more from the HN audience in this case. Netflix is doing what they have to do, not what they want to do.
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there's said to be 30-40k Vietnamese in Poland, some say even 50k. also there's a huuuuuge Polonia in Brazil.
In case the article's author stops by:

- loose rhymes with "goose". The word is "lose".
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They generally disappeared completely, no longer being readable. Spinners die much more gracefully with an easier disk recovery.

That's a weird thing to say. In a datacenter you want your disks to be fail-fast. I.e. you want them to drop out of the array early and cleanly.

Nobody "recovers" harddrives in a datacenter, you just swap them.

The worst failure-mode (that is still way too commonly seen) is that of the "lame drive" that grows bad sectors, predictive failures and all that jazz over time, causing bus-resets, confused controllers and bringing the whole array to a crawl until a human steps in.

That said, my experience with SSDs in that regard isn't too good either. I've seen them fail cleanly but I've also seen a single failing Vertex lock up a LSI-controller hard...
Another reason is in case you don't want your access ISP reading your outbound mail (in the case where the smtpd doesn't support STARTTLS).
So how does this fit in with the other articles on HN which insist that there are far more openings than people?
Forget operating costs, one major biological research center I knew of hit (IIRC) 20% of their maximum server space before the power company said they'd need to run a new high-voltage line at $$$ and years of delays even if the neighbors didn't kill it. I believe they were able to jump on the lower-power hardware as that market developed but it certainly got a lot of attention in the community.
Probably a reference to the Samwer brothers. Yes, other countries clone US startups, but these guys are especially successful at it. So I would take it as a compliment. Pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs and all that.

http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/09/samwers-bankrolled-faceboo...

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/the-samwer-brothers-make...
This probably counts as an argument for both sides: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37200.html
Nice use of /tmp, I hope you're the only one on your machine.
The first two comments he replied to (when I saw) were very critical.
There's got to be a typology somewhere for this sort of thing. It's a theme in commentary.
I'm not sure how this could omit "ssh -D".

Also, is it just me, or might his ssh-reagent bash function add keys to some other user's ssh agent process if they've sufficiently modified the permissions on their socket file in the temporary directory to allow you to write to it?
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Very true indeed. Personally I could never join one of the many parties as they all have some opinions I just can't agree with. This really makes voting quite hard. In Switzerland we now have http://smartvote.ch/?lang=en_GB were you fill out a questionnaire and then get some politicians matching your profile. While certainly not perfect, it is already a good start.
"Yet another self-promotion article. Oh, we stuff data in memory and then when it is time to write changes on disk everything got frozen! MySQL suck, buy our solution! Nice guys.)"

You got this part all wrong. He explicitly said that 'their solution' is unlikely to do any better. This is a real problem.
To anyone who reads this from the Netflix team:

I love Netflix. And so my following criticism is intended to be constructive. The email and blog post that Reed sent out today starts off well...

"I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation........I’ll try to explain how this happened."

However, after writing the above, Reed doesn't really give an explanation, and based on my colleagues' and other commenters' reactions so far, it seems to have come off as a smug non-apology. Rather than a wordy but empty-ish post, what you should have written about the overall price increases was a simple explanation at how your sourcing costs have increased. You might think that since that information is public, and geeks like us already know about it, but the majority of your customers might not be as news-savvy. And on the DVD side, explain to your customers some of the challenges that you are facing there, how they have become different from the streaming side, and why you needed to separate the businesses. (I personally don't really understand this one - the only reason I can think of for the clean separation is if you wanted the option to sell off one of the businesses later).

I believe people would have been more sympathetic had you given a simple, honest explanation of your challenges, especially after starting your post like that.
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I guess, that only possible b/c not every active facebook user, uses Chat.
Something similar can be done for Australia:

http://data.gov.au/dataset/national-public-toilet-map/
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This reminds me of Apple killing the floppy.

Anyway, this is all about negotiations to get more content in the streaming service. If newer movies and more tv shows appear in the streaming service, no one will care about DVDs by mail.
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Just like the internet advertising bubble in the late 90s.

You might see a temporary contraction in the industry, but the model's not going anywhere.
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That's a point I agree with but it doesn't change the fact that there are a huge number of people on HN who are struggling to find the right kind of work, if any work at all.

After I submitted some of my previous blog posts I was inundated with emails from HNer's asking for CV advice and general advice on how to find work so I decided to address the problem.

Ultimately, if this post so much as helps one person then it will have been worth it.
First law of web site development:

The client's copy never arrives by the agreed deadline.

Second Law:

After the copy deadline, the client says they are a bit busy so could you just put something suitable in.
I think it's important to realize the difference between these businesses. Qwikster won't have to negotiate with the content providers because they can purchase the DVDs and games and rent them without the content companies having a say. Netflix has to negotiate for all their content, and we all know how reasonable the content companies are.

I don't think we'll see a spin-off for at least a year, and probably bit longer.
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It's interesting that they save the big price hike until after they bankrupted Blockbuster. Well played, in an evil-genius sort of way.
Yep, thanks for the tip!
My experience of working in 3 different UK schools:

IT teams in schools are normally small, over-worked, and underpaid (as is the default in education generally). Machines tend to run from a single source image rolled out once or twice a year. The time and resources it takes to create, roll out and support departmentally-customised builds is not worth it. Software is generally dictated by overpaid IT managers who are disconnected from both the teaching staff and the IT team. It's not uncommon for tech teams to have a small percentage of the IT teaching budget rather than their own, so decisions are based on that too.

I'm glad I got out of educational IT.
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Your last paragraph seems to suggest that companies don't make dumb decisions by "killing a good thing". Maybe you think only Netflix doesn't make dumb decisions of this sort but there is a long history of companies making dumb decisions by killing 'a good thing'.

As stated I don't see how Netflix will survive long term.
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If the downvoters needed it spelled out, IP should be a compromise, a middle ground between producers and consumers. These days, it's tilted too far towards producers, in my opinion, but with no IP, it would mean that people could not make money creating digital goods that are easily copied. Or they would, but in ways we might find distasteful. For instance, a movie might show a lot of people quenching their thirst with delicious, satisfying COCA COLA products, much more than they do already. Or perhaps things like writing and movies would be the preserve of the independently wealthy. This would mean fewer books, movies, programs, etc... etc... which would ultimately leave the consumer worse off due to the lack of these goods.

Digital goods that are by their nature not rivalrous and not easily excludable share some of the properties of public goods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#The_free_rider_prob...

Hence the solution of creating artificial property, which has worked 'pretty well' for a while. Being a compromise, it'll never be "perfect", and is something that needs constant tuning, not throwing out in its entirety.
Steam doesn't rent games, which is what I believe qwikster intends to do. It's gamefly they would be competing with. If I were gamefly, I'd be very worried right now.
Just to share my personal experience: My wife and I have been Netflix customers for years. Streaming is pretty convenient for us, but two major problems: 1) lack of content and 2) lack of subtitles / closed captions. Captions are important because we watch movies at night, after the kids are in bed. That means we keep things are quiet enough that you occasionally miss a line of dialog. Because of those two issues we're back to DVDs in the mail. Here's my point:

While the services were integrated we could play with the online service (wait for it to improve) while still getting DVDs through the mail. It didn't cost any extra to try a streaming movie or two. Now that they are separate, checking up on the online service has a much higher cost, both monetarily and in terms of effort. Personally I'm disappointed, I liked streaming a lot, but for us it just wasn't quite there yet.

As others have said, the two services are complementary. I might like to know that I could watch a movie instantly instead of waiting for it in the mail, even if that's what I'd planned to do. Or that I could get a DVD in the mail because it isn't available for streaming.

As a customer I feel Netflix cares more about promoting streaming than keeping me as a customer. Rather than holding the door open so I can take my time converting to online content, I'm being pushed. Maybe right into a the arms of a competitor, because I'm not feeling the love from Netflix.
I think you misread my post. I was saying that quite a lot of new releases are not available on Netflix's streaming service.
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Disappointed. Was hoping that this was how to find a 'job for hackers', not 'how to find a job' for hackers.
Some bits buried in here: http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/02/sizing-vms-and-numa-nodes/
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Upvoted for truth. In 5 years of professional web development I don't think I've ever had a client meet a copy deadline.
Third Law: After putting the copy in, the client changes their mind and sends you a Word doc without using outline mode so you can't see the changes and have to copy everything back into the site again from the start.
This is exactly dictating the resulting state. Consider the FSM:

States = (active, cancelled);
Transitions = [("cancel", active -> cancelled)]

If the API says PUT status = cancelled, then we'd look through the transitions and find the one that matches our current state and the target state ("cancel"), then execute the associated code, the side effects of this transition - probably sending an email.

We now want to refactor the cancellation model to this:

States = (active, cancellation requested, cancelled)
Transitions = [("cancel", active -> cancellation requested),
("confirm", cancellation requested -> cancelled)]

You can see where I'm going with this already, the transition we want the user to take from the active state is the same, but the additional state means that we either have to change the API for cancellation, or have the PUT status do something other than specify the state we're moving to.

This is the reason I firmly believe changes of state should be requested by naming the transition, and why I'm not entirely sold on the "best" way to do this with a "proper" RESTful architecture.
Picking blindly isn't really a good choice.

But well, enjoy your new toy an_yamnat!
Not all job markets are the same. Your skills may be less in demand where you live, and more in demand elsewhere.

Likewise, companies may be trying to hire people with skills that are rare in their area.
Technically it's both.

The advice I give in regards to where to look and how to go about improving your chances is exactly that. People who post vacancies on HN & GitHub are looking for hackers, not code-monkeys.
I agree - you can't just look at brand, as there are often a lot of issues that are specific to individual models. Having said that, my experience selling OCZ drives (100s of drives) is that they all have a high failure rate :( The only drives I haven't had experience with are the Enterprise level drives, so I can't comment on them.

I think the reason for this is that OCZ largely uses Indilinx and Sandforce controllers, and while very quick, they have had more than their fair share of issues.
What's to stop you from switching to Amazon? Have you tried watching a movie on Amazon? Way less usable and its hard to find movies sometimes. Netflix has a way better interface and what I find myself doing is checking on Netflix first, and then only if they don't have it, do I go to Amazon.
Here's a definition of "important" - as important as you had thought it might be when you selected the course. I'm guessing philosophy haters are like militant atheists - they don't really think it's an objectively terrible thing, they are just a bit bitter and disappointed.
I noted this elsewhere, but I believe it has to do with Netlfix relationships and negotiations with the content creators, and how it differs from the Qwikster model of buying discs. Qwikster requires zero relationships and negotiations with the content creators.

I can't really understand why people get so upset about these changes because I can't find the catalog size/ low cost anywhere else. If anyone knows of a better service/value, I would be interested.
Saves as .txt and a text diff utility can be a real life-saver. It's not perfect, but with a reasonably-skilled user it should be a lot faster than redoing everything from scratch.
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And thus a new class of hipster was born.

Don't get mad that your favorite author produced a work that is 'more accessible' or that it isn't what you wanted. Blindly buying because of brand name has always been a bad idea.
The difference is, that German copycats usually can roll up the German market by them self, while their US idol is still busy expanding in the US.
Well humans are not evenly distributed on earth and the area where the satellite will hit is within some known boundaries.
Because even if you have rock solid RAID and backup solutions (and unfortunately, many, many companies don't), there is a cost involved in replacing drives. Especially when you are talking about an end user. Yes, most servers have RAID and you can do a swap out with no down time, and at minimal cost. But if you have an SSD failing in a users laptop / desktop, the down time and frustration involved can be major.
Seems to me that you get paid either way. It's the client that loses if they don't provide the content they promised.
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>People might prematurely judge you based on the incomplete snapshot of your activities. //

They do that now.
I get your point (and I don't think that the vast majority of iOS users care one jot about pretty much anything that the article is talking abount), but there are ways of making things "programmer-friendly" without sacrificing usability.

Take MacOS and AppleScript. I doubt more than a tiny fraction of MacOS users even know that AppleScript exists. Its existence certainly doesn't get in the way of usability. But it's there for people who want to use it, and they can use it to chain GUI apps together, or to automate regular tasks.
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