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This of course brings it's own set of problems...
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In theory, however, Qwikster doesn't have to limit itself to DVD's in the future. If it's real focus is shipping speed for items that are rented (or more likely purchased), it could expand into other product lines. Speed of shipping is a process in and of itself, something that very few companies, like Amazon, have gotten down.
The only reason why I can think of why they would cut themselves into 2 companies, is so that the content providers can't use the DVD business' cash flow to pay for the content.

My thoughts exactly, I assumed the original separation was done so hollywood couldn't bargain over dvd profits, perhaps this move was done to make that wall even stronger. I fear for the future of netflix, it's an easy choice to have a subscription now, but what happens when the major studios get involved and start demanding serious money for their content.
I kept my account even after planning on dropping it when the price increase happened, but now I don't really see any reason to keep my streaming account. At least when they were integrated, searching in one place, and having all my reviews in one place provided some additional benefit for me.

Now I don't really see any benefit at all for keeping the streaming portion over Amazon Prime (which I have) and maybe adding Hulu Plus. I'll have to see if having the game option makes it useful for me to keep the DVD portion of my account.

As soon as the sites split, NetFlix looses a great deal of value to me as a customer. Before it was a single place where I could pick movies to see - whether streaming or on DVD, now it becomes a repository of a bunch of okay television shows and (esp. once they lose Starz Play), a mediocre movie selection.
Netflix should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. There are a lot of successful companies that are much more diversified than Netflix is right now. This honestly strikes me as a panic driven move in response to the customer rage and their precipitous drop off in stock prices.

I'm trying hard but can't see the upside to this move. And I think this will cause a big hemmorhaging in profit for the short/medium term. Netflix has 12 million members that are on both the DVD and the streaming plan. These are the folks that got the 60% price hike. Although Netflix lost some customers (~5%) after the pricing change, that massive price hike put them in a position to increase profits, even with less members..

But now that Netflix is splitting itself in two, I can guarantee you a sizeable chunk of people who were just happy with the dual plan will end up picking one or the other.

That being said, I like that they're tackling video games. They ought to take a serious look at getting into competition with Steam, which is making $1Billion in revenue and growing, with high profit margins.
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Exactly, it depends on the semantics. For example, if I'm exposing a salon's schedule as a resource, perhaps when a booking is cancelled it is thrown away (or otherwise made inaccessible). But in your case, you would still want make the cancelled booking available to REST clients, so PUT would be more suitable for you.
okay, tax male babies and subsidize female ones. not joking.
Amazon built the company around having a million services and products. Netflix built the company around having one service, and then around having two services.
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It may be limited if you only watch movies, but If you like, say...British detective shows, there's enough episodes to keep you busy for a while.
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I'm surprised they din't register the domain quickster.com as well. The QW in qwickster is cute, but it's easy to misspell.
What I think, for what you may think it's worth, is that you should climb the highest hills, that you'll have to climb, right away. Best to know you can do it before wasting time.

But, that you should look for the easiest way to success. It'll take months for a large company to have the meetings to acknowledge your niche, let alone try to serve it. The only thing you have to fear is another startup and you're at the advantage is that situation.

Building huge walls or picking a niche with a large cost to serve, is like wasting time on DRM for your game, instead of working on marketing and having someone actually buy it.
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The cute thing with this argument is the idea that your hardships are similar to the bottom 5% somehow. If you're not happy with your income, what should the people making less than you be?
> 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.
Our strategy at Quizlet.com has been similar... make something that teachers and students both directly want to use, and they naturally spread it to each other.
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Not true. Why would you think it would be?
Short version: We buy more than we sell. Wealth is being transferred out.

Long version:
It means we import way more than we export... In other words, we buy from others a lot more than we sell to others. In theory, this would create a strong downward pressure on US dollar, but as it is the reserve currency of the world and is backed by giant consumer economy that everyone is selling into, as well as US military might, the pressure is negated.

Some economists argue that this is extremely unhealthy and is unsustainable. I'm not qualified to say if it's true or not. One thing I would say, is look at most countries with a huge positive balance - most are oil producers or cheap(er) labor sources for less skilled stuff. Notable exceptions here is Germany. In fact, Germany is very luck that the rest of Euro zone likes to spend profusely. If not for those other countries dragging the Euro down, their currency would have appreciated exponentially, making their exports way too expensive.
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This course is CS 161 at Stanford: Intro to Algorithms. It's got a lot of short videos, so you can pick which ones you wanna watch. Also, I took the class, the prof is really good.
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> Have you considered some of the hacks that we have to use to make HTTP do what we want?

Right, but this sounds like blaming a nail for permanently attaching something when velcro would have been more suitable. Granted, we haven't had many other options, but to me the surprising thing is that HTTP is flexible enough that all of these hacks can be done.

> I am, however, interested in why so many people think REST is a magic bullet.

Human nature? ;)
Or two methods of delivery for the same service.
I believe speed was one of the things Netflix wanted to communicate with the otherwise unfortunate name "Qwikster".
Or Dr. Who, or all seven seasons of Star Trek Voyager.
Yeah, the patent office fails to find prior art all the time. But the OP wasn't saying any different. He was only pointing out that the first to file change doesn't affect prior art.
I think it's important to distinguish Philsophy from Critical thinking here.

The practical skill Philsophy teaches is critical thinking and logical reasoning. But you don't need philosophy to learn either of those.

"general skill at persuasion" sounds more like sophistry/rhetoric...
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The civil version (at least tolerably so) would be the first 17 words. The remaining 10 could be affixed to any criticism of any essay by anyone.
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That is what the CEO's hope was by bringing me in. However, the company's existing devs(all remote; mostly offshore) have been with them for couple years and are weary of reporting to anyone other than the CEO.

Bottom line: I feel I can get more output done by just working alone than trying to delegate the same programming task among the devs. This won't scale obviously. But the company is pre-rev and not at a point where it needs scaling(the CEO probably disagrees with me on this).
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You could still apply for a patent yourself, if you are the inventor and it's been less than a year since the prior art became public knowledge.
>>I cannot believe we're the only family like this

You certainly aren't..They actually have a tab called "Just for kids"
My guess is that the logical split has to do with future contract negotiations. Netflix has no ties to DVD rentals, so maybe this aids them in the deals they are able to make.
Clearly this will be disheartening to the true user such as myself. By splitting functionality as to prevent easy access to either material nor allowing usage of existing ratings they're continuing the trend toward customer alienation.

I say this almost all the time, but even if Netfix renegotiates for retaining Starz it is still not yet an adequate amount of viewing content for me to wholely dismiss DVD by mail, regardless of where I even stand on the matter in terms of philosophy.

In the end I still gain a larger bill, continued limited streaming content, and a split in usability.

And what of netflix when Hollywood continues to charge into extinction taking Netflix with them?
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People always go up in arms about change of price like this. For a long time, the prices at Netflix mostly stayed the same because they started with DVDs, and later added streaming. The streaming catalog wasn't built out enough for them to monetize it with confidence. So what did they do? They gave us a break and let us have free streaming. Now that it's a significant catalog, they want us to pay for the service... which they have to license! And it aint cheap for them to do that.

Now that it's doubled, people feel it's outrageous! But it's not because of the value they're receiving, it's because they're conditioned to expect one price and it's now higher. They lost a million subscribers, but Netflix will get those back after people realize they were being idiots.

Let me ask you a question, would you rather pay $15 a month for unlimited streaming and DVDs, or $50 to Comcast for basic cable? In my book, $15 is a pretty damn reasonable price.
For the sake of debate:

> REST is not suited to complex multi-variable queries or transactions

Would it not be possible to represent a query or transaction as a resource, that you could GET/PUT like any other?

> REST should be a stateless transaction

I think there's a small grey area here around "stateless transaction". The HTTP request/response itself should be atomic (to be a bit loose with terminology), but the result can change the state of the system.

So the communication between client and server is the part of the system that is stateless. (Apologies if this was your intended meaning.)
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Why?

Current Netflix DVD+streaming customers will seamlessly have Netflix+Qwikster accounts. Those who care about just DVDs or just streaming would probably have already left or already transitioned to the appropriate Netflix account option which would leave them with a Netflix or Qwikster account in the end, no action on their part.

So how would this move motivate anyone who hasn't already left to look at other services? I've seen other people on HN complain about needing to maintain two accounts, but switching to Hulu+Redbox has that same downside, removing that as a motivating factor to look at those options. Switching to just one has the downside of losing recommendations and setting up a new account. I don't see why anyone who hasn't already left Netflix after the pricing changes would leave because of this decision.
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So to put it another way the study says that 61% of children born to parents in the top 20% fall out of it, and 58% of children born into poverty rise out of it. Sounds like pretty good numbers to me.
The real question to ask is: Is this good for customers?
It doesn't matter if the goals of the two businesses are different. What matters is how it affects customers. Do customers consider the services as separate entities or as two parts of the same whole?
I think they'll lose a few customers who like both services, but feel awkward about dealing with two companies now instead of one (like me).
This isn't the only prep that you'd need, but this is a good one to get your mind in the right place.

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Netflix has 8 years worth of ratings I've made, so it's gotten very good at suggesting me new movies.

Amazon is the only other company that has a longer history of what I buy and what I like, and they're making some decent inroads into streaming movies now too. As soon as Amazon beefs up their selection and gets streaming videos available on my Xbox 360, I'm going to find it hard to justify Netflix altogether.
Yup. My kid is only two, but even I have noticed that Netflix has 6 full seasons of Spongebob and nearly 100 full episodes of Seasame Street. It's pretty important to me that my child not be bombarded by advertisements before he gains any critical thinking skills, so I'll be a Netflix customer for a long time yet, I'm sure. I'm just hoping they use this extra cash to get some better content (or create it themselves) for me.
The short summary is that nobody had used SSDs in any large scale for more than 2 years and the rates of failure for SSDs in that period of time is similar to regular hard drives.

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Netflix steaming is the new Blockbuster. I disliked Blockbuster because their stores had many copies of currently popular movies and not much else. I liked Netflix because it had an enormous catalog that let me work on seeing all of the great films that had been made in the last 100 years that I'd missed. Netflix streaming is like Blockbuster. At any given time it lets me access only a fraction of its catalog and that fraction is biased toward what is popular. Netflix steaming is the new Blockbuster. :-(
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I think the question is still on whether touch screens are a good idea for laptop screens. Even when used on the lap, with the screen almost horizontal, I have my doubts; I think the screen may be too far away from the body to prevent gorilla arm syndrome. With the laptop on a table, that risk increases.

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I'm finding it hard to believe that the difference is about zero. I think it depends _a lot_ on the usage pattern, and while your statement might be true for the majority of users, some people _are_ experiencing reliability issues with SSDs: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...

This is only reasonable to expect when one technology has a write cycle limit and the other does not. A hard drive will give better reliability in write intensive applications, while an SSD will beat a hard drive in mobile/portable applications.

Of course, for most people buying an SSD, the increased performance easily outweighs any reliability "cost".
Wow, so due to cost structure imposed by the media conglomerates, Netflix has to completely divorce the two offerings into two separate companies. Amazing.

I'm wondering if billing and or queues will exist across both?
I'd love it if Netflix streamed popular movies.
A poorly thought out point: a defensive move against the whole company folding due to some reason?
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That Netflix needs to keep making these changes is simply a symptom of a brutal endemic problem:

In general, subscription business suck.

Most subscription businesses suck because they are dependent on CAC (customer acquisition costs; the cost required to land a new sub) and churn (the percentage of subs that leave the service).

For example, a typical gross CAC for a business like netflix is $200. At $10/mo the subscriber has to stay a sub for almost 2 years before any profit is made. Meanwhile the company had to spend the $200 up front, burning through capital. Also, meanwhile, 15-20% of the customers leave every month. Those customers will never pay off the costs the company spent to aquire them. It's an never-ending spiral of death. As seen by Vonage, Netflix, etc...

But Netflix has another endemic problem: They are the bitch of the content providers. Netflix owns NOTHING (especially in their streaming only biz). All it takes is one content provider to balk (Starz) and the only way they'll get new subs is to spend more on marketing which raises CAC. Which accelerates death.

Name a few successful subscription businesses. Successful (in my mind) means PROFITABLE. Revenue does not mean sh. Come-on, name 'em. (Those that you do name will have some sort of monopoly or exclusive right to a physical asset).

This is why, as an investor, I will never invest in companies that think they can be successful with a subscription business model.

This is also why Apple is kicking ass. Apple gets paid up front. The only way to go.
They're a generic store. Netflix doesn't want to be the equipment of an online department store. They're a boutique shop that has gradually realized they have two competing interests under the same house, and would rather have two shops side by side than one.
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Eh. I'll just use Redbox for that. Faster anyway.
It seems I'm in the minority who thinks this is an over the top reaction to Wall Street pressure. It was clear for a number of years now that Netflix saw streaming as the future. But cutting off the DVD business like that... it's extreme. A lot of the movies are not available for streaming. Yes, their streaming portfolio is probably still the best (and has excellent children's content, my son watches it every night) but why force your users to decide?

The problems, as I see them:

1. The two parts (DVD & streaming) had different characteristics (bigger collection vs. instant gratification) that balanced each other. This synergy is now gone.

2. The attack surface for other companies has just doubled. Netflix's DVD handling is super streamlined (they have special sorters in postal centers) but there are other strong players like Redbox here. The streaming biz is nothing unique, Amazon can easily get to that level of collection in a short time. Divide and conquer? They just did it to themselves!

3. As others have pointed out, the reviews, and user histories will be split. From a subscriber perspective this is most undesirable, now I have to deal with two sites.

4. The quality of recommendations will suffer with less data (they weren't great to start with) after the split.

5. How will this affect developers using the Netflix API?

6. What will happen to Netflix's original content creation efforts, this will be a huge distraction to those. And they are vital.

Overall, this has a heavy handedness to it that makes you wish for the comfort of the likes of Amazon.

EDIT: This also makes my suspicions that Amazon is gearing up to a massive upgrade of their offering soon. Netflix probably tried to focus on streaming and stay ahead in the game. How? I don't know.
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Is it unreasonable to think that if someone has put in ten thousand hours into a general field such as programming (across various languages, as opposed to just focus on one language) that there are enough general principles to extrapolate for them to be considered an expert programmer? Is your argument against Gladwell's idea (not really even his idea) that the professions he site has too many sub-components that under such a definition no one could achieve ten thousand hours of mastery? Perhaps I'm not understanding your argument.

Regardless, it's interesting that you bring up the example of the neurosurgeon because Gladwell's specifically written about the mastery of expert surgeons including the example of Charlie Wilson, a highly regarded neurosurgeon. Included in his telling of the 2987 transsphenoidal resections of pituitary tumors that Wilson performed, Galdwell highlights the seemingly thousands of hours Wilson practiced surgical procedures on rats early in his career. You can read the article here: http://gladwell.com/1999/1999_08_02_a_genius.htm