foobarbazoo

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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Amazon Prime streaming is more than enough for children, and most families already have it. And the kids don't care at all who they get the shows from. I expect Amazon to continue to aggressively compete in this area, not to mention Apple a
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
From the customer's perspective, they are not two separate businesses. They are one, strong business (well, were). Streaming is most valuable when DVD is (a) there as a backup, and (b) managed with the same system. Netflix has seriously dec
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
^^ This is why Netflix is fubar'd. Totally internally looking -- not giving a shit what it means for their customers. Yeah, we all love paying two bills each month, having to search for content two places, having our ratings queues forked
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
No, we'll be dropping our Kwikster accounts immediately and looking for an alternate streaming provider ( cough Amazon cough ). Honestly, it feels like this board is being trolled by Netflix employees or paid PR, who see "no" problem wi
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Do you work for Netflix? On what planet does any of this make sense for customers. Hastings is the very definition of stupid: hurting himself, his company, and his customers -- all at the same time, and totally oblivious to it all. His me
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
I did trust the company. That's gone now. All that time we've spent rating stuff? Spun off to this POS Kwikster company, and no longer integrated. It's rare that companies this size make such stupid moves; this is one of those times.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
He's not "owing up", that's pure PR. This was hatched back in May, and it was stupid then, stupid now, and will be stupid 5 years from now when what's left of Qwikster is sold off in a fire sale and Netflix shareholders start wishing they h
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Qwikster is a joke and will be dead or acquired in 5 years. And Netflix streaming is not ready to carry Netflix forward. We won't be subscribing to Qwikster, and we're already looking for alternatives on the streaming side -- most likely, A
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Qwikster is a terrible name, and this is a terrible move. Hastings is now in competition with that guy running HP to see who can destroy their company first. Maybe Ballmer will get in the game and spin off Windows/Office from Microsoft, and
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If you want content free from Hollywood, give YouTube a try.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
^^ this. Fixed bid contracts are the ONLY way off of the hourly merry-go-round if you're a contractor/consultant. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Wait, the Fed is formed to finance WW1, goes on a massive inflationary binge through the 20s and causes the Great Depression, and the takeaway is that the gold is the problem? Genius.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
The author is a colorist.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
SproutCore has an entire statechart framework built into it. Not sure where the OP is getting his data...
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
^^ This. Plus, the employee is coming on AFTER a substantial fund raising round, and should not expect the same terms since the company is already validated (and capitalized); thus, the "investment" risk is reduced. I also agree with the ot
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Wow, a JavaScript MVC application book with no SproutCore coverage whatsoever. If anyone needed proof that SproutCore has failed to launch, this is it.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Lame. The language is almost trivial; what matters are the frameworks that go with it. Those were created at NeXT, and Steve Jobs was a big reason that happened. Those frameworks (with all the updates that have been made over the years) a
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
If only Lincoln had been Thomas Jefferson! We'd be doing so much better as a country right now. :(
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Great post! Even the top-level commenter doesn't seem to grasp that early, rapid prototyping only works when someone is around to say "no." Since his return, that's been Steve Jobs -- full stop. Who can replace that? AFAICT, no one at Apple
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
I would disagree with your characterization of Steve Jobs and James Cameron as horrible bosses to work for, but I certainly see why you say it. Many, many people I'm certain have asked themselves "why, oh why can't Steve (or Jim) be nicer"
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
"Meetings are toxic." One of the strangest things about working at Apple is they have meeting ALL THE FUCKING TIME. You spend more time in meetings than doing anything else. And now they're the highest valued company in the world, and 37sig
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Would be sweet to run SmartOS on Backblaze's storage hardware.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
The experimental record disagrees with Frank Herbert: power corrupts. It was worth doing the experiments though, so good on him.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
"Keep logs of any and all materials read, communications, etc." Seriously? Who the fuck has time...
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
@zedshaw Would you be up for a Factor version done with the same spirit and quality?
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Not to mention that SproutCore itself is a bunch of micro-frameworks all packaged together. sigh What jtaby's saying, in a nutshell, is: other developers should just stop working on their own (micro-)framework(s), and instead...work on St
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
100% Agree. I have 5 different GitHub accounts to cover all of my repositories, and I'm constantly having to shuffle active projects in and out of GitHub. I've emailed them asking for different pricing, and "they don't support that". It's t
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Most of that is almost certainly, in part, for tax related reasons. Intel is profitable; profitable US companies want to keep those profits outside the US (see: Google).
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Man, what a piece of shit. Apple should pull this immediately.
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
"The way in/out points and compound clips work in FCPX is simply ridiculously awesome" You mean, the way it forgets the in/out points you set on a clip? Yeah, I LOVE that. So much more fun to re-trim each and every clip every time you click

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