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Comment Re:Why is (Score 5, Interesting) 201

He's really not. Right now, for example, he mostly works on a Chromebook. At least that's what he's usually on when I see him working in the kitchen*.

(I work at Netflix)

* Reed doesn't have an office / cubicle / set location, so he tends to work either in a common area or in a random conference room until you kick him out because you reserved the room

Comment Re:This does pose the question: (Score 2) 195

Two comments:

1. Their internal motto was, in fact, "go fast and break stuff"; I know this first-hand because I talked with them about that at my interview back in February, where they mentioned that they've changed to "go fast and be bold" because, in fact, they were trying to lower incidents of availability hits;

2. 20+ years of tech industry experience here, and I was totally ready to be interviewed by some snot-nosed kid. What I got instead was an interview panel whose average tech industry tenure was around 17 years. I was, uniformly, impressed with the caliber of the people I met with there -- they verged from "pretty decent" in one case, to "pretty great" in all but two other cases, to "I'd take a $10K pay cut to work with this person" for the last two people. I was pretty surprised, and delighted.

Comment Re:Next wave of phishing? (Score 1) 149

How does confirming the domain's identity automatically solve this problem?

If someone from the gxail.com domain sends me email (let's assume here the 'x' is some weird Cyrillic character that looks just like an 'm'), any automated confirmation of the domain's validity would not do some sort of eyeball check "Oh, that looks like gmail.com, let's confirm if it is, oops it isn't..." but rather an automated "did that email come from gxail.com? Yup, sure did."

Even if you popped up a notice that said "hey, I don't know about that domain," the typical user -- heck, I'd argue even the typical Slashdot user -- would go "weird, looks like it lost creds for it" and click whatever the equivalent of "Oh well" button the notice had.

Comment Political diatribes (Score 0) 342

Is this the same Lawrence Krauss who polluted the Scientific American for years with his leftist political diatribes? I have no problem with Comgress cutting the political dead wood from the Energy Department or any other department of government. There are enough activists in the bureaucracy.

Comment Re:Alternate view (Score 2) 354

Netflix raised prices back in May; existing customers are grandfathered in for a while (when prices went up in Ireland, customers were grandfathered for two years). More at http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthe...

Given that this was done in Q2, and the earnings call was about Q2, I believe Reed was talking about that particular raise (which, again, happened two months ago), not a new raise. There's no new raise.

(I work at Netflix, but I just play with computers).

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