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Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
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Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#82The silence your phone step[1] is much easier if you use something like Tasker[2].
[1] http://makeit.netflix.com/the-switch/do-more#silence-your-de... [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#83"Get rid of all distractions, to be distracted."
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#84Others have mentioned the Flic and Amazon's Dash buttons. Here's the one I'm most excited about, which should (when they have an IFTTT channel) make things like the Netflix Switch doable for non-nerds: http://www.dropletlife.com/
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#85FYI for the DIYers, there is a little project that I contribute to on the side for fun. I also use it to do things just like the title suggests: https://home-assistant.io/
This is really cool, thanks for sharing.
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#86Speaking of which, do food APIs exist? I've often been tempted to make a generic pizza API that — by limiting options — will deliver a pizza to almost any address via Just-Eat or whatever is local to you.
There was this old Perl script for ordering Pizza at Domino's but I don't think it used an API (web scraping if I recall correctly).
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#87> order food, and silence your phone Really? Around me, delivery drivers have pretty much given up on doorbells. If your phone is silent you may not get your food.
In my city, it's fairly uncommon for any delivery person (pizza or shipping) to ring the doorbell, but it's quite likely they'll knock.
Lots of delivery drivers do call phones, but I see that happening more often when there are many places you could be (e.g. ordered to work, but are they going to come find you at your chair?)
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#88This can already be achieved with Flic: http://flic.io Flic is a Bluetooth button which uses your smartphone to communicate with smart electronics. If you have Philips Hue or LIFX smart lights and a Logitech Harmony Hub (for IR), this would work straight out of the box! (Disclaimer: I am associated with Flic)
But you're not shipping Flic yet, are you?
Re: Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly can't attribute any profiteering here. This is pure geek fun. Reminds me of the days of the Netflix Prize. http://www.netflixprize.com/
I am sure it was a blast, but it was NOT done "for fun" to amuse the engineering staff. Nor is it an effort at "home automation". This is part of a marketing campaign not unlike the office depot "easy" button, except they've designed an actual button that sort-of works. The point is to get people excited about the idea of a Netflix marathon and create some buzz among geeky subscribers. It doesn't matter how many peop…
Well, I'm sure that was an excuse, but seriously. Do you honestly think the kind of geeks that'd do this are really that important to a company like Netflix these days? Maybe at the beginning...
If I had to attribute anything, it's more of a recruiting move. They want clever hacker geeks working for them. Maybe they are moving into home automation and this will be an interview question? I dunno how effective that is, though. I think someone just said, yeah, screw it, let's do it!
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netflix seems like a great company to work for. Recommend reading Reed Hasting's presentation on their culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
sounds like a bunch of platitudes with a lot of HR speak (a lot of which I REALLY disagree with) And for having the "top talent" they have little to show for it on the technical side
Netflix has massive talent density, no doubt it. The only downside is that they grind through people like crazy.