I attribute and applaud the strong leadership of Reed Hastings. Apple and Tim Cook is another example. Both companies keep their products and secrets close to their chest, and don't put-up with employees who think their political views or personal agendas are more important than the company. Leadership by committee (Google is notorious) in my view is not the answer. Large public companies should be dictatorships. The quote; and I'll be sure to get it right (oops Texans owner) "the inmates are running the asylum" holds true for Google and Facebook.
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#32That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k. Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topics such as salary - they put their money where their mouth is and basically egg everyone on to beat them. Gotta respect that a company is willing to do that (I don’t work for them, but…
Surely you have some selection bias in your Netflix-employed acquaintances. I would imagine their average/median salary is lower than that.
About 7 years ago, I recall they were paying software folks 40-50% more than the competition (Google, etc).
Netflix is known for a few things: They pay really well. They don't tolerate drops in performance. The two go hand in hand (they're open about it). And as someone else mentioned, they encourage their employees to interview elsewhere, and they make it their goal to try to match any higher offer the employee gets.
I think their culture is the type that self-selects. People who don't want the stress of being a top performer all the time tend not to apply, or leave very quickly.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.
The rest of my point is basically "on their junior developers." What I'm referring to is the mismatch between what Google and Facebook actually do (monetize machine learning to sell ads) compared to what they claim to do when they recruit ("come change the world" etc.). The same is not true of Netflix with DRM.
Well, I doubt Netflix tell junior developers when they recruit them, that they are now in league with MPAA and on the wrong side of all things copyright. DRM is just a part of it all.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?
"If you want to steal shit that's your prerogative, but don't pretend like you have moral high ground." Whether making a copy of a sequence of numbers without depriving the "owner" of those numbers of anything is theft is debatable.
That sequence of 0s and 1s cost money to make.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?
1. DRM only hurts legitimate users. 2. Netflix claimed it's not their intent to use DRM, but demand comes from film publishers who distribute content through them. 3. Netflix make their own films now, but you can't find them DRM-free (legally). Ergo, it's also their fault DRM was pushed into HTML. Q.E.D.
For whatever reason you seem to be on a puritanical crusade against anything DRM.
So tell me again how Netflix subscribers, who are only purchasing the right to be able to stream videos on a limited release cycle, are hurt by Netflix's use of DRM? I followed the massive draconian DRM push by the gaming industry, MPAA and RIAA during the 00s and let me tell you son - this ain't nothing close.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> so there's no ethical shell game being played Netflix has some shady stuff like DRM going on, while pretending it's not their fault it was pushed into HTML standard.
How can Netflix survive if you're able to pay $15 and download every video they have?
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#38I have no clue how netflix can survive with the price and being able to virtually download everything they have in their library.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. DRM only hurts legitimate users. 2. Netflix claimed it's not their intent to use DRM, but demand comes from film publishers who distribute content through them. 3. Netflix make their own films now, but you can't find them DRM-free (legally). Ergo, it's also their fault DRM was pushed into HTML. Q.E.D.
For whatever reason you seem to be on a puritanical crusade against anything DRM. So tell me again how Netflix subscribers, who are only purchasing the right to be able to stream videos on a limited release cycle, are hurt by Netflix's use of DRM? I followed the massive draconian DRM push by the gaming industry, MPAA and RIAA during the 00s and let me tell you son - this ain't nothing close.
Not whatever, but quite simple reason of DRM being unethical overreaching preemptive policing methodology, on top of which is built an entire corrupted and undemocratic set of legal mechanisms like DMCA-1201 (anti-circumvention provisions).
>So tell me again how Netflix subscribers, who are only purchasing the right to be able to stream videos on a limited release cycle, are hurt by Netflix's use of DRM?
Others already brought examples above with this DRM limiting usability of where videos can be watched. But that's a minor damage in comparison with damage done by DRM pushed into HTML standard itself, in which Netflix is complicit.
See https://boingboing.net/2017/03/21/we-cant-handle-the-truth.h...
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rest of my point is basically "on their junior developers." What I'm referring to is the mismatch between what Google and Facebook actually do (monetize machine learning to sell ads) compared to what they claim to do when they recruit ("come change the world" etc.). The same is not true of Netflix with DRM.
Well, I doubt Netflix tell junior developers when they recruit them, that they are now in league with MPAA and on the wrong side of all things copyright. DRM is just a part of it all.
I guess I'm giving you a tip o' the hat as we pass each other by on our respective hobby horses.