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Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by Domenic_S »

neuronic wrote: post #338
MentallyRetired wrote: post #288

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OP on the thread and actually I'm a former disney dev for disneyworld.com. It's a sweat shop. They had me working 100 hours a week the first 4 months I was there. They would order me food so I wouldnt have to leave my desk. Many times I slept under it. Then I had 6 months of pretty normal hours working on maintenance, then I went back on another project and they had me working 60 - 80 hours (with some 40 and some 100…

> They would order me food so I wouldnt have to leave my desk. Many times I slept under it. Is this work culture the norm in the US? I audibly said "wtf" just now, sitting at my work desk.

No, it is absolutely not the norm.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by neuronic »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #363
neuronic wrote: post #338

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> They would order me food so I wouldnt have to leave my desk. Many times I slept under it. Is this work culture the norm in the US? I audibly said "wtf" just now, sitting at my work desk.

The US has workers who, on average, work longer hours than anywhere else in the world. Salaries, esp. in STEM, and esp. on the mid-to-high-end, are also wayyy higher than anywhere else. If you want to make that fat US developer salary be ready to put in the work. Presumably Disney has the money to throw at you via salary... but they're going to get their money's worth.

But aren't these high salaries spent on high living costs as well? Presumably, the places where you make a lot of dev money are also expensive to live at, no?

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Post by JBlue42 »

a-wu wrote: post #151
jonwachob91 wrote: post #147

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>>> The logical conclusion, of course, is that Disney should've just bought Netflix Why buy Netflix when you could get a similarly qualified team and infrastructure by buying Hulu? Oh wait... Disney already owns Hulu... Whoops. What about ESPN. ESPN has a really good streaming product. Oh wait... Disney already owns that one too... Disney didn't need to buy Netflix, they just needed to use the resources they already…

ESPN's streaming is one of the worst ones I've ever used. It is constantly buffering on my 275 Mbps downlink and every other time it has issues with authenticating to my provider.

Is that the same as ESPN+? I have that (no tv cable package) and haven't had problems buffering and the video seems more crisp than when I had YouTubeTV. Only issue I've come across is that it eats up RAM in Firefox but has no issues in Chrome. Same for NBC Sports Gold.

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Post by JBlue42 »

jumbopapa wrote: post #94
fluidcruft wrote: post #41

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Yeah, what is it with Netflix and making it impossible to find something to watch anymore? It's like you open it up and not only do all the lists change and it's not easy to find things, but they also run around changing the cover images of the series you've been watching so you don't even recognize it at first and you're hunting around to find it again.

Check out Reelgood [1]. It aggregates all of the streaming services and allows you to filter on genre, IMDB, and Rotten Tomatoes. I don't have to waste time looking through a bunch of junk to find something worth watching anymore. [1] - https://reelgood.com/

That looks interesting. I've been using instantwatcher for a while. It does Netflix well. The Amazon side is frightening in the amount of 'content' they host and I guess the API for Amazon Prime doesn't break things into usable subcategories as well as Netflix.

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Post by planetzero »

cwkoss wrote: post #257
planetzero wrote: post #249

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"Piracy isn't stealing, that's intellectual property lobbyist propaganda." You're correct, but it's worse than theft. When you steal a car, just that car is stolen. Piracy devalues the original product...something theft can't really ever do. "I would happily download a car: zero cost reproduction of useful things makes society as a whole richer." But how much did it cost to produce the first car? and do you actually…

Culture is public. By arguing that it should be privately owned, you are effectively saying that poor people shouldn't be allowed to participate. Disney's business model has been destroying the potential of thousands of great artists who failed to reach cultural relevancy because their parents were barely making ends meet and couldn't afford to buy in, and the cultural language is now locked behind a gate with a toll…

"Culture is public. By arguing that it should be privately owned, you are effectively saying that poor people shouldn't be allowed to participate."

There are plenty of options, like going to your public library, that don't involve copyright infringement.

How are poor children able to download a movie illegally from the Internet, yet can't don't have any money to purchase it legally?

"Why are the greedy profit motivations of a giant multinational corporation more important to you than poor children's cultural participation? You aren't being a rational realist, you are just being selfish and classist."

You could say the same thing about anything: you are depriving a poor family a home if they can't move into yours without paying you, you greedy classist!

"Disney built their business on the back of the public domain. Every single great movie they made builds off the work of others."

Yet, the public domain movie wasn't nearly as popular nor do we even remember them. This means they added value. You also failed to mention all of the jobs Disney provides. Should all of these people be deprived a living (and possibly lose their homes?

"Can you name single great work of art created by Disney that isn't mostly derivative? Reflect on why you can't: they are monetizers of existing culture, not creators of originality."

Can you name the original works? If not, they probably weren't that good.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

kedean wrote: post #367
NikolaNovak wrote: post #149

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>. They should’ve let people link individual Netflix accounts together Spotify does that and it's a complete deal breaker. I want to log in to all my home devices _once_, with a single account. Not continuously log out and log in and try to type complex passwords with a remote control. I mean, I can't even play different songs on different Google Homes or different TVs with Spotify, unless I sign in with different ac…

When's the last time you used Spotify? Honest question, because that's the exact opposite of how Spotify works. You can be logged into as many devices as you want with the same profile, you just can't play simultaneously on each device without setting up profiles. I love that implementation, because it means I can seamlessly transition a song i'm playing on my phone over to another device with the app controls.

Every day.

Again, the use case is different.

What you describe: If you are an individual, ability to login same profile on many devices is sufficient (both netflix & spotify do this).

I'm talking about family use-case with multiple devices.

With Netflix, my wife, myself, our kids, anybody, can click a profile button on any of our devices (TV, tablets, phones, etc) and simply continue watching what they were watching, get their recommendations, etc. Crucially, they can watch different stuff at the same time on living room TV and basement TV, with no hassle.

I have opened support cases and there is currently no way I'm aware of to do that with Spotify. I have Google Homes in all the rooms, and I want to seemlessly play different stuff in different places. To do that, I have to create as many accounts as there are devices (that's a LOT!), AND each device is now locked in to their playlist/song/etc.

The underlying difference of paradigm is: 1. Netflix - single account with multiple soft profiles. You can watch as many streams on same account as you paid for, hassle free

2. Spotify - multiple accounts loosely linked solely for purpose of billing. Each account can not stream multiple places. So if you want to stream something on three devices in parallel, you have to a) Create three accounts; b) log in separately with those accounts in each device. What when I have dozen devices? (4-6 Google Homes, 6+ tablets and phones)? It is now insane to do anything.

Basically we now exist as isolated islands and have given up on listening to music in kitchen and family room at the same time. This is awful.

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