Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix • Hacker News Board

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by gjkood » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:02 AM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #7

Can we change the link to http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70302182?trkid=13752289 so people can read the show information or add it to their queues before deciding whether they want to watch it?

I just tried to change the URL but the 'edit' feature is only allowing me to edit the Title and not the URL. Does anyone know how I can edit the URL also?

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by bjwbell » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:03 AM UTC

w-ll wrote: post #6

In all honesty I didn't really enjoy the series. I keep watching because it felt so alien. All the characters seamed very 1 dimensional, and the writing I felt like it was reaching and not really selling. If you can, watch it, make up your own mind.

I felt the same. It had the surface qualities of a series about nerdy/geeky computers in the 80s. But missed the essence. I identify much more with Mike Judge's work in Office Space & his Silicon Valley tv series.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by mturmon » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:14 AM UTC

w-ll wrote: post #6

In all honesty I didn't really enjoy the series. I keep watching because it felt so alien. All the characters seamed very 1 dimensional, and the writing I felt like it was reaching and not really selling. If you can, watch it, make up your own mind.

A soap opera with a technical facade.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by elemenopy » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:24 AM UTC

icpmacdo wrote: post #4

jlawer wrote: post #2

Not in .au

I assume it steals every piece of data it can but this chrome extension works for US Netflix http://hola.org/

More than that: unless you buy the premium subscription, you're actually acting as an exit node for their network. So be careful of that.

http://hola.org/premium https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1qnphj/psa_if_your...

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by sehugg » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:29 AM UTC

FWIW a lot of this history is covered in PBS's "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary without the dramatic license. Kudos to the producers for attempting to make BIOS reverse engineering look exciting, though.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by iLoch » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:42 AM UTC

icpmacdo wrote: post #4

jlawer wrote: post #2

Not in .au

I assume it steals every piece of data it can but this chrome extension works for US Netflix http://hola.org/

I mean honestly I just bought a VPN connection. Costs me $45 a year and (probably?) doesn't steal anything. I realized how much time I spent trying to find mirrors and torrents for things that were widely available to stream in the US, and decided it was more practical to spend the money.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by GigabyteCoin » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:45 AM UTC

gjkood wrote: post #11

Zikes wrote: post #7

Can we change the link to http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70302182?trkid=13752289 so people can read the show information or add it to their queues before deciding whether they want to watch it?

I just tried to change the URL but the 'edit' feature is only allowing me to edit the Title and not the URL. Does anyone know how I can edit the URL also?

You'll probably never be able to do that due to security concerns.

It can be much more damanging to a website to allow arbitrary changes to the URL posted on their homepage Vs. a string of text.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by robbiet480 » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:49 AM UTC

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #17

gjkood wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried to change the URL but the 'edit' feature is only allowing me to edit the Title and not the URL. Does anyone know how I can edit the URL also?

You'll probably never be able to do that due to security concerns. It can be much more damanging to a website to allow arbitrary changes to the URL posted on their homepage Vs. a string of text.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe that HN previously has let me change URLs but I did notice the same issue that gjkood mentioned on a recently submitted link...

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by gregulrajani » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:50 AM UTC

The first season start of well with lots of cool dramatised hacking and startup culture scenes. But near the middle of the first season it had turned into a unbelievable soap opera with a bit of tech as a backdrop.

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (Season 1) available on Netflix

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Post by randomnumber53 » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 6:56 AM UTC

gregulrajani wrote: post #19

The first season start of well with lots of cool dramatised hacking and startup culture scenes. But near the middle of the first season it had turned into a unbelievable soap opera with a bit of tech as a backdrop.

Silicon Valley, on the other hand, is great.