Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
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#52With all of this technology applied, I am still disappointed by Netflix's recommendations – to the point of just giving up and doing something else.
Maybe you're just disappointed with Netflix's inventory, not their recommendations.
I think it's both. I'm usually able to find decent stuff by searching "best on netflix" with some modifiers, but I almost never find new stuff I like by scrolling on netflix.
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#53Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
There was a point in time when FAANG offered the best compensation packages for engineers (Netflix was one of them) - so that's where the term originated from but while it's outdated in many respects (Microsoft is not included, Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet etc etc) it's still sticky for some reason.
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#54Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
The phrase originated w/ Jim Cramer, it refers to the 5 best performing tech stocks(or what were the best performing at the time). Nothing to do with their impact on the field from a technical perspective, just a business perspective.
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#55Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
Netflix has contributed a lot to Java micro services, see Eureka and Hystrix.
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#56Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
FAANG was created by the TV personality Jim Cramer to talk about high growth tech stocks. At the time Netflix was doubling every year. It was based purely on finance.
It's now been taken over by the tech industry to be shorthand for places that are highly selective in their hiring and tend to work on cutting edge tech at scale.
That being said, the impact of Netflix on tech is pretty big. They pioneered using the cloud to run at massive scale.
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#57Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
All the cool kids say GAMMA now.
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#58Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
Netflix has contributed a lot to Java micro services, see Eureka and Hystrix.
as well as to ML - Netflix Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize) and Metaflow (https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow)
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#59Tangent, but I was recently thinking about how FAANG, is now MAANG, and the definition of mange :
(from a google search, lol)
mange
/mānj/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: mange
a skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites and occasionally communicable to humans. It typically causes severe itching, hair loss, and the formation of scabs and lesions.
"foxes that get mange die in three or four months"
I find it oddly poetic, but, this is my last day of magic.
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#60Off-topic, but how did Netflix manage to get itself inserted into the FAANG acronym anyway? Their impact on the tech industry is trivial compared to all the others. Sure, if you just take out the N it's offensive, but we could have said "GAFA" or "FAAMG" would be more accurate to include Microsoft in their place.
I think the acronym gained prominence before Microsoft's recent 'commitment' to open source. Netflix also seemed to be doing really interesting things scaling out 'disruption' to video delivery at the time. It stuck