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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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492 points storf45 | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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walrushunter ◴[16 Nov 24 04:16 UTC] No.42154141[source]▶
I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too.

Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

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moralestapia ◴[16 Nov 24 04:20 UTC] No.42154170[source]▶
I can +1 with a similar anecdote.

They obviously have some really good engineers, but many low-tier ones as well. No idea how long they stay there, though.

I'm watching the fight now and have experienced the buffering issues. Bit embarrassing for a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this. Also, yeah, 900k TC and whatnot but irl you get this. Mediocre.

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spencerchubb ◴[16 Nov 24 04:22 UTC] No.42154184[source]▶
livestream is quite different from streaming pre-processed video, so I'm not surprised by the scaling issues
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moralestapia ◴[16 Nov 24 04:29 UTC] No.42154245[source]▶
I know.

But given how much they spend on engineering, how much time they had and how important this event is ... mediocre performance.

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1. jhugo ◴[16 Nov 24 07:26 UTC] No.42155039{3}[source]▶
All true, but this part of your GP comment:

> a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this

… isn’t true. From the couch, watching Suits and watching a live sports match may seem similar but they’re very different technical problems to solve.

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2. Moru ◴[16 Nov 24 08:10 UTC] No.42155200[source]▶
Or in other words: In one case the "stream" is stored on a harddrive not far away from you, only competing for bandwidth in the last section to you. In the other case the "stream" is comming over the Internet to you and everyone else at the same time.