kevincennis

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Director of engineering / founding team member @StarryInternet. Formerly @Aereo.

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Comment · 3 years ago
They also used the term "subfield".
Comment · 3 years ago
I forget who it was (maybe George Hotz) that said something to the effect of "All bad drivers are bad in different ways, but all good drivers are good in the same way".

The point being made was basically that in the aggregate you can more or less generalize to something like "the tall part of the bell curve is good driving and everything on the tails should be ignored".

Since learning happens in aggregate (individual cars don't learn – they simply feed data back to the mothership), your example of a single car errantly turning the wheel to adjust the radio would fall into the "bad in different ways" bucket and it would be ignored.

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Comment · 6 years ago
Can you expand on this?
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Comment · 7 years ago
I used to work at Aereo.

I fully expect Locast to lose, but this truly is an A+ troll. Really warms my heart.

Comment · 7 years ago
Want a sandbox that's big enough to use as an actual integration/staging environment rather than just a little toy "Developer Hub"? 15% of your annual contract.
Comment · 7 years ago
The problem with this is that it requires really successful artists to work for far less than the value they create, which they won't – because they know they could make far more money independently.

And without the top performers subsidizing the salaries of everyone else, the whole thing falls apart.

Comment · 7 years ago
No worries. When we first launched we were only in NYC, so for a while it was just one facility. But we kept adding them in each new market.
Comment · 7 years ago
We definitely did have our antennas in the same market (DMA) as our subscribers, and went to great lengths to prevent customers from streaming when outside of their home market, as we felt that approach best complied with existing law.
Comment · 7 years ago
Former Aereo employee here. A couple things:

1. Getting sued actually isn't as fun as it sounds

2. I love this so much

Locast is trolling in the best possible sense of the word.

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