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0 pointsTeMPOraL4y ago0 comments

Which makes you wonder why they even bother with suggestions in the first place, instead of doing the obvious thing: giving you a searchable list of all movies they have for your region.

Given that the former is a major engineering project, while the latter is a junior-level interview question, one has to assume they're trying to confuse their users on purpose.

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disgruntledphd24y ago

Nah, it's presumably because they just lift and shift the US code to whatever new region they're in, without actually investing any thought into it.

This is a recurrent problem with US based services, as residents of the USA tend to forget that they are a very large country.

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0 pointsTeMPOraL4y ago0 comments

Which makes you wonder why they even bother with suggestions in the first place, instead of doing the obvious thing: giving you a searchable list of all movies they have for your region.

Given that the former is a major engineering project, while the latter is a junior-level interview question, one has to assume they're trying to confuse their users on purpose.

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disgruntledphd24y ago

Nah, it's presumably because they just lift and shift the US code to whatever new region they're in, without actually investing any thought into it.

This is a recurrent problem with US based services, as residents of the USA tend to forget that they are a very large country.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse