1 1/2 T. grated orange rind
1/2 C. sugar
1/8 C. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
3/4 C. fresh-squeezed orange juice
.5 t. vanilla
2 C. very cold milk
2 C. heavy cream
Spread sugar out on silicone baking mat, grate orange over sugar, return sugar to bowl or measuring vessel for 4 hours. (Thanks Ed!)
Combine all components and stir until sugar disolves.
Pour mixture in ice cream freezer and freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
An open letter to Netflix about Profiles
Wow how incredibly shortsighted of you. You would rather reduce functionality because your customers are too much of a cost to you than view it as an opportunity for innovation.
I've been a Netflix customer for years and this really upsets me, whats even more upsetting is I never knew about this feature! So here is my suggestion.
You have just experienced the Streisand effect. Something you wanted to sweep under the rug is getting all kinds of attention so make it better. Get some of those fancy coders who did the nice hover over popups into a conference room with pizza and mountain dew and feed them some ideas. Like a axjax based gui for the profiles! When someone who is using profiles goes to view their cue make it like a pretend production line. Limit families to 4 profiles(or less if they have less than a 4 movie plan). Then while viewing the queue, display 4 button like blocks lined up horizontally. under each list the queue for each of those members. Inside the 'block' display the current movies out to this person. Also in the block list the max # out to this person with an option to change it. With each of these blocks sitting on top of each profiled queue I cant see how the average maroon would get confused. Additional function could be added to the queues in an ajax like interface such as drag and drop.
But no, that wasn't what you did. Instead of innovation you've chosen to alienate your power users, never a good choice. If you're unwilling to handle this then open an API to the outside world and let Free OSS developers build external products to manage Queues for your users, all completely unsupported by you keeping your costs down.
I've been a Netflix customer for years and this really upsets me, whats even more upsetting is I never knew about this feature! So here is my suggestion.
You have just experienced the Streisand effect. Something you wanted to sweep under the rug is getting all kinds of attention so make it better. Get some of those fancy coders who did the nice hover over popups into a conference room with pizza and mountain dew and feed them some ideas. Like a axjax based gui for the profiles! When someone who is using profiles goes to view their cue make it like a pretend production line. Limit families to 4 profiles(or less if they have less than a 4 movie plan). Then while viewing the queue, display 4 button like blocks lined up horizontally. under each list the queue for each of those members. Inside the 'block' display the current movies out to this person. Also in the block list the max # out to this person with an option to change it. With each of these blocks sitting on top of each profiled queue I cant see how the average maroon would get confused. Additional function could be added to the queues in an ajax like interface such as drag and drop.
But no, that wasn't what you did. Instead of innovation you've chosen to alienate your power users, never a good choice. If you're unwilling to handle this then open an API to the outside world and let Free OSS developers build external products to manage Queues for your users, all completely unsupported by you keeping your costs down.
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