[jiggawatts]

I go on this rant regularly, and apparently Netflix staff never visit Hacker News, or just don't care.

Interestingly, it took quite a bit of dev effort to make their subtitles this bad. They had to figure out which subset of languages to show in each region, for example.

I'm sure these decisions are made by the same team that refuses to show English subtitles, and instead always uses English for the hearing impaired. Because why would any human not be able to understand English unless they're deaf, right? Also... no French people are deaf. Everyone knows that.

[offices]

By not hiring junior devs, they're missing out on a large chunk of those of us who spend their workday raging at technology on HN.

[jiggawatts]

You might be saying this in jest, but it’s true. Or more accurately, they may have junior devs, but they’re not listened to.

I see this effect regularly at $dayjob where the senior decision makers are too busy to waste time in forums like this… so they don’t get to find out what the entire industry seems to know.

E.g.: they keep choosing Angular for “cold blooded” apps, the type the government develops under a tender that then sits there unmaintained for a decade. Meanwhile Angular has one of the highest rates of churn of any large codebase and takes continuous sustained maintenance to keep up with.