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Netflix Search doesn’t find things

Published by marco on

If you search for “wet” on Netflix, you get two immediate hits: one for “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later” and another for a series called “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”.

It also returns many other, seemingly wildly unrelated titles. Maybe because the standard poster for “Wild Things” shows the ladies in a pool, even though the poster in the search results does not? One of the results is for a German movie whose title has the word “Wetten” in it, which actually means “to... [More]

The SBB and ZVV are greedy cheats

Published by marco on

The SBB ticketing app is offering me to the “City Wetzikon ZH” option, even though it knows that I already have those zones in a monthly ticket.

 The SBB wants to sell me a ticket I already have

They will never, ever, ever add a feature that would save money for the user. They will always err on the side of selling you the same zones multiple times.

Moar money is what it’s all about.

Or you can use the step on/step off feature, right? But then you have to let the app track your location while you’re commuting, and you have to remember to... [More]