top | item 28717125 (no title) nsoxo | 4 years ago Netflix is pushing data AND you are pulling it. discuss order hn newest jiggawatts|4 years ago No, they are not "pushing" data.Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.I pull YouTube videos.YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers. fouric|4 years ago "Push" and "pull" in this context refer to the initiation of a session. The user is pulling, because they start streaming. Netflix does absolutely nothing by itself - it doesn't randomly start delivering data to you. yunohn|4 years ago Nobody says that a bullock cart involves the bullock pulling the cart and the cart pushing the bullock. That’s only a physics framing. nsoxo|4 years ago This is commerce. It's a transaction. Both parties benefit.
jiggawatts|4 years ago No, they are not "pushing" data.Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.I pull YouTube videos.YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers.
fouric|4 years ago "Push" and "pull" in this context refer to the initiation of a session. The user is pulling, because they start streaming. Netflix does absolutely nothing by itself - it doesn't randomly start delivering data to you.
yunohn|4 years ago Nobody says that a bullock cart involves the bullock pulling the cart and the cart pushing the bullock. That’s only a physics framing. nsoxo|4 years ago This is commerce. It's a transaction. Both parties benefit.
jiggawatts|4 years ago
Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.
Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.
I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.
I pull YouTube videos.
YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.
Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers.
fouric|4 years ago
yunohn|4 years ago
nsoxo|4 years ago