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0 pointsxyst1y ago0 comments

You are making excuses for a multibillion dollar company that has been in this game for many years. Maybe the first to market in streaming.

This isn’t NFLX’s first rodeo in live streaming. Have seen a handful of events pop up in their apps.

There is no excuse. All of the resources and talent at their disposal, and they looked absolutely amateurish. Poor optics.

I would be amazed if they are able to secure another exclusive contract like this in the future.

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Xenoamorphous1y ago

Sorry for the off topic but what’s this thing that I only come across in Hacker News about referring to a company by their stock exchange name (APPL, MSFT, etc) outside of a stock context? It seems really weird to me.

umanwizard1y ago

In-group signaling for people who like playing or thinking about the stock market. Similar to how people who make travel a big part of their identity refer to cities by their airport code.

dylan6041y ago

Or maybe they are pilots?

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xystOP1y ago

not really. It’s just something I adopted as part of a job I had for fintech 3-4 yrs ago

I don’t do it as some sort of “signaling” for “fintech bros” or anything like that

abduhl1y ago

I have always assumed that a focus on stock tickers is the natural result when your primary user base is a group of people hyper focused on “total compensation” and stock grants. The name hackernews is merely a playful reference to the history of the site. Like the name “Patriot Act.”

gverrilla1y ago

BigTechMercenaryNews ?

silisili1y ago

As a counterpoint to some other replies, I do this sometimes, not thinking at all about stocks but instead as a standardized abbreviation of sorts. Ms for example can mean tons of things from a title to multiple sclerosis to milliseconds. MSFT is clear and half the length.

bombela1y ago

`Ms` would be megaseconds ;)

abduhl1y ago

Which is why we started calling it M$ in the 2000s, emphasizing its overriding goal of making ca$h off its users

egypturnash1y ago

I just assume it's people who spend too much time thinking about the stock context.

colordrops1y ago

It's the core purpose of the organization. The ticker represents the most fundamental drive of the org. Seems appropriate and honest.

xystOP1y ago

I used to gather fringe signals for shitty hedge funds, “fintech” from public communities such as HN.

I think I subconsciously adopted it since it made my job easier. Sort of how I use YYYYMMDD format in almost everything from programming to daily communication.

rashabd1y ago

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brevity

Xenoamorphous1y ago

Writing APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.

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DrillShopper1y ago

A company that readily admits it burns out SWRs and SREs in exchange for the big bucks.

Just what the fuck are these people doing?

If I were a major investor in them I'd be pissed.

throwaway20371y ago

You probably are a major investor, incidentally, through your pension fund(s) and retirement savings. It is hard to avoid Netflix if you are doing any kind of broad-based index investing.

dylan6041y ago

Um, aksually…

I was pointing out how dumb a multibillion dollar company is for getting this so wrong. Broadcasting live events is something that is underestimated by everyone that has never it, yet hubris of a major tech company thinking it knows better is biting them in the ass.

As many other people have commented, so many other very large dwarfing this event have been pulled off with no hiccups visible to the viewers. I have amazing stories of major hiccups during MLB World Series that viewers had no idea about happening, but “inside baseball” people knew. To the point that the head of the network caught something during the broadcast calling the director in the truck saying someone is either going to be fired or get a raise yet the audience would never have noticed if the person ended up getting fired. They didn’t, btw.

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Xenoamorphous1y ago

umanwizard1y ago

In-group signaling for people who like playing or thinking about the stock market. Similar to how people who make travel a big part of their identity refer to cities by their airport code.

dylan6041y ago

Or maybe they are pilots?

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xystOP1y ago

not really. It’s just something I adopted as part of a job I had for fintech 3-4 yrs ago

I don’t do it as some sort of “signaling” for “fintech bros” or anything like that

abduhl1y ago

gverrilla1y ago

BigTechMercenaryNews ?

silisili1y ago

bombela1y ago

`Ms` would be megaseconds ;)

abduhl1y ago

Which is why we started calling it M$ in the 2000s, emphasizing its overriding goal of making ca$h off its users

egypturnash1y ago

I just assume it's people who spend too much time thinking about the stock context.

colordrops1y ago

It's the core purpose of the organization. The ticker represents the most fundamental drive of the org. Seems appropriate and honest.

xystOP1y ago

I used to gather fringe signals for shitty hedge funds, “fintech” from public communities such as HN.

I think I subconsciously adopted it since it made my job easier. Sort of how I use YYYYMMDD format in almost everything from programming to daily communication.

rashabd1y ago

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brevity

Xenoamorphous1y ago

Writing APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.

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DrillShopper1y ago

A company that readily admits it burns out SWRs and SREs in exchange for the big bucks.

Just what the fuck are these people doing?

If I were a major investor in them I'd be pissed.

throwaway20371y ago

You probably are a major investor, incidentally, through your pension fund(s) and retirement savings. It is hard to avoid Netflix if you are doing any kind of broad-based index investing.

dylan6041y ago

Um, aksually…

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