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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 f
by xyst 2y ago
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.
- DrillShopper 2y agoA 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.
- throwaway2037 2y agoYou 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.
- Xenoamorphous 2y agoSorry 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.
- rashabd 2y agomerriam-webster.com/dictionary/brevity
- Xenoamorphous 2y agoWriting APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.
- justinsaccount 2y agoalso, the symbol for apple is AAPL.
- SilasX 2y agoUgh. Similar (huge) pet peeve about people who say "n.B." instead of "note".
- oarsinsync 2y agoTechnically it’s one fewer keystroke (and it’s AAPL). It’s a lot fewer keystrokes for MS (Morgan Stanley), GS (Goldman Sachs) and MSFT (Microsoft) than it is for AAPL, but it’s a force of habit for some. Once you’re used to referring to firms by their ticker symbols, you do it all the time. E.g. an ex trader friend still says “spot” instead of “point” when referring to decimal points, even if talking in other contexts like software versions.
- 082349872349872 2y agoTangent: Not fewer like F (Ford) or H (Hyatt Hotels). Unfortunately we don't have a full alphabet, missing {I, N, P, Q, Y}. I guess if we allowed the first two letter ticker symbol for the missing singles, we could send messages by mentioning a bunch of company names. Eg "Buy: Dominion Energy, Agilent. Hold: Nano Labs. Sell: Genpact." would refer to our esteemed moderator, and "Hyatt Hotels is pleased to announce special corporate rates for Nano Labs bookings" to this site itself. [maybe it would be better to use the companies where the corporate name and ticker letter don't match? Like US Steel for X and AT&T for T?]
- egypturnash 2y agoI just assume it's people who spend too much time thinking about the stock context.
- colordrops 2y agoIt's the core purpose of the organization. The ticker represents the most fundamental drive of the org. Seems appropriate and honest.
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- abduhl 2y agoI 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.”
- gverrilla 2y agoBigTechMercenaryNews ?
- School-Cotton 2y agoIn-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.
- dylan604 2y agoOr maybe they are pilots?
- NovemberWhiskey 2y ago"I flew into LHR on Monday" - frequent flyer "I flew into EGLL on Monday" - pilot
- xyst 2y agonot 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
- silisili 2y agoAs 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.
- xyst 2y agoI 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.
- dylan604 2y agoUm, 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.