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492 points storf45 | 12 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source | bottom
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dylan604 ◴[16 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42157048[source]▶
People just do not appreciate how many gotchas can pop up doing anything live. Sure, Netflix might have a great CDN that works great for their canned content and I could see how they might have assumed that's the hardest part.

Live has changed over the years from large satellite dishes beaming to a geosat and back down to the broadcast center($$$$$), to microwave to a more local broadcast center($$$$), to running dedicated fiber long haul back to a broadcast center($$$), to having a kit with multiple cell providers pushing a signal back to a broadcast center($$), to having a direct internet connection to a server accepting a live http stream($).

I'd be curious to know what their live plan was and what their redundant plan was.

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xyst ◴[16 Nov 24 20:37 UTC] No.42159101[source]▶
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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Xenoamorphous ◴[16 Nov 24 21:05 UTC] No.42159321[source]▶
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.
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1. rashabd ◴[16 Nov 24 21:09 UTC] No.42159354[source]▶
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brevity
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2. Xenoamorphous ◴[16 Nov 24 21:15 UTC] No.42159413[source]▶
Writing APPL instead of Apple doesn’t get you any fewer keystrokes.
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3. justinsaccount ◴[16 Nov 24 21:23 UTC] No.42159483[source]▶
also, the symbol for apple is AAPL.
4. SilasX ◴[16 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42159689[source]▶
Ugh. Similar (huge) pet peeve about people who say "n.B." instead of "note".
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5. oarsinsync ◴[16 Nov 24 23:06 UTC] No.42160311[source]▶
Technically 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.

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6. 082349872349872 ◴[16 Nov 24 23:23 UTC] No.42160453{3}[source]▶
Tangent: 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?]

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8. eviks ◴[17 Nov 24 03:43 UTC] No.42161827{3}[source]▶
Technically, you forgot capitalization, so it's more keystrokes
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9. eviks ◴[17 Nov 24 03:49 UTC] No.42161845{3}[source]▶
But it's "note well", not just "note"
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10. Xenoamorphous ◴[17 Nov 24 07:09 UTC] No.42162488{3}[source]▶
AAPL is only fewer keystrokes than Apple if you’re in a physical keyboard and hold the shift key, which makes it hardly more convenient. If you use caps lock presumably you’ll press it again.

On a phone, at least in iOS, you have to double tap the shift key.

11. SilasX ◴[17 Nov 24 08:27 UTC] No.42162811{4}[source]▶
Not sure if you’re joking, but if not: there’s no practical difference is what is being asked of the reader. Nobody predicates any decision on whether they were asked to note something vs note it well.

It’s pointless jargon.

12. umanwizard ◴[18 Nov 24 17:01 UTC] No.42174347{4}[source]▶
Apple is also capitalized, so it's still fewer. Unless you hit "Shift" separately for each character in AAPL?