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Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Post by DarkTree » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

w0000t wrote: post #68

DarkTree wrote: post #55

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I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.

That is a pretty naive point of view. That amount of know-how, and I'm assuming he knows much more that has presented, is normal for someone who has been programming for 15+ years straight. If you find yourself still seriously programming after a few years, try evaluating this position then.

ha I actually had typed out a sentencing saying, "this may be just my naivety since I'm inexperienced.." but deleted it but yeah I'm curious if that point will ever come for me.

Still I think in my position I am qualified to say that Casey is exceptionally good at explaining programming.

Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Post by shostack » Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

exodust wrote: post #73

shostack wrote: post #35

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That was fascinating--thanks for sharing. Really depressing as well when I consider I will never make that amount doing my day job :) What I'm racking my brain on is three things: 1. How are these videos getting around and who is the primary audience watching them? Is it really children? Or is it the ASMR crowd who are just sitting there entranced and racking up the video ad view count? 2. What sort of video ads are…

I know why you're asking those questions. We all want to earn millions from doing little work. Without a doubt I think luck is involved for these to go viral initially. There's no magic formula. For every lucky multi-million viewer channel with this sort of content, there's a thousand others who aren't so lucky no matter how hard they try. The perfect storm of internal and external mentions and sharing strikes the ri…

I actually have no plans to take a stab at the world of Youtube stardom--I'm just not a performer in that regard.

I'm a senior digital media guy so I'm more curious about it from an advertising/audience/CPM standpoint TBH.

I understand luck is a large factor, but the barrier to entry for this seems to be pretty nails, a soothing voice, and the ability to film yourself opening a box of kids toys and putting them back in. The more interesting part of it is the marketing side frankly, which entails how they built their viewership, what they do to actively promote it, etc.

Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Post by jononor » Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 4:09 PM UTC

gtremper wrote: post #49

finnn wrote: post #38

Went to check it out, all content is in flash. This is 2015, flash is no longer acceptable, especially on sites where the target audience is tech people. Hey at least they have TLS

There's no real alternative to flash at the moment for live video. Youtube only recently switched from flash for live video for chromo/safari and still uses flash on Firefox.

Stream with 10-30 seconds delay, use element?

Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Post by swah » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

w0000t wrote: post #79

swah wrote: post #75

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He is very familiar with the compilers too.

Can you name the those compilers?

He works on VS2013 on Windows, and LLVM+GDB+QtCreator on Linux, IIRC. He has also commented on the "involution" of Visual Studio in the last years, making it difficult to the user to ship a standalone executable.

(He has praised Turbo C several times - probably his favorite environment in the 90's, never matched these days in some ways... )

Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

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Post by Bentenitis » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #10

It should be noted that Livecoding.tv is (YC S15). Also, the article states there are "legions of coders" flocking to the site but I can't find much evidence of that, if the Twitter account ( http://twitter.com/livecodingtv ) which tweets all live streams, is anything to go by. At the least, if I wanted to livestream code, I would do it on YouTube where I can stream 1080p60fps. (I'm also sore about Livecoding.tv's "y…

I'm able to watch livestreams on livecodingtv without registering