I thought I was the only borland's blue background widow out there.
It immediately reminded me of my days of dabbling in QBasic.
Writing System Software [video]
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Re: Writing System Software [video]
#52Excited to check out this series and glad that Antirez took the time to make it. Would be cool to see more people make this kind of thing in the same mold of this and the DHH series from the last few weeks. Very interesting to hear something like a person's inner monologue while they're writing and reading code.
I've been trying similar-style videos on advanced data analysis/visualization since such screencasts are an unexplored area (my most recent video using Stack Overflow data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OeyTfp7eq8 ) but there are a few snags which make it less accessible for anyone to do: 1. It requires subject preparation to avoid going off on a tangent. (in the case of the video above I cheated and use prewritte…
>good light for webcam
Studio lighting would solve that and falls into your mentioned price range per item.
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#53It's really fun to see that the people that we consider geniuses are really just smart people spending their lives forming concepts into reality, one function at a time, like the rest of us.
OTOH, smart people often build systems with excessive complexity, leading to maintenance problems. Genius is found in making complex things comprehensible and simple.
I would say that people who build systems with excessive complexity are (almost per definition) not smart. They made appear confident and have a high level of "I am so smart" feel about them. But they are clearly not.
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#54Having a hard time getting past the blatant use of vi instead of emacs... ;-)
I'm not strongly in one side or the other btw ;-) Just happened to start with vim feeling very well with it, and continued for years. From time to time tried Emacs back in the days (20 years ago, like), and was nice but could not found a reason to switch, very different paradigm.
Yeah, I'm just teasing a bit... which is apparently not much appreciated.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the videos, it's always a pleasure watching good engineers work. A lot to learn. As a side note, can you share your Terminal color scheme? It's really nice
This is inspired to the commodore C64, I just picked a few random colors with the picker in the terminal. Unfortunately I lost the color scheme the previous week while in Tel Aviv, since this color scheme does not work well when projected so I had to switch to B/W and the simplest way was to just modify the current color scheme.
Do you do all your coding on a laptop with no external monitor?
Re: Writing System Software [video]
#56I really feel bad about blatant self-promotion; especially in a thread like this about somebody else who is producing video content. However, I think some folks here may enjoy my work. I have a daily programming stream on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/nybblesio . I stream from 5am-10am MT Monday to Saturday. (I have to take at least one day off or my brain overheats.) I also archive all of my streams to my YouTube channe…
There's nothing wrong with self-promoting on HN. In fact it's not far from the sole point of HN.
Though it's amusing when people come out of the woodwork and call you a spammer. That happened to me once. It's like... Yeah, but that's what we're all doing here. What's the point otherwise? We all build stuff and we all talk about it.
Re: Writing System Software [video]
#57I really feel bad about blatant self-promotion; especially in a thread like this about somebody else who is producing video content. However, I think some folks here may enjoy my work. I have a daily programming stream on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/nybblesio . I stream from 5am-10am MT Monday to Saturday. (I have to take at least one day off or my brain overheats.) I also archive all of my streams to my YouTube channe…
i confess i am completely not understanding this trend in twitch streaming coding. i prefer asynchronous videos where i can speed or fastforward through parts. i understand the value in seeing people make and solve mistakes but that can’t be the only value in -watching- a live stream can it? (is this what it feels like to be old?)
I think the essence of any live streaming is an active chat; viewers ask questions, point out mistakes, &c. you 'engage' w/ your audience irt.
Re: Writing System Software [video]
#58Excellent series. English is easy to understand and the thought process is simple to follow. The only suggestion that I have is to make the videos a bit shorter. 10 to 15 minutes will work great for me.
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#59In case you are interested in providing feedbacks about the next episodes, my current list of potential ideas is: 1. Code snippets: show small self contained functions from random places inside Redis. 2. Redis Sentinel: the first design, the immediate redesign of v2, and how it is internally implemented. 3. The use of goto in Redis. 4. Redis protocol parsing and zero-copying of objects. 5. The odd Redis persistence m…
Only thing I have to suggest is changing your sound recording setup to reduce the echo. Interesting stuff, I haven't had to write C++ in a few years, it's nice to have a bit of a refresher.
I'm enjoying this very much too, but the bell is jarring.
Re: Writing System Software [video]
#60Having watched similar series in the past, I would highly recommend some extra effort be put into the presentation - recording videos with no attention to lighting or sound makes it really hard to see and hear what's going on. Specifically for me, it's really hard to understand what's being said over the keyboard and reverb. Some basic lighting (so your face isn't in shadows), a separate directional microphone (even…
I haven't had any issues with the audio. How are you listening to it?