It's like we never watch TV? This can serve a great purpose of youtube and learning altogether. We always can stay reading articles. But I just view this as a place where we can watch some great(?!) tech videos when needed.
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#142I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…
I've noticed certain communities that live on the edge of tech-savvy do this a lot. In particular emulator and jailbreak communities for video game consoles refuse to keep up-to-date text guides on things. Everything is done on YouTube which is such a terrible format when you need to follow 30-step lists and pause to click on many links throughout the process to download software, firmware and exploits.
Especially jailbreak for consoles do have youtube tutorials, but its advised against as those are usually done by amateurs and outdated as soon as they hit.
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#143I can't get enough of that groovy loop they are playing behind their intro sequence. I miss having viewing events on a schedule, and hope this succeeds for them.
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#144Really cool. More than just the techy talks I am more interested in their nerdy cooking show and where they goof around.
Would love to see things like twitch where they share their screen and write interesting things or play a game.
I watch Suz Hinton (@noopkat) from occasionally and her stuff is pretty entertaining (Aussie accent helps too)
They should get interesting folks like that on the show.
The MIT AI podcast by Lex Fridman is pretty brilliant. He gets high caliber folks on his podcast. That level of intellectual curiosity would deffo make the TV station a hit amongst the niche community.
It almost makes me wonder why YC never thought of this.
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#145I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…
I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business video series, and even now focuses on putting out 1-2 videos (on businesses As a creator, it’s laziness - I can produce a video in far less time than a quality article. As a consumer, I’ve started watching a few more video channels to learn from others - but would much prefer and retain information from the written word.
The compromise I’m approaching: YouTube do a pretty good job of automatically creating subtitles. These are readily formatted so I can add punctuation, edit, and polish into something readable (and searchable).
That also provides a text transcript!
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are those concerns?
len('accessibility') == 13 So a11y stands for "a word starting with 'a' then 11 letters then ending with 'y'". Compare to i18n, l10n.
I hadn't seen any of these before, and the first word I found for i18n was "iodochlorhydroxyquin". Seemed somewhat unlikely.
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#147I'm wrong about all sorts of things, but I have a funny feeling that we're going to look back someday and see this as the first of many companies of a significant size launching something that looks just like a TV station. I can't emphasize how incredibly brilliant this is: it appears to be a perfectly curated combination of pure marketing webinar, tutorials, educational lectures and who knows what else. This is an e…
I haven't ever really used it, but doesn't Microsoft run its own tv style video series since more than a decade?
I don't understand the format personally (I'd always take articles over video). It's probably appealing to a demographic that I'm not. But in either case, the approach is many years old.
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#148Ok. Let's put aside the content that Cloudflare will produce. They aren't a content company.
What they are showing is that cable is dying and using Cloudflare technology they can standup a global 24-hour TV station.
How many TV stations are there around the world? A lot and the future of TV is certainly digital. I don't care about the content but if they can pull this off then it's a showcase to every one of the tens of thousands of QVC, MTV, BBC, CSPAN, Discovery Channel, networks that they don't need the big cable players to broadcast anymore.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outside of DoS'ing (which is admittedly Cloudflare's wheelhouse, but a rare concern if you aren't posting anything controversial or in a highly competitive space), you can host a site on a $5/month VPS and very trivially withstand being the top post on HN, making Reddit r/all, etc. Not even 10% CPU utilization at peak. And that's without even going to the extreme of making your site static.
Now do the same with video streaming ...
Fair point. That would definitely be a challenge.
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#150Never had any video begin playing as fast as those in this. Even faster than YouTube.
Combine:
* good peering all over the world
* vast resources in datacenters to host it
* minimum actual usage
* the fact that it is not one of petabytes of videos that have to be stored somewhere, but a smallish content that fits in memory