Surprised at all the negative comments here. Did no one else grow up with TechTV? The sheer mention of TechTV in the article got me really excited. I, for one, watch technical videos all the time but not for the purpose of explicitly learning something (as a lot of people here say the medium is an inefficient way to do so), but instead for entertainment. Certainly beats watching reality TV or whatever the hottest Netflix show is.
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#252I really can't wait for Silicon Valley Squares. https://cloudflare.tv/schedule/5OGa585usFPJqixCNnazhC
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I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare.
Well, we did have to build that in order to build this. So… possible we'll expose more of that in the future. One step at a time.
I think one of the interesting things that could come out of this is making it easier for universities (we're talking covid related problems) to stream/record their classes and make O(ish)CW a more accessible thing. Essentially each university has their own YouTube. Then the university could have more control over who has access to what. For example, you can only access lectures to classes you're enrolled in if the uni wants more control.
I think this is one of those problems where you never know how someone is going to use tools until you get your hands on them. I used to work for an engineering firm and when we bought our first 3D printer it was a toy. Then we started to realize that it could build tools that we needed on the fly and soon we had a dozen and they were always printing something. We didn't know how to use it until we had it.
Also, thanks for participating in this thread.
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The use of a11y-style acronyms fails for r9y reasons.
It sucks for onboarding new devs, but I've worked at companies where I did a11y audits for high-traffic e-commerce sites. The the amount of times I didn't have to type those extra 9 letters must have saved months of my life.
Maybe this is just because I learned to touch-type rather early, but (1) typing "accessibility" is far faster than typing "a11y", because it doesn't require reaching as far from the home row and (2) it is rare that the limiting factor is the speed at which keys can be pressed, rather than the speed at which correct and accurate words can be chosen.
Text is meant to be read, and not just written. I'll agree that there are chunking benefits in acronyms and abbreviations when working in a shared context, but outside of those shared contexts, the abbreviations severely impede communication.
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> Are youtube ads really unskippable No. I never see ads on Youtube on my own devices, and that barely requires any effort.
I had to jailbreak my iPhone in order to not see Youtube ads. That qualifies as some (small) effort.
I pay for youtube premium, or red, or whatever it was called, since I was grandfathered in by google music. No ads.
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#256I'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.
On the contrary, most of the emulation community looks down on YouTube videos as an out-of-date source of incorrect information contrary to best practices.
I think you'd be surprised at the wide availability of written information and guides for emulation.
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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.
On the contrary, most of the emulation community looks down on YouTube videos as an out-of-date source of incorrect information contrary to best practices. I think you'd be surprised at the wide availability of written information and guides for emulation.
To be clear, I should have specified this was _only_ the case with cemu which is much more experimental and likely to need more obscurity from Nintendo than others.
Other emulators, dolphin in particular, are fantastic in this regard.
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Why do you expect better docs from free projects? You could certainly try to be the change you want to see, but you'll find it is not easy to create comprehensive documentation for these projects, and then dedicate yourself to keeping them up to date.
That's fair actually. I should appreciate that these people are all doing this on their spare time. I had considered updating a GH repo with what I learned about the Switch Android install process but was quite exhausted after spending the full day finding and implementing the up to date YouTube guide. I'm sure that's the case for many people. There's also a much broader audience of people who want to do these jailbr…
The worst is when you do write up docs, there are links to the docs, but then people ask questions answered in the docs, and then fail to even really attempt to read the docs after you tell them it's in the docs.
Often people want a quick fix designed specifically for them, and do not want to read even a few pages of docs.
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That's fair actually. I should appreciate that these people are all doing this on their spare time. I had considered updating a GH repo with what I learned about the Switch Android install process but was quite exhausted after spending the full day finding and implementing the up to date YouTube guide. I'm sure that's the case for many people. There's also a much broader audience of people who want to do these jailbr…
The worst is when you do write up docs, there are links to the docs, but then people ask questions answered in the docs, and then fail to even really attempt to read the docs after you tell them it's in the docs. Often people want a quick fix designed specifically for them, and do not want to read even a few pages of docs.
Yeah there's definitely a lot of entitlement from people in open source/volunteer projects. I will just say that as programmers we're far better equipped to handle the frustration of errors and have the patience to solve problems on our own. These things do often get out of hand though as I've seen in many GitHub issues.
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#260Tuned in to watch the initial broadcast; unfortunately I'm having a lot of issues with it streaming. Good luck to the team responsible for getting it going!