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Post by unixhero »

eastdakota wrote: post #9
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #6

at first i was very excited just hearing "cloudflare TV", but it doesn't look like this is what i was expecting. i don't really get the point of this. it's just another live conference broadcasting platform? why would people use this instead of just broadcasting on YouTube? Maybe i'm missing something but feels like just another marketing scheme that came from someone saying "hey this coronavirus is supposed to be th…

What were you expecting?

Congrats with the announcement!

I dont understand the negativity. Looking forward to seeing your channel and your format. Maybe it will work maybe not. Great initiative. I'm from the industry, and people I work with were excited about the news.

Responses here in this thread remind me of /r/linux culture. Strange, it's a HN I haven't seen.

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Post by godelski »

So I tuned in and it was hard to watch because during the Galileo presentation I was getting a lot of hiccups and sputtering. I had to stop watching because it was impossible to follow along. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

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Post by [deleted] »

trog wrote: post #56

I'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…

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Post by TeMPOraL »

blensor wrote: post #176
ShamelessC wrote: post #71

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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.

I think it has more to do with how close to the topic you are researching you already are. I had to fix the motor of my vacuum, for that I preferred a youtube tutorial because I want to see someone do the things I an about to do. If on the other hand I am trying to do something in Blender I usually prefer a text tutorial to get the exact bit of information I am looking for. Compare it to conventional teaching. You us…

Ironically (given how anti-video-tutorial I generally am), I've learned to appreciate Blender-related videos. Not for everything, but for the things in which the alternative would be a lot of screenshots glued together with a bit of text. Some things are really best seen being done directly.

I think it has to do with how much tacit information is embedded in your activity. Blender or vacuum motor repair videos? Yes please, because the problem domain is such that I actually need to see all the things that happen in the background of the main activity, just to reassure myself I'm on the right track. Coding? God no, typing text into computer is a very constrained activity and you gain nothing by showing it on video vs. just making an article.

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Post by rasz »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #103
trog wrote: post #56

I'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…

Text is important because it’s searchable - the fascination with zoom and video/audio communication makes documenting and finding knowledge so much harder. This is a problem for me at work, too.

Google automagically captions all YT clips, in addition it OCRs every bit of text in them just like it does to images. You will get those YT clips and images in results to text searches.

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Post by JacobAldridge »

stronglikedan wrote: post #227
JacobAldridge wrote: post #145

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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…

> That also provides a text transcript! As someone who's used the text transcripts to "search" through Youtube video content, I'd say you're on the right track.

Thanks for that.

Here’s an example of what I’ve done - as ‘simple’ as copying the text into my CMS (Wordpress) and then polishing as I read through it with some headings and graphics to make it more readable - https://jacobaldridge.com/dont-waste-a-good-recession/is-thi...

Still a 30 minute exercise, but that’s now a ~5,000 word article on the subject plus graphics plus a video.

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Post by Smaug123 »

lozf wrote: post #219
Smaug123 wrote: post #146

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I hadn't seen any of these before, and the first word I found for i18n was "iodochlorhydroxyquin". Seemed somewhat unlikely.

Wow, I'm amazed that any HN reader has not seen at least K8s for Kubernetes before... still, xkcd 10,000 strikes again.

I assumed "k8s" was so named by skipping out the syllables "ubern" and slightly mangling the rest.

Fortunately I work in the privileged position of never really needing to consider questions of deployment, and I am extremely happy to keep it that way.

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