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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by latexr »

cowsaymoo wrote: post #87
isoprophlex wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines:

> What to Submit

> (…)

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well?

Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by bossyTeacher »

Arch485 wrote: post #120
bossyTeacher wrote: post #109

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> darn adults these days won't teach their kids how to use the computer! I would bet most of the greyhaired people on here as well as those who were born at the time of the personal computer revolution didn't have parents who were proficient in a technology that was literally just made available to consumers yet those kids learn to use a computer on their own at a time where there was no internet available to check.…

It ain't that deep. Back then, you had to understand the lower level concepts in order to use the computer... Nowadays, you don't. It's that simple.

Still an abstraction if you don't understand how each of the parts of the computer work. And that level of detail goes all the way down to the actual implementation of the logic gates. One who could also include how your monitor display work and the keyboard.

Lower is not lowest.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by bossyTeacher »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #35
isoprophlex wrote: post #3

Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…

Abstractions will start coming and they don't stop coming. People in the late 90s/early 2000s probably complained about people like me who learned about HTML but only had a shallow understanding of how laying out a GUI and text rendering works. Which why would we, when we could just glue some HTML together to make a Chrono Trigger fan site?

Exactly. I said a variation of this and some user flagged my comment.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by bossyTeacher »

memen wrote: post #105
kijin wrote: post #82

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Abstractions are fine. Everything we do is a dozen layers of abstraction on top of the metal anyway. It just happens that people who know how the bits actually move underneath the abstractions tend to be better at solving problems related to those abstractions, than those who don't.

There are problems where understanding one level below the abstractions indeed leads to better solutions. However, I would argue that for a large set of problems, this is not the case. I think being aware of the abstraction (at multiple levels) would lead you to choose the right abstraction level for solving the problem. Of course, apart from school assignments, these abstraction levels are never given with a certain…

To be honest, being able to think about things in multiple levels of abstraction is an advantage no matter what level you are (writing assembly or writing react)

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by yieldcrv »

jen729w wrote: post #113
yieldcrv wrote: post #68

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You’d be surprised! With many apps on the iPhone you can get by Edit a video? Built in app, or your social media app is already loaded with that and you can save state instead of posting Reverse a video? There’s an app for that which just goes back into your Photos app to let you tried that content and so on people dont need to have that mental model until something breaks

Right, but those videos are amateur and get 200 views on TikTok. You want to produce a video of any quality at all? You're using files.

source quality and editing prowess doesnt matters at all for views

and you can edit in high quality on an iphone, higher than what’s necessary to view on an iphone

so, two premises that arent substantiated

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by jen729w »

yieldcrv wrote: post #125
jen729w wrote: post #113

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Right, but those videos are amateur and get 200 views on TikTok. You want to produce a video of any quality at all? You're using files.

source quality and editing prowess doesnt matters at all for views and you can edit in high quality on an iphone, higher than what’s necessary to view on an iphone so, two premises that arent substantiated

Show me a million-view TikToker that does it unedited with no files.

They might exist. I don’t watch TT, I’m happy to be wrong.

But MKBHD, Justine, Mr. Beast, CGP Grey — you name ‘em, they use files to edit a production.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by latexr »

isoprophlex wrote: post #33
dchest wrote: post #26

Width and height must be specified without units (although looks like browsers accept it, probably by ignoring the unit). IMG tags are self-closing, so you can omit The dog picture has wrong aspect ratio. The dog is squeezed! It should be 620 × 349 or, if 500 width or 400 height is needed, there's a good mathematical task to calculate the size of the other side. No need for / in HTML. unicorn.html unicorncopy.html Pa…

Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

Don’t 7 year olds deserve to learn how to improve too? The comment doesn’t appear to be done aggressively or in bad faith, so what’s the issue? Presumably it will be the parent who’ll read the comment, and they can pass it on or not depending on what they think the kid would prefer and/or would let them grow.

Ironically, I find the most HN comments of all to be the ones who complain about something being too HN.

Which is not to say your comment wasn’t humorous, but let’s not be too quick to cast stones.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by aitchnyu »

tintedfireglass wrote: post #126

Oh my god I did almost the same thing when I was 9, I think I lost the website though. I took excerpts from an encyclopedia on animals and made small blog style pages very similar to this . It was so fun!

I was 10 or 11 and I was typing a pocket dictionary to become first online dictionary. Guess I got as far as "abdicate". If I had succeeded, I would have used a free website generator which we call static hosts today.
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