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Despite that the video starts with "The title of this video won't be exactly right. [..] If it's actually a 100% spot on it's a miracle" the title was exactly right when I saw it the first time. I even screenshotted it. I also wondered if it would work on HN. Is there a limit on the number of times you can edit a title on HN? Obviously there isn't on Youtube, which I find quite surprising.
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Same here. However I think that the way he is communicating information in this video is meant to capture your attention not just now, but when this video is visited months or years from now. It will be very cool for viewers to stumble across this video when it doesn't work, effectively proving his point.
My guess is it's more likely some YouTube employees hacked around this as a show of "support" for YouTubers?
I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it
All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.
I know, far out there and in theory, I agree with you, everything is temporary and nothing is forever. But who knows, maybe in the future, things will no longer be ephemeral.
I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it
All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.
I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…
Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open source + offers a hosted version with paid plans?
This would be noteworthy if the counter was included in the video (like the similar video that shows its own URL [0]). But as it is, it's just the title that changes to match the number of views, so... not much to see here. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452013
I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it
All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.
I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it
Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them.
Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?
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Yeah unfortunately Youtube doesn't let you edit videos, which sucks for creators who want to fix minor mistakes after a video has gone viral. You can, however, add and edit "cards" on top of the video. On another note, it would be noteworthy if the title on Hacker News also included the counter.
Uh, why the downvote? Can HN institute a policy that a reply is required if you downvote?