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Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by markessien »

davidw wrote: post #39
markessien wrote: post #36

The problem does not lie with video - the problem is that video today is very linear. Even people who think they prefer text do not actually do so - they just prefer being in control of the reading speed and being able to immediately jump to the information they want. Imagine video that behaved like a real person sitting opposite you. You type in google - "Where is Tibet", and a video immediately pops up with a perso…

So instead of a 17-byte string, you get some enormous video (not simply audio, but a video with pictures and everything) of someone telling you exactly the same thing that you could have read in a few seconds? I agree that things like searchable video have their place, but it is not for stuff like that!

Don't let bad implementations constrain your imagination!

Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by andylei »

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #15
andylei wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

most people probably would be illiterate without a mandatory government education

please don't upvote such ahistorical nonsense. Even the most casual examination of historical records reveals this to be false. In the early 1800s, Pierre Samuel Dupont, an influential French citizen who helped Thomas Jefferson negotiate for the Louisiana Purchase, came to America and surveyed education here. He found that most young Americans could read, write, and "cipher" (do arithmetic), and that Americans of all…

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy

The federal department of education was created in 1867. Strange how illiteracy decreased with the expansion of schools

Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by antiismist »

jimbokun wrote: post #49
antiismist wrote: post #6

I feel the same way about ESPN. I like reading interesting articles about sports but it is actually not that easy to find good content - there is no hacker news for sports (yet!).

I find Bill Simmons writing on sports excellent. He kind of disguises the quality of his writing with the references to crappy pop culture and the sophomoric behavior of him and his buddies. But in doing so I think he reveals a lot about who sports fans really are, not some idealized version. He often talks about whether or not he has wasted his life by devoting so much time and effort to following sports and making…

I used to be into Bill Simmons but lately not so much. I think once his wife (who knows nothing about football) beat him in NFL weekly predictions is when I made the switch from Simmons to Gregg Easterbrook.

Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by jimbokun »

brandnewlow wrote: post #50
jimbokun wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find Bill Simmons writing on sports excellent. He kind of disguises the quality of his writing with the references to crappy pop culture and the sophomoric behavior of him and his buddies. But in doing so I think he reveals a lot about who sports fans really are, not some idealized version. He often talks about whether or not he has wasted his life by devoting so much time and effort to following sports and making…

I've never been one for team sports, preferring running, swimming and the like. But I have read and will read anything written by Bill Simmons. The man is one of the great writers of our time. He's the Stephen King of sports writers, a guy who keeps pumping out solid, often great stuff that transcends his genre. I don't follow football, but I read Simmons' picks during the season. I don't follow basketball, but I rea…

Clicking through to the Karate Kid link, I re-read this:

"1. Randee Heller as Mrs. LaRusso, one of my favorite Hollywood Moms of the '80s (right up there with Mrs. Keaton and Mrs. Bueller). You know, in a five-year span, Randee played Gabe Kaplan's wife in "Fast Break," Ken Reeves' stripper girlfriend in "The White Shadow," and Daniel-San's Mom in "The Karate Kid," and then she was never seen again ... and I guess my point is this: You don't need to work anymore with a résumé like that."

Is there anyone else whose pop culture knowledge is more encylopedic than this guy? Who else has a list of favorite 80s Hollywood Moms and can rattle off their roles on queue? He probably double checked IMDB, but still...

Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by jodrellblank »

andrew1 wrote: post #32
patio11 wrote: post #25

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At the time he visited, public education was rare and voluntary. The first US law mandating attendance at school was introduced in 1852 by Massachusetts, sometime after the reported 90%+ literacy rates were achieved. (I have significant skepticism that it was actually 99.96%, but 90% sufficient to read and write at what we'd consider a grade school level these days, sure.)

996 out of a thousand would be 99.6%, but I agree with your suspicions.

"would be"? You mean it isn't?

(I've been reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486574 )

Re: My Web is Text Based

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

andylei wrote: post #52
nazgulnarsil wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

please don't upvote such ahistorical nonsense. Even the most casual examination of historical records reveals this to be false. In the early 1800s, Pierre Samuel Dupont, an influential French citizen who helped Thomas Jefferson negotiate for the Louisiana Purchase, came to America and surveyed education here. He found that most young Americans could read, write, and "cipher" (do arithmetic), and that Americans of all…

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy The federal department of education was created in 1867. Strange how illiteracy decreased with the expansion of schools

you trust statistics from a .gov site on the efficacy of government programs?
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