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The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
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#72Is this a paid advertisement or an organic article? Is there any way to tell with such things, in general?
I am wary of reading a "submarine" and not knowing it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
There's nothing wrong with paid content, if that's what it is, but there ought to be a way to distinguish paid from organic content. One thing I do like about traditional journalism is the attempt to separate "journalism" and "opinion", and the attempt to maintain high integrity in the former.
With everything moving online and into arbitrary structures, it's difficult to know what I'm reading. I don't want to suspect that everything I read is secretly a paid advertisement or involves some kind of kickback, but an article that's biased so strongly in favor of its subject and presents no alternative views, not even for the appearance of some degree of impartiality, reads like an article that was written around a predetermined conclusion. Which again is OK, but I want to know what type of content the page I'm reading alleges itself to be.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently that person made 5 million dollars last year: http://fusion.net/story/38924/the-highest-youtube-earner-of-...
That was fascinating--thanks for sharing. Really depressing as well when I consider I will never make that amount doing my day job :) What I'm racking my brain on is three things: 1. How are these videos getting around and who is the primary audience watching them? Is it really children? Or is it the ASMR crowd who are just sitting there entranced and racking up the video ad view count? 2. What sort of video ads are…
I know why you're asking those questions. We all want to earn millions from doing little work.
Without a doubt I think luck is involved for these to go viral initially. There's no magic formula. For every lucky multi-million viewer channel with this sort of content, there's a thousand others who aren't so lucky no matter how hard they try.
The perfect storm of internal and external mentions and sharing strikes the right balance, propelling a few lucky channels above the foam to the very top. Once there, all that's needed is to keep making those videos.
Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
#74https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeoplecode is a good resource too, and it's got over 10,000 subscribers.
Re: The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
#75If this sort of thing interests you (or even if you think it is totally ridiculous) you should definitely check out Handmade Hero[1], which is a livestream of a game's development. My own programming skills have improved from watching Handmade Hero as I've picked up some new techniques (and shed some bad habits as well). [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.
He is very familiar with the compilers too.
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#76A year or two ago, I watched notch stream coding for a weekend game competition, and it was fascinating. It was on the front page of HN for a while. I ended up watching it for a couple of hours while I did some low-cognition tasks. I think the appealing aspects for me were: * Seeing someone else's desktop and windowing habits * Watching for new keyboard shortcuts * Seeing workflows similar to mine in different IDEs a…
Here is a twitchtv of Notch coding Ludum Dare 28, a complete WebGL and Typescript engine and the final game - he made it seem easy - Notch is a great teacher. http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/487318324 http://game.notch.net/christmaschopping/
a complete WebGL and Typescript engine and the final game
This is Dart, not TypeScript, thanks for the link.
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#77How about watching designers? I'd like watch some great mobile or web designers working through their process.
Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPA0NaeTBk He starts designing around 6:30.
Thanks. The the design starts well before that. He gets on the computer at 6:30. I'd like to see more of the sketching and talking through it too.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.
He is very familiar with the compilers too.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.
He is very familiar with the compilers too.
Can you name the those compilers?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPA0NaeTBk He starts designing around 6:30.
Thanks. The the design starts well before that. He gets on the computer at 6:30. I'd like to see more of the sketching and talking through it too.
I'm sorry, you're right. He starts designing on his notepad, which is really important.
What I meant was that he started using the computer at 6:30, which is very interesting to watch, because he's very quick with illustrator.