Always Bet on Text (2014)
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Always Bet on Text (2014)
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Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#2> Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude. This blog post is likely to take perhaps 5000 bytes of storage, and could compress down to maybe 2000; by comparison the following 20-pixel-square image of the silhouette of a tweeting bird takes 4000 bytes:
Author is really excited about really old information technology. He makes some good points.
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#3> Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude. This blog post is likely to take perhaps 5000 bytes of storage, and could compress down to maybe 2000; by comparison the following 20-pixel-square image of the silhouette of a tweeting bird takes 4000 bytes: Author is really excited about really old information technology. He makes some good points.
The Latin script originated in the 7th century BC. Is that old? Maybe. But not so old compared to how long our species has existed.
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#4> Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude. This blog post is likely to take perhaps 5000 bytes of storage, and could compress down to maybe 2000; by comparison the following 20-pixel-square image of the silhouette of a tweeting bird takes 4000 bytes: Author is really excited about really old information technology. He makes some good points.
The Latin script originated in the 7th century BC. Is that old? Maybe. But not so old compared to how long our species has existed.
Writing itself is a little older, but not much. But writing is one of the first information technologies (that we have records of ;).
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#5Except nobody really reads text anymore.
If you want to deliver a powerful message pics and vids have the most bang for the byte.
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#6> Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude. This blog post is likely to take perhaps 5000 bytes of storage, and could compress down to maybe 2000; by comparison the following 20-pixel-square image of the silhouette of a tweeting bird takes 4000 bytes: Author is really excited about really old information technology. He makes some good points.
It's solid technology to be excited about.
For example. Graphical programming languages are nowhere. Closest I had was either VHDL or backed by copious amounts of XML like Xtend. And both of those have a textual Component as well.
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#7FYI: I collect bet on text goodies in the Awesome .TXT / Text page [1].
Yes, Text, Text, Text - The past, present and future of writing (and publishing).
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#8I would like to add that text, as a thousand-years-old-technology, has always included illustration too. Even in recent/digital text, you have this bird that doesn't take 4k bytes: [edit: unfortunately hackernews doesn't display the unicode character U+1F426]
Text is very powerful, but it doesn't need to always work by itself (arguably works best together with other media)
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#9Side note: the author is Graydon Hoare, creator of the Rust programming language.
Re: Always Bet on Text (2014)
#10Except nobody really reads text anymore. If you want to deliver a powerful message pics and vids have the most bang for the byte.
That's a really surprising sentiment to me.
I despise videos when I want to learn something. Give me a nice text (+ pictures if a subject requires it) so I can follow at my own pace: slow down, skip or skim as needed.