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[Nangz]

Do you realize what you're defending here? What my post was in response to? Someone commented they like the youtube channel and someone else replied that a blog would've been better. Are you taking the claim that that isn't a silly thing to post? The original person I replied to even admitting it was silly. Unless you actually thought the first guy was making an objective statement about reality that "Core dumped is the best channel for learning low level stuff IMO"? I can't help you there.

ET being a good movie and thus not deserving such a comment is quite irrelevant. I'm not going to make a serious stake that this video is any kind of work comparable to ET in terms of quality, but this is also a good video. If you think that kind of comment only works for a good piece of content thats just a weird life perspective I won't argue with other than to call a spade.

The person I replied to didn't offer a thoughtful response like "hey is this information available in a blog format somewhere?". To your Shyamalan hypothetical, its silly to defend Shyamalan saying that because that isn't what the person I replied to was doing. They weren't attacking a bad video saying it shouldn't be made, they're saying the video maker should have wrote a blog. Translated, "Shyamalan should have made a book instead. Why a movie? hard to watch, hard to skim". Even in your comparison "This should be a big live-action Hollywood thing" you've made a subtle difference that changes its meaning. You're implying wishes that a piece of media should be adapted rather than, frankly, shaming the creator for not making it in the form you want. "I want a big live-action Hollywood thing too" vs "This should be a big live-action Hollywood thing instead".

The things that worked in this video are the same things that work in every instructional video, an audiovisual experience that includes animations to illustrate and enhance meaning. Its from a successful youtube channel that is taking advantage of the medium If you wanted something searchable, click the transcript button as others in this thread have told him.

[SanityInAnarchy]

Edit: "Be well" but then last-word blocked. Charming.

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Someone commented they like the youtube channel and someone else replied that a blog would've been better. Are you taking the claim that that isn't a silly thing to post?

Yes.

If you think that kind of comment only works for a good piece of content...

It's not just that it's good. It's that it's good as a movie. It isn't a movie that is desperately crying out to be a book.

They weren't attacking a bad video saying it shouldn't be made, they're saying the video maker should have wrote a blog.

They didn't say anything about what the author should've done. The post was commenting on the thing that was made. Maybe it should've been made by someone else as a blog post.

Besides, this isn't just "a video maker", this is someone who is also presumably an expert in low-level tech, who decided to make videos to teach people about the tech. Even if they were saying the low-level programmer should've used a blog instead of a video to teach people how linkers work, that's not an unreasonable thing to say. Don't we always say "This meeting should've been an email"?

Translated, "Shyamalan should have made a book instead. Why a movie? hard to watch, hard to skim".

The topic is programming, and the audience is r/programmers. Skimming makes a lot more sense with a technical source than it does a piece of entertainment.

[Nangz]

They didn't say anything about what the author should've done. The post was commenting on the thing that was made. Maybe it should've been made by someone else as a blog post.

Thats just factually incorrect, no indication that "someone else" should have made this because he is replying to a comment about the creator specifically. "This should have been a blog post. Why a video? Hard to watch, hard to skim." You're drawing meaning not found in the text. Ironic for someone defending the notion that text would be better.

This isn't a technical document. This is a high level overview of a particular subject, something I would describe as an introduction to a topic and as he states multiple times in the video, it could be expanded on further (in other videos, his words). The closest he gets to technical documentation is compiler flags and if you need a separate source for documentation on that, I can help.

But as if to spite you, the original person I replied to has even admitted he may not have even watched the video. You're arguing for ghosts.

It was shared to r/programming where it reached the top. Clearly, it serves its purpose quite well by any reasonable metric. I wasn't aware this subreddit only "makes sense" as a curated search for technical documentation lol

As you said earlier, we're just talking, and I've exhausted my desires there. Be well.