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by petercooper
2090 days ago
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Ah, but I don't think video is intrinsically suboptimal (I assume suboptical was a typo?) any more than comparing a movie to a book. There are pros and cons of each medium and I can't dismiss either. I love a proper 90s-style book for sure (No Starch seem to be really good at still putting these out) but there are plenty of times where a video usefully fills in a gap, particularly if you want something super up to date or running on a certain setup (e.g. you're a Mac user and you want to see someone setting up some Python library.. that is definitely on YouTube to follow along with somewhere). |
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Your pro-video points seem to be largely "More up to date and more content is available"
So - maybe authoring/hosting/promoting/monetizing video is easier than with web pages? These are issues that could potentially be fixed and they have nothing to do with the intrinsic nature of video - linear, constant time usually with a spoken audio track. These are the qualities that I find problemmatic. I actually don't mind slides - they are linear but they aren't constant time and they work independently of the voiceover (most times there's a talk I'm interested in I'll find the slides and skip the actual talk - even if I miss some content it's worth it to be able to skim through quickly and not be tortured by someone's vocal quirks).
There's a few maths YouTubers I can bear - mainly because they speak extremely quickly and there's no fluff. I'd still prefer to be reading the same material however.