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I have two unlikes for this story: 1. The promoting of Medium's homepage several times in the first sentences of this anvilicious story proved annoying to me.

I have two unlikes for this story: 1. The promoting of Medium's homepage several times in the first sentences of this anvilicious story proved annoying to me. I'd rather have a straightup explanation of why they used bloom filters for this application and context, without the condescending PR-sugar-coating which isn;t really a useful addition and only detracts from our information. 2. We could retitle this: 'Jamie Explains Technology to a Woman'. Come on, if you're going to add entropy to our data, don't make it reinforce yet another stereotype.

newscracker 10y ago
Talking about dislikes of the article, this was my second time skimming through it. The first time around, I just didn't get through it fully because even though it was just a "3 minute read" according to Medium, there was too much unrelated fluff that didn't keep me engaged in it. It seemed quite unfocused due to the writer's penchant for seemingly amusing or funny anecdotes. The second time I read it, I again skimmed through all the fluff looking for the pieces of value. This article could definitely have been written a lot better in a focused way and explained Bloom filters a lot better for the same "reading time". I'm going to search for something like that, which I'm guessing is already out there. I generally have a dislike for articles on Medium because many that I've seen look like lightweight pieces with very little value and too many words. The way images are displayed is also kind of disturbing to me. Articles either seem to have some gawdy, blurry, shaky, seizure-causing GIFs or blurry images that come into focus only after some scrolling. In my experience, Medium was good and different when it started, and seems to have become worse in quality and presentation over time. Maybe it's a temporary phase. Maybe it's not.

newscracker 10y ago

Talking about dislikes of the article, this was my second time skimming through it. The first time around, I just didn't get through it fully because even though it was just a "3 minute read" according to Medium, there was too much unrelated fluff that didn't keep me engaged in it. It seemed quite unfocused due to the writer's penchant for seemingly amusing or funny anecdotes. The second time I read it, I again skimmed through all the fluff looking for the pieces of value. This article could definitely have been written a lot better in a focused way and explained Bloom filters a lot better for the same "reading time". I'm going to search for something like that, which I'm guessing is already out there. I generally have a dislike for articles on Medium because many that I've seen look like lightweight pieces with very little value and too many words. The way images are displayed is also kind of disturbing to me. Articles either seem to have some gawdy, blurry, shaky, seizure-causing GIFs or blurry images that come into focus only after some scrolling. In my experience, Medium was good and different when it started, and seems to have become worse in quality and presentation over time. Maybe it's a temporary phase. Maybe it's not.