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Holy shit, do you think developers are the only people who deserve to consume information? Yes, he could have told the story in one paragraph. Would it be as e

Holy shit, do you think developers are the only people who deserve to consume information? Yes, he could have told the story in one paragraph. Would it be as entertaining? Debatable. Would it be as accessible to the non-tech crowd? Definitely not. I can send these tweets to my non-techie girlfriend, and she'll understand and enjoy them. Your paragraph wouldn't cut it. This smacks of the whole "A monad is just an endofunctor in the category of monoids, what's the problem?" joke, but instead of category theorists being condescending, it's just developers being condescending.

duxup 5y ago
>do you think developers are the only people who deserve to consume information? I think he just meant the overall narrative was hard to read, I think it was too. I don't know what 'non-tech crowd' has to do with it. They can read blogs and paragraphs and other formats too...
- kdmccormick 5y ago
  Sorry, maybe I rage-read-into GP's comment too much. I interpreted it as "this is a garbage format, here's a paragraph that would've sufficed". What I'm arguing is that adding pictures/memes/space/cadence to information can be helpful to readers who aren't familiar with the subject area. Twitter makes that easy, and also has a broad reach.
  - enumjorge 5y ago
    That bar for readability is extremely low though. 260 characters at a time with pictures in between is basically a children’s picture book. I don’t think the GP’s comment is being unreasonable.
smoe 5y ago
Not GP, but the point was that what he wrote should be an article/blog post instead of in a chain of tweets. It's not about the length or conciseness at all. That they also summarized it in one paragraph for the audience here on hn is separate from that point My opinion is, that the author, the one putting the work in decides the format and platform to use, but people are also free to dislike the format.
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duxup 5y ago

>do you think developers are the only people who deserve to consume information? I think he just meant the overall narrative was hard to read, I think it was too. I don't know what 'non-tech crowd' has to do with it. They can read blogs and paragraphs and other formats too...

kdmccormick 5y ago
Sorry, maybe I rage-read-into GP's comment too much. I interpreted it as "this is a garbage format, here's a paragraph that would've sufficed". What I'm arguing is that adding pictures/memes/space/cadence to information can be helpful to readers who aren't familiar with the subject area. Twitter makes that easy, and also has a broad reach.
- enumjorge 5y ago
  That bar for readability is extremely low though. 260 characters at a time with pictures in between is basically a children’s picture book. I don’t think the GP’s comment is being unreasonable.

smoe 5y ago

Not GP, but the point was that what he wrote should be an article/blog post instead of in a chain of tweets. It's not about the length or conciseness at all. That they also summarized it in one paragraph for the audience here on hn is separate from that point My opinion is, that the author, the one putting the work in decides the format and platform to use, but people are also free to dislike the format.

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