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Why the meaningless "+" in "+4k" etc., instead of the ">4k" that makes sense? Or "4k+". It's interesting that number 1 has more than 5 times the views of numb
by mkl 3y ago
Why the meaningless "+" in "+4k" etc., instead of the ">4k" that makes sense? Or "4k+".
It's interesting that number 1 has more than 5 times the views of number 2; must have been linked somewhere popular. Also interesting that at least two of the top 10 are about Rust or Rust libraries.
There are a lot more PyCons than just US and AU, too, some of which will have talks with a lot of views: https://pycon.org/#national-conferences https://pycon.org/#national-conferences
- itsoktocry 3y ago>It's interesting that number 1 has more than 5 times the views of number 2; must have been linked somewhere popular. Is their a virtuous cycle in searching "pycon" in YouTube?
- Dr-NULL 3y agoThe first video is actually very informative. Apart from that I am damn sure it is popular because of the YouTube thumbnail.
- Takennickname 3y agoYou can say it. The boobs in the thumbnail are definitely click bait (inb4 someone thinks I'm saying something about the lady's intentions, just click bait in terms of baiting clicks), and the stats are there to back it up. Unless someone has another reason why it has as much views as the next 7 videos combined.
- diggan 3y ago> Unless someone has another reason why it has as much views as the next 7 videos combined. WebAssembly is more interesting/hyped to the general programming population than Python? Probably a lot of JavaScript/frontend people have at least a passing interest in WebAssembly, while maybe not caring so much about Python.
- NooneAtAll3 3y agoI love how that very same page has correct "most watched talks across 100+ software engineering conferences" to compare to --- In case someone doesn't understand the normal convention: "+X" is "additional X", while "X+" means "more than X". And lately people keep misusing them
- diggan 3y ago> In case someone doesn't understand the normal convention: "+X" is "additional X", while "X+" means "more than X". And lately people keep misusing them Tad embarrassing perhaps, but I'm 30+ years old, been programming since I was ~15 and I've never heard about this convention before. Maybe it's a locale thing, or is it universal? Edit: Not sure why my question is being downvoted? Here is a example sign from Spain: https://imgur.com/a/YTODbtD https://imgur.com/a/YTODbtD It says "2+" even though the meaning they're trying to get across is "2 or more", which means they're not following that convention of "X+" meaning "more than X" So at least there is one agency, in one country, who also haven't heard about this convention. Hence my question, as it doesn't seem, from my perspective, to be universal.
- pinusc 3y agoI believe you're being downvoted because you missed the point of the comment you're replying to, which is not (necessarily) trying to imply the convention is that X+ means exactly "more than X" (i.e. >X). You're right that "X or more" (>= X) is an acceptable interpretation. This is not what the comment is nitpicking. The page we're discussing lists PyCon talks next to the number of viewers. It writes "X or more viewers" as +X; this does not follow any variant of this "convention". It's as if you wrote that you are +30 years old, instead of 30+. The problem is the placement of the +. That's just weird/incorrect.
- pinusc 3y agoUpdate: it seem they fixed the page so that it reads "X+ views" instead of "+X views". Maybe they read this hackernews comment chain!
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