Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging
by rchaud on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:42PM
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Imagine that you're searching for a solution to a Javascript issue, and you see two search results. One has the answer and links to a working Codepen, and the other provides some conceptual information and links you to MDN documentation so you can figure the answer out for yourself.
Which one are you going to read first? If you picked the first one, does that indicate a dilapidation in reading ability, or that you needed an answer, and the first option provided the best one?
Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging
by CM30 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:42PM
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Honestly, if you've written a coding article which doesn't have any code in it, you've probably messed up somewhere along the line. Generally, I'd say it's expected that anything programming related likely has at least a few code samples and a few demos to test out, otherwise its usefulness is rather limited.
Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging
by robocat on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:39PM
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> dilapidation of reading culture
Surely we read more than we ever did? Surely more people a literate than ever before?
Certainly we didn't read much television...
My friends that are dyslexic or illiterate have learnt to read in their 30s and 40s because of the internet.
If there's more and more pressure to say less, eventually you'll say nothing. If you say everything, nobody will read it unless they have eyes set on your work.
Most people seem to be trained to write an expository piece in a classical model of assert a premise => provide an argument => yield a conclusion. They're not used to putting the conclusion where the premise should be sort of like an abstract.