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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by ClawsOnPaws on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:35PM (#24984815)
Yes, but then you only have the video's audio but miss out on the actual code being written, meaning you lose a lot of context.
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by tomatohs on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:41PM (#24984876)
It also records the code being written.
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by Retr0spectrum on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:55PM (#24985382)
If the text-only experience is good enough, then why bother with encoding and storing a video?
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by apazzolini on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:19PM (#24985546)
Books are pretty good, why bother with movies?
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by yladiz on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:30AM (#24986802)
Although I agree with you, this comment is missing the mark. Books and films are two fundamentally different mediums and have two different audiences, while this is more about supplementing the text version of something with audio/video.

I think that an audio (or video) version would be superior, but more because, assuming there are captions, the audio might be able to describe something beyond the code alone more easily than typing out a note would.

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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by eru on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:05AM (#24988009)
It takes lots and lots of effort to turns books into movies and vice versa.

You don't just take a transcript of the dialogue in the movie to make a book.

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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by loa_in_ on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:50PM (#24985715)
It claims you can git checkout code from any point of the lecture/cast
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by tomatohs on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:56PM (#24985744)
The git commit hash is included at the top of every diff in the transcript. You can `git checkout [the hash]` to get the code at that point.
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Re:Document your code just by hitting “record” by codetrotter on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:20PM (#24986268)
Ok, that’s actually awesome!
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