their "merch store" https://merch.krazam.tv/ is losing out on a lot of potential revenue by not even making a reference to their most viral videos. Who wouldn't want to rock a Galactus shirt.
Open the terminal and enter "yahoo_cd" for a 3 part scavenger hunt for 15% off in the store! Might need to pick myself up a BALLMERCON 2019" shirt. Maybe one day Makro will be redeemed.
I often think about their Senior Engineer video before interviews. I simultaneously aspire to match that character's ancient wisdom and am terrified that I might accidentally resemble him personally.
Agreed. I think this is one of the formats which would admittedly do better as a 30s reel than a 2-3min video. The gags about a junior JS developer or a grisly old C++ master are super funny, but there’s only so much material there.
The stereotype premise is funny but the jokes don't land very often. The jump cuts where he repeats words are also not jokes at all.
The recent video about the T3 stack just lists off names of libraries that we're all forced to use. I get that it's relatable but there's a difference between funny and relatable.
I haven't watched much because the laugh track and general cheesiness turned me off.. but I thought it was just jokes about him being a "nerd" in the ways mainstream people think of nerds..
I'm convinced the big bang theory is intended for older audiences that see their grand children or children in the main characters; they relate to watching smart young people who can do things they don't understand learn to handle basic social conflict; and the trouble is never serious and is typically resolved nicely within 30 minutes so you know everyone will be OK.
> "jokes about him being a 'nerd' in the ways mainstream people think of nerds"
"Big Bang Theory" was initially written that way, but the original pilot episode was a famous flop. Test audiences hated the characters. (The unaired pilot can be found with a Google search.)
Even though the pilot failed, the studio liked the concept enough that the showrunners were given the rare opportunity to reshoot the pilot with a new script. They introduced the character of Penny and balanced the scenes carefully around emotional connection, to make it clear to audiences when the characters are connecting or failing to connect. And that's probably closer to why millions of people love the show — it's not the tech jokes or laughing at nerds but the empathy.
But the point about BBT is that it isn’t really a show about nerds or physics; it’s about emotional intelligence. This was a fairly groundbreaking angle for a Hollywood sitcom at the time when comparable mainstream shows were built on rather mean-spirited writing and stunted character development, like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men.”
Are you ignoring the whole era of ABC TGIF and family sitcoms?
Seinfeld was invented as an antithesis to that whole genre. "No hugging, no learning".
Maybe they were so successful that they obsoleted what they were rebelling against.
Somehow, unrelated.. With the rise of such cool OS projects like Puter[1], DaedalOS [2] et al. [3], with Krazam being one of them, I can't help but dream of the day when the .os TLD for operating systems is introduced. I believe it would make more sense to use/read krazam.os rather than krazam.tv.
About a year ago, new TLDs were introduced [4], with .zip and .mov being the most popular. However, the .os TLD wasn't on the list, which was disappointing for me!
I'm uncertain about the criteria that determine whether a TLD is a good candidate, and I may be the only one emotionally attached to the idea of a .os TLD. Nevertheless, the introduction of the .zip TLD faced numerous complaints[5],[6], particularly regarding security concerns.
Afaik all 2-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, which means they must be a country code of some country and are managed by it. There's no country with "os" yet, so to make the TLD available one would need to found a new country first!
i feel like their humor would drop if they lost touch with their real jobs. but also they prob need to do a lot of work to reassure their coworkers that specific parodies of them are off limits or something
He left Amazon a few months ago to do a job where he could spend more time focusing on Krazam! Check out the Patreon! They are both getting super serious and are hopefully going to put out more great content soon!
IMO it was super good for a first shot! They way over did the software that they used to present the show, but I was super impressed with the polish! I have a feeling they will grow to be much better after some practice!
Krazam really captures the feeling of working for a mid-sized startup in SF perfectly. The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.
Weird, twice now it has locked up Firefox when I try to open it.
Maybe it's somehow trying to access my clipboard, and that's triggering a separate problem I've been having when RDP'ing to a certain Linux machine in another window...
The class name on the HTML element definitely makes me want to start using more expressive class names in my code. (Doesn't seem I'm able to copy/paste it into a Hacker News comment)
Because it's funny and nostalgic. Seriously, who doesn't love those two guys and their videos (I wanted to write "parodies", but damn, some of those really hit hard).
I saw a similar design theme on Dan Brown's personal site recently and was wondering if it was one of those trends to feed off nostalgia or just a coincidence
https://danb.me/
can we crowdsource merch ideas for these guys pls
- "I have delivered value... But at what cost?", being the title of the video
- "Have the KPIs of my own life failed to grow quarter over quarter?"
It's been replaced by Omnious all knowing all seeing user provider, made by famous xz contributor NotCIA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg
Often when I have a Zoom meeting I zone out and this skit plays in my head instead.
A reference to their video IETF Celebrates The Standards [LIVE at Demuxed '22]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkAMDeo_NM
https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909
The recent video about the T3 stack just lists off names of libraries that we're all forced to use. I get that it's relatable but there's a difference between funny and relatable.
Hard disagree, those are the most hilarious parts to me. Best example of this is the ffmpeg video.
If not, yeah.
"You were born to deploy Kubernetes clusters."
I watch KRAZAM and I get into a deep existential crisis. I love them.
I haven't watched much because the laugh track and general cheesiness turned me off.. but I thought it was just jokes about him being a "nerd" in the ways mainstream people think of nerds..
"Big Bang Theory" was initially written that way, but the original pilot episode was a famous flop. Test audiences hated the characters. (The unaired pilot can be found with a Google search.)
Even though the pilot failed, the studio liked the concept enough that the showrunners were given the rare opportunity to reshoot the pilot with a new script. They introduced the character of Penny and balanced the scenes carefully around emotional connection, to make it clear to audiences when the characters are connecting or failing to connect. And that's probably closer to why millions of people love the show — it's not the tech jokes or laughing at nerds but the empathy.
But the point about BBT is that it isn’t really a show about nerds or physics; it’s about emotional intelligence. This was a fairly groundbreaking angle for a Hollywood sitcom at the time when comparable mainstream shows were built on rather mean-spirited writing and stunted character development, like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men.”
Seinfeld was invented as an antithesis to that whole genre. "No hugging, no learning". Maybe they were so successful that they obsoleted what they were rebelling against.
About a year ago, new TLDs were introduced [4], with .zip and .mov being the most popular. However, the .os TLD wasn't on the list, which was disappointing for me!
I'm uncertain about the criteria that determine whether a TLD is a good candidate, and I may be the only one emotionally attached to the idea of a .os TLD. Nevertheless, the introduction of the .zip TLD faced numerous complaints[5],[6], particularly regarding security concerns.
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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753
3. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
4. https://fieldeffect.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-the-...
5. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-zip-domai...
6. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/zip-domains
"Your feedback is actionable and important"
"There will never be another outage again"
"Your tests are reliable and have appropriate coverage"
#DiscreetMath
This guy is an icon.
https://www.patreon.com/KRAZAM
DEVOPS is a meaningful term.
YOU WERE BORN TO DEPLOY KUBERNETES CLUSTERS!
Cue music from the lion King ...
Can you feel the irony tonight... It's so obvious..
Huge meta corps writing a spurious OS..
What a hideous mess...
1. Krazam OS (krazam.tv) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126751
2. Meta Horizon OS (meta.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554
Both posts feature OS but with rather different look and feel.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/Etesam913/xp-newtab/
Here is a nice Easter egg that I found:
Open the terminal. Type help. Then type yahoo_cd
This guy should have a Comedy Central show by now.Doubly funny when it first came out because IIRC Slackware ha just released a new version
The "read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in bed on my Nook - didn't understand shit!" comes back to me almost weekly reading HN comments sometimes.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
Also at FAANG and FAANG wannabes. The absurd obsession over BS and pedantic conflicts is just yucky.
Thank you for showing me a new word today!
They're hilarious, I think only matched by Austin Nasso who does a tech roast show: https://youtube.com/@austinnasso/videos
Maybe it's somehow trying to access my clipboard, and that's triggering a separate problem I've been having when RDP'ing to a certain Linux machine in another window...
Now I want to see a video from them that references or is about Hacker News.
LOL