Always Bet on Text (2014)
Apples and oranges. The post states that the used Twitter logo PNG is 4000 bytes, while it&#x27;s only 723. Try to express that logo in text, English language and in all its details with 723 characters, so you are able to reproduce a pixel perfect representation. Not even possible with 4000 characters anyway. Don&#x27;t bother. Text will be ambiguous, unless you describe every single detail. If the target is to communicate &quot;Twitter logo&quot; then sure, just write that. But if you compare 723 bytes of &quot;data&quot; with just a few specific information pieces contained within that data ... sure, text might be better.<p>&gt; text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.<p>Nothing of this is actually true, period.<p>&gt; I do not post to this blog with the intention of entertaining Hacker News Debate Club and I frequently disable comments or friend-lock posts in order to avoid this sort of nonsense. I&#x27;m not interested in further discussion.<p>Ah yes, the true seal of quality. (sarcasm)