On 7/16/11 12:19 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Vladimir Panteleev"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:16:35 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
A reader pointed me to this post on a Russian site:
http://designsfor.ru/2011/07/16/three-cool-things-about-d-the-case-for-the-d-programing-language/
The "article" (in reality, video description without formatting) and the
comments are scrapped from YouTube. I don't think anything on that page is
original.
That certainly explains the insightful, properly-capitalized comments like:
"can't stand this guys accent."
Web 2.0: Dumbing down society one idiot at a time.
I think that's actually good feedback. People usually don't mention that
because they consider it politically incorrect. I've considered taking
some enunciation classes but a speech pathologist I talked to said
there's not a lot to improve at this point.
One more actionable piece of feedback is this:
this is an interesting presentation, but this guy might be the most
annoying presenter ever– why is he compelled to ask everything as a
question before making a statement? «foo is bar. what does bar mean?»
pause for five seconds. somebody gives half-correct answer. presenter
gives correct definition. repeat.
I've had this intuition for a while - asking questions works better live
than in a recording because there's much less incentive to think of an
answer for the offline viewer so those times are just dead. I think I'll
ask fewer questions during recorded talks.
Andrei
