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Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
by qznc 10y ago
Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
- wastedhours 10y ago100% agree - our data pres people swear by the two column table approach (one column has a few word headlines, second column has a bit more context) over bullets and helps people take in information a lot easier.
- AlexCoventry 10y agoWhat's the drawback to bullets?
- qznc 10y agoPeter Norvig illustrated that quite well: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
- AlexCoventry 10y agoThe objectives of the Gettysburg Address were entirely political and did not require the audience to keep track of detailed information with complex interactions. I was at a talk by Norvig recently. I can't remember whether his slides had bullet points, but there were definitely series of single-sentence, loosely related paragraphs. So he might have changed his mind, or you might have missed the point.