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<< META COMMENT >> I'm always surprised when someone's raw slide decks, for an interesting presentation make it to the front page of HN. I get so little from
by mikeryan 15y ago
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I'm always surprised when someone's raw slide decks, for an interesting presentation make it to the front page of HN. I get so little from just an 85 slide deck, especially decks with a slide like
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- forgotAgain 15y agoWhat works as a nice intro with audio doesn't always work standalone. The first dozen slide don't match the title. Live, it can be a way to warm up a crowd but with just the deck it's a drag.
- rbranson 15y agoYup. Slides are best used as an illustrative tool.
- checker 15y agoI got a lot out of your slides. Sometimes it can be difficult to discern the point of the slide without audio, but I felt that your slides communicated the point pretty well. Thanks for sharing!
- slyall 15y agoI read a lot of slide decks. I go to very few conferences (live in NZ) and videos of talks are often not available or of poor quality (camera stays on presenter or slides obscured). Also I can go through a slide deck in a few minutes while a 1 hour presentation takes an hour to view the whole thing and a significant amount of time for me to decide if it is uninteresting. Obviously you don't get much out of presetations that are just 20 flickr photos and 10 words but for decks like this you can learn a bit. Since many presentations are "read" by more people than "watched" I'd hope that authors will pay more attention into improving the readability of their presentations (perhaps by releasing more wordy versions).