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No more lolcats in tech presentation, plz

6 points by bdotdub 18y ago

igorgue 18y ago
DHH likes to complain pretty much about everything! Now because of that in my next presentation I'll use LOLdogs. BTW, I love Federico Mena FAIL!s in his presentations.
- unalone 18y ago
  Oftentimes, the people complaining about everything are the people classy enough to recognize how many things are worth complaining about. Do you have a link to one of Mena's presentations?
  - igorgue 18y ago
    http://www.gnome.org/~federico/#conferences http://www.gnome.org/~federico/#conferences Document-centric GNOME is pretty good.
rufo 18y ago
I find this odd coming from someone who is known for highlighting profanity in presentations - which seems at least as much of a gimmick as a LOLcat. Not that I care - I enjoy Rails and generally find DHH a fine speaker when I've seen him at RailsConfs - but it does seem mildly hypocritical to me.
- unalone 18y ago
  Swears aren't a gimmick. They're a part of the English language. When DHH tells a hypothetical person to fuck off, that carries certain undertones. We're all aware of those because it's part of the English language. Same with him calling a product a piece of shit. If he said "This product is severely lacking," that means something difference than "This product is a piece of shit." I don't know where this taboo against professional swearing comes from, but curse words are a natural part of the English language and should be used as such. Meanwhile, using LOLcats says nothing good about you. "Hi, I'm immature enough that while you're supposed to regard what I'm saying, I still think that text attached to cats is funny." "Hello, I missed the meme bandwagon and I'm catching up three years later." I would respect somebody using "All Your Base" more than I'd respect LOLcats, and that's not saying I'd respect AYB at all.
sethg 18y ago
Mark-Jason Dominus proposed a different gimmick, long before LOLcats were invented: http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide024.html http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide024.htm...

6 points by bdotdub 18y ago

DHH likes to complain pretty much about everything! Now because of that in my next presentation I'll use LOLdogs. BTW, I love Federico Mena FAIL!s in his presentations.

unalone 18y ago
Oftentimes, the people complaining about everything are the people classy enough to recognize how many things are worth complaining about. Do you have a link to one of Mena's presentations?
- igorgue 18y ago
  http://www.gnome.org/~federico/#conferences http://www.gnome.org/~federico/#conferences Document-centric GNOME is pretty good.

rufo 18y ago

I find this odd coming from someone who is known for highlighting profanity in presentations - which seems at least as much of a gimmick as a LOLcat. Not that I care - I enjoy Rails and generally find DHH a fine speaker when I've seen him at RailsConfs - but it does seem mildly hypocritical to me.

unalone 18y ago
Swears aren't a gimmick. They're a part of the English language. When DHH tells a hypothetical person to fuck off, that carries certain undertones. We're all aware of those because it's part of the English language. Same with him calling a product a piece of shit. If he said "This product is severely lacking," that means something difference than "This product is a piece of shit." I don't know where this taboo against professional swearing comes from, but curse words are a natural part of the English language and should be used as such. Meanwhile, using LOLcats says nothing good about you. "Hi, I'm immature enough that while you're supposed to regard what I'm saying, I still think that text attached to cats is funny." "Hello, I missed the meme bandwagon and I'm catching up three years later." I would respect somebody using "All Your Base" more than I'd respect LOLcats, and that's not saying I'd respect AYB at all.

sethg 18y ago

Mark-Jason Dominus proposed a different gimmick, long before LOLcats were invented: http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide024.html http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/slide024.htm...