<story><title>Intercal: The Worst Programming Language Ever [video]</title><url>https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iand</author><text>And yet slides without text are useless after the event.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>On my case, I learned to create slides that only drive the presentation without much content.&lt;p&gt;Just some key points or diagrams that help to explain the presentation.&lt;p&gt;The moment the audience can read everything the presenter is about to tell, it is the end of the presentation.&lt;p&gt;As part of the audience, such presentations full with text are the ones where my brain switches off.</text></item><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>He uses slides very well.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s common knowledge that reading off your slides is generally bad and makes for terrible presentation, but he does better than just avoiding that. The slides are always something he can look at at the end of a point, like a &amp;#x27;turn&amp;#x27; of sorts. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s to demonstrate what he&amp;#x27;s talking about; sometimes it&amp;#x27;s comic effect to show what he &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; referring but not by name before; sometimes it&amp;#x27;s a segue to a new heading that fills the beat after the previous one.&lt;p&gt;Not that &amp;#x27;giving good presentations&amp;#x27; is so rare a skill that it needs to be called out, but, he&amp;#x27;s so consistently good about slide usage that I think his style is worth explicitly noting and copying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>This is why I often get annoyed when people post slide decks on HN. The presentation was often really good, and so the slides (being there only to supplement the presentation) make no sense out of context.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intercal: The Worst Programming Language Ever [video]</title><url>https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iand</author><text>And yet slides without text are useless after the event.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>On my case, I learned to create slides that only drive the presentation without much content.&lt;p&gt;Just some key points or diagrams that help to explain the presentation.&lt;p&gt;The moment the audience can read everything the presenter is about to tell, it is the end of the presentation.&lt;p&gt;As part of the audience, such presentations full with text are the ones where my brain switches off.</text></item><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>He uses slides very well.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s common knowledge that reading off your slides is generally bad and makes for terrible presentation, but he does better than just avoiding that. The slides are always something he can look at at the end of a point, like a &amp;#x27;turn&amp;#x27; of sorts. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s to demonstrate what he&amp;#x27;s talking about; sometimes it&amp;#x27;s comic effect to show what he &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; referring but not by name before; sometimes it&amp;#x27;s a segue to a new heading that fills the beat after the previous one.&lt;p&gt;Not that &amp;#x27;giving good presentations&amp;#x27; is so rare a skill that it needs to be called out, but, he&amp;#x27;s so consistently good about slide usage that I think his style is worth explicitly noting and copying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrabago</author><text>This is by design. Slides are supposed to be visual aids only. They are an accessory of the speaker, not vice versa.&lt;p&gt;When I prepare slides, I would use the notes field accompanying each slide for additional information that would be useful for someone reviewing the slides after the event.  That way, I can still distribute them and get use out of them after the event, without sacrificing their effectivity during the event.</text></comment>