Andrei Alexandrescu
Romanian-American computer scientist, author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language, co-developer of the D language; researcher at NVIDIA.
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Their wordsI can't stress enough how important this is: when embarking on preparing and giving a public talk it's essential to be animated by mainly one desire - to share something that you believe is interesting.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsFortunately, there's a secret you may not know if you're a first-time speaker: stage fright does go away.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe actual talk should dispense only about 10% of what you know about the subject.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsFortunately confidence is one of those "fake it til you make it" traits.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsFirst off, make it an absolutely immutable rule that you finish on time.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsA talk is not a presentation - it is nothing short of a creative endeavor, and you should think of it that way.
↗Andrei's Tips on Giving Technical Talksweb.archive.org 6th of 6 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsLet's see why the D programming language is worth a serious look.
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Our reading
A programming language cannot satisfy everyone and must commit to a few fundamental principles.
Their wordsA language can't possibly fulfill everyone's needs and taste at the same time as many of them are contradictory, so it must carefully commit to a few fundamental coordinates that put it on the landscape of programming languages.
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Their wordsIn the process, the language's complexity has increased, which is in fact a good indicator because no language in actual use has ever gotten smaller. Even languages that started with the stated intent to be "small and beautiful" inevitably grew with use.
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Their wordsThis is no small news as Qt is a great (the best if you listen to the right people) library for developing portable GUI applications.