DomCode - September 2015
29 Sep 2015
at ZIMIHC Theater (Hosted by Yard Internet)
Talk comments
Talk was funny and had some LSD. Due to the broken nature of All The Things, my only question at the end was "When do we all commit suicide and set everything on fire?" But further, it's amazing how now almost everything running our lives is sitting atop a very broken and haphazard pile of crazy, mutated turtles. The End Is Near!
Slides needed some somewhat bigger text for readability (or I'm going blind... wait, actually I am so I could be wrong), but otherwise well done taking a complex topic and letting us know that it's complex without forcing us to wallow in it (so I will excuse the Doge this time :P ). Talk was presented clearly, without hesitation and while Everything Is Utterly Terrible, the speaker clearly enjoyed living and working on the topic.
I'm not really concerned with making a name for myself/creating a public profile, but since the tips generally followed esr's "how to write a question" it gets good marks from me :)
One quibble with #6: Often when I'm dealing with something new to me, when I get weird error messages, I will paste those into DDG and often running into them as the question (okay not "undefined is not an object" but similar ones sometimes) on SO is exactly what I'm looking for if there are answers: someone will say *why* that error appeared, whether it's a bug in the software or user error, and what if any workarounds or fixes there are.
Talk was well-paced, no stumbles, enthousiastic, and had some fun in the slides, very nice.
While needs more practice in flowing text (around the How? slide things broke down a little) but confident and knowledgeable and threw in Yahuda Katz' name to perk our ears up :)
The race condition example was nice, but I couldn't tell if it was written in Rust or Ruby-- I like to see at least a line or two of a language if it's being introduced to me.
In general an enjoyable lightning talk!
It's really smart to focus on just two metrics that look quite alike, given the short time. Well presented, with some humor. You know your metrics, the polymorphism question caught you off guard, but that's ok.
I shouldn't give you a high score, because you can't have nice things, but I had too much fun and learned a couple of things. Great talk! Informal, but that was perfect for this evening.
Sound advice, well presented. Maybe an open door here and there, but that's alright. Seemed well timed too, fitting well into the lightning talk slot.
Introducing an entire language in just a lightning talk is no small feat. I think you pulled it off, but only just. You seems to be a confident, comfortable speaker, but that can come off as somewhat sloppy or even unprepared. You radiated knowing your stuff. I think this talk has a lot of potential, but it needs some more work. I want to be made enthusiastic about a language, really, not as a joke.
Great dry delivery, just enough info for a lightning talk. Could have been great with a bit more examples
This talk easily introduced and explained (in both the technically-accurate and rule-of-thumb ways) what cyclomatic and n-path complexities are which then let us see how software that measures this could help us fund bottlenecks, bugs, and areas we should keep an eye on.
Slides were pretty good and clear, the example with the keyboard was great to add. Speaker spoke clearly and loud enough, yay for my failing senses!