[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Amit Aronovitch]

Gaal Yahas wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:31:59AM +0200, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
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>>>* Minimize typing. Unless you are Audrey you type slower than your
>>> audience thinks.
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>>  The "live demo" style of lecture has it's own merits.
>>It has a great psychological impact, and provides means to give
>>satisfying answers to unplanned questions from the audience (just
>>do it and see what happens) etc.
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>Sure, I didn't say "never type". You have to be aware of the control
>you either give up or gain over your audience by each action you take.
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>>   Speed and accuracy can be greatly improved by using tab-completion
>>and history features. Still, it's not the right format for every talk.
>>Choose wisely and practice beforehand.
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>If we get technical: history features can be hard for untrained audiences
>to follow. In some cases you may assume they can handle it, but not
>in others.
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Hmm - I guess that's probably true for shell history substitution (the !
"cuneiform")

I ment interactive history featues - e.g. ctrl-R searches in shells that
use readline
(such as bash and the python interpreter). With these, the listeners
just see your
prev commands popping into view at the prompt.