This!
It's one of the most important thing to remember – people paid money and came to listen here, and you've been invited as a speaker, so that means that you have something important to tell, and people really want you to succeed.
I also recommend a fantastic book on the topic by head of TED conferences, Chris Anderson - "The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking". It helped me immensely when I was preparing to my first big public speaking event.
Agreed! As I wrote to a comment elsewhere on this page: "Most of the time, they selected your talk based on their interest in the contents (and less so on your delivery), and so they want to learn a thing or two. They will be graceful towards your presentation (style, delivery, slides) if at the end they got what they came for: you sharing data, knowledge, insights or wisdom. You don't want [to make] that too difficult for them, so you should work hard on improving your presentation delivery, but sharing knowledge is appreciated over sharing jokes or just well-designed slides."
So far none of my kids have really cared about coding at all. We’ve got python books, js books, ruby books, scratch, Lego Mindstorms, arduinos... they aren’t interested. Definitely wouldn’t pick it up unless prompted.
We home educate, so they have access and time to explore.
Nope.
Our oldest picked it up after a 6 month stint making sandwiches when they were 17.
“Dad, can I still learn to code?”
I miss the days when “tell turtle forward 50” was amazing.
I and my wife discuss programming matters in front of our kids.
And my kids listen to the discussions and want to be part of it.
Then I start teaching the basics, they are a bit more willing to hear.
Here the incentive for them is to be part of the club where interesting things are happening.
We laugh at coding jokes which kids don't appear to understand which leaves them confused.
So, it seems they are aware they lack some understanding because of which they are unable to understand us.
The same idea has worked for math, playing musical instruments like keyboard/ukelele, physical exercises like skipping ropes or air pushups.
If I simply give them a computer or ukelele, they won't be interested as they don't know how to hold a ukulele or have no one to tell them how to hold it right and how to fuse a chord progression with the strumming pattern. These things are not obvious by just watching or hits and trials on a guitar/ukelele.
my first [uninformed] thought is that there is no external reason why they would want to
for me its typically to build a tool, or get paid + subsidize my own ventures from getting paid. my own ventures are run much cheaper because I don't need to pay a developer.
after hitting the glass ceiling doing dev work for other people, one of those coding reasons became obsolete, simultaneously this means the cost of having other devs run my software ventures is also much more practical. having devs onboarded means I can also throw random unrelated tasks at them to build the tool I imagined. I may not have any reason to want to code anymore
A kid raised at this socioeconomic level may not see a reason why they need to.
I also was never interested in coding before real world problems arose. Academic stuff, and book lessons never stuck for me.
You may want to look into Minecraft and some of the automation modifications. I know older versions of Minecraft you can get have mods like ComputerCraft that let you program a Turtle to mine for you :)
That is only "modern" in an artistic sense. All of those designs look like the 1960s. Im sure it sells to those looking to emulate past stylez, but not to young people looking for fresh ideas.
Any modern large format printing company can print whatever you want onto a wallpaper substrate. Off the top of my head I can't think of a vendor to use as an example of existing designs, but if you want something interesting to cover your walls it's pretty easy to get done these days :)
Remember that the companies producing them use rolls in a printing press. This also allows for 3-d effects by applying e.g. resin with a deep-cut negative on the roll. The substrates lending themselves to this use are also probably different between direct digital printing and use of such a steel roll.
So a lot of offset printers will be like that, however if you can find a company that operates a flatbed such as a SwissQ, you can actually print 3d effects with layers of resin. While it's still a roll-to-roll process, because it's dragged across a large flat table while printing they can do some interesting things.
I dont disagree, React has some solid underpinnings but for now VUE has some momentum, till the next one comes along. Google gave up on the idea long back. Google develops Angular but doesnt use it in any of their core products. They themselves use Google Closure library for gmail or word processor.
Isn't the new YouTube website running Angular? Please don't shoot me if I'm wrong, I don't have any citations, I just presumed (on phone, too lazy to look up).
Not according to Augery (angular chrome extension), but not sure if all evidence can be built out of the result.
However, mobile.twitter.com and facebook proper are using react. Along with Walmart.com and many, many others.
The biggest Angular app I've seen is probably grubhub, and there's some painful state bugs there... in fact I don't think I've ever seen an angular app (not using rxjs or redux) that doesn't have weird state management bugs.
I tried using Angular 1 when it came out and it seemed like too much work to learn for such a small benefit. I started learning React at the start of last year and have found it phenomenal. I am not comparing the two, let alone arguing in favour of Angular. I just thought with the swap to Material Design (and async loading data and components) in YouTube, that they were using Angular. Your opinion about YouTube using Angular (or not) has more citation and authority than mine, so I will assume in the future that YouTube does not use Angular (without certainty, of course).
It was always a slippery slope. The last thing Github wants is banner ads all over the place. Sure, this one was tasteful, but if they allow it the door is open for less savory actors.
