And to respond to some commenters, yes, some features (like the shrug operator) were presented in a humorous fashion. No one's advocating you actually make your code look like an orgy of emoticons. I didn't use PPT for the slides, because I like the freedom of needing only a browser to display the slides. They weren't really meant for public consumption, thus the UI is not entirely obvious.
I'm unsure why the person who posted this on HN posted only the slides and not the recording or the blog post. But I have no control over that.
And if anyone has any more questions, you can join us on IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/#perl6
I understand that the video was not meant for public consumption, but I'll still say this, as a general note: It's way more easier to follow when the questions are at the end, and the presentation is not interrupted. I see many speakers saying "Hey, I'd like this to be an interactive thing, interrupt me if you have a question", and although this is nice for offline events, for a talk that'll be published, a more old-school interaction makes the things easier for the guy who watches the video.
Yes, I guess that makes sense. But I think in a 1.5hour talk, many of those questions will be forgotten by the end, so I rather they get asked right away. Especially in a small gathering of 20 or so hackers, most of which know each other.
No, I just took it from another presenter and changed the content of the slides. I believe it's actually a themeable slideshow thingie someone else developed.
Never would've thought my slides I used for a presentation to 20-something people would make it to front page of HN...
You can watch the actual presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paa3niF72Nw I also wrote down the answers for questions that came up during the presentation here: http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/03/wow-perl-6-t... (I now updated to include these in the slides too)
And to respond to some commenters, yes, some features (like the shrug operator) were presented in a humorous fashion. No one's advocating you actually make your code look like an orgy of emoticons. I didn't use PPT for the slides, because I like the freedom of needing only a browser to display the slides. They weren't really meant for public consumption, thus the UI is not entirely obvious.
I'm unsure why the person who posted this on HN posted only the slides and not the recording or the blog post. But I have no control over that.
And if anyone has any more questions, you can join us on IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/#perl6
Cheers.