michaels0620

One simple thing to make presentations visually appealing is to ensure a consistent style. If you are using outlined shapes, stick with outlined shapes. If you are using semi-transparent boxes stick with them. So often I see presentations with multiple type faces (where it isn't warranted) and different styles of diagrams. It can be distracting and give the sense that the presentation was just hastily assembled from various other presentations (whether true or not).

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The other issue with people like me who chronically over eat, is that asking me to eat 6 small meals a day is like asking an alcoholic to go to a bar 6 times a day but only order pepsi.

It's gotten even worse now with many fitness gurus strongly advocating 6 small meals a day.

A big part of a child's success in school has to do with parental involvement. Home schooled children, almost by definition, have highly involved parents. It would be interesting to compare home schooled children with regular children whose parents are actively involved in their education to see how that matched up.

How is the readability from a distance? Between the grain of the individual boards and their color it seems like there is less contrast and more "noise" when compared to a generic white board.

They do look nice though.

Does Scala fit your idea of something in between? It has nice type inference features and does not require pure immutability.

I haven't heard of one that does this. In fact an oft stated selling point of JVM based languages is the ability to call and interact with existing Java code and libraries.

I enjoy Scala but I would say there is truth to 3 (phantom menace). Although tool support has improved markedly over the last couple of years I still get cases where the IDE is complaining about an error and I go nuts trying to fix it only to give up, run it anyway, and have the error just disappear.

If you spend too much time reading Scala blogs, you may get the impression that 6 (the type babel) is how many people write scala. A lot Scala bloggers like to write articles that exploit or examine clever aspects of the type system but it can be pretty impenetrable at times. At least to a blub like me.

One issue I have with this is that due to the commonality of spinners, I associate the wait cursor with waiting on the browser (memory issue, temporary CPU spike, large js script running) rather than an waiting on the results of an ajax request.

For me at least, using this technique would probably cause me to perceive the site as being slower or more resource intensive than it truly is.

I've paid for Sublime Text and think it's awesome. I primarily do Scala development and would like to use ST for it but the one thing I miss are highlighting errors in the source. Does anyone know a way to do this? I searched the ST forums to no avail.

Actually, what's endearing (or outright cool) is that he has been able to create an editor good enough that people are willing to pay $50 for it. With lots of free alternatives and big players it isn't the easiest niche to break into. The fact that he's been able to do this primarily on his own makes it more impressive.