Comments on: handling mistakes in presenting https://www.selikoff.net/2015/05/03/handling-mistakes-in-presenting/ Java/J2EE Software Development and Technology Discussion Blog Mon, 04 May 2015 14:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Gordon Adelsberg https://www.selikoff.net/2015/05/03/handling-mistakes-in-presenting/comment-page-1/#comment-154951 Mon, 04 May 2015 14:57:23 +0000 http://www.selikoff.net/?p=5696#comment-154951 Thanks for the shout-out. And if I had a nickel for every time I had a typo in a presentation….

Sometimes you just don’t have time to have someone proofread your slides. I learned a trick many years ago: Start your presentation with, “It’s a small mind that can only spell a word one way…”

]]> By: Andrew Monkhouse https://www.selikoff.net/2015/05/03/handling-mistakes-in-presenting/comment-page-1/#comment-154885 Sun, 03 May 2015 19:07:50 +0000 http://www.selikoff.net/?p=5696#comment-154885 I was also the kid who spotted mistakes. I even got one job that way – during the interview, the interviewer showed me some of the source code that he was working on (as part of his “this will be like nothing you’ve ever seen before” pitch) and I said that I don’t understand how a certain line would work – the syntax looked wrong. Turned out that this was the bug he had been looking for in the 2 hours prior to me turning up. Until that point he was not going to give me the job. But me pointing out a bug in code I had never seen before in a language I had never seen before was enough to convince him to hire me.

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