Words from a. a 2009 talk by Graham Mitchell comprising 62 slides. 61 left!

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1 Words from a a 2009 talk by Graham Mitchell comprising 62 slides 61 left!

2 // excerpt from Worm.java, a snake-like game import java.util.linkedlist; import java.awt.point; See the bug? public class Worm { private LinkedList<Point> buf = new LinkedList<Point>(); private final int INITIAL_LENGTH = 10; public Worm() { Point loc = new Point(512,384); // ~center of 1024x768 window } // queue up initial length, heading south for ( int i=0; i<initial_length; i++ ) { buf.add( loc ); // move next point one pixel toward bottom of screen loc.y += 1; } // now oldest point (tail) is at the center, and head 10px below } // many other methods not shown 60 left

3 // excerpt from Worm.java, a snake-like game import java.util.linkedlist; import java.awt.point; See the bug? public class Worm { private LinkedList<Point> buf = new LinkedList<Point>(); private final int INITIAL_LENGTH = 10; public Worm() { Point loc = new Point(512,384); // ~center of 1024x768 window } // queue up initial length, heading south for ( int i=0; i<initial_length; i++ ) { buf.add( loc ); // move next point one pixel toward bottom of screen loc.y += 1; } // now oldest point (tail) is at the center, and head 10px below } // many other methods not shown 60 left

4 // excerpt from Worm.java, a snake-like game import java.util.linkedlist; import java.awt.point; See the bug? public class Worm { private LinkedList<Point> buf = new LinkedList<Point>(); private final int INITIAL_LENGTH = 10; public Worm() { Point loc = new Point(512,384); // ~center of 1024x768 window } // queue up initial length, heading south for ( int i=0; i<initial_length; i++ ) { buf.add( new Point(loc) ); // move next point one pixel toward bottom of screen loc.y += 1; } // now oldest point (tail) is at the center, and head 10px below } // many other methods not shown 59

5 How Geeky Am I? know at least 17 digits of pi and 15 digits of e can translate binary ASCII manually have a vanity domain (or 4) *since graduating* have taught myself Perl Intel x86 assembly language Scheme Python Javascript (a.k.a. ECMAScript) Ruby have run Linux on the desktop since June 2001 still edit almost everything invim 58

6 forum cred redditor for 4 years (!) 5-digit user id (29386) since summer 1997? I do not have an account on digg. I do not visit digg. 57

7 oh, my 56

8 On Popularity 55

9 Social norms are usually: arbitrary temporary subtle non-verbal 54

10 Popularity is a stupid, shallow game. 53

11 (drink me) 52

12 Popularity is a stupid, shallow game. But you can t choose not to play. 51

13 What s her favorite band? 50

14 What s his favorite video game? 49

15 What s their major? 48

16 What d they make on the SAT? 47

17 What does he do on weekends? 46

18 ? 45

19 You choose to be stereotyped. 44

20 Do you know the rules? 43

21 Observations 42

22 In 1995, I discovered that people sometimes tell me things they don t mean. 41

23 7% - words used 38% - tone of voice 55% - nonverbal 40

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25 deaf? 38

26 Bella, my mom said to me the last of a thousand times before I got on the plane. You don t have to do this. My mom looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines. I felt a spasm of panic as I stared at her wide, childlike eyes. How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself? Of course she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid, there would be food in the refrigerator, gas in her car, and someone to call when she got lost, but still I want to go, I lied. I'd always been a bad liar, but I'd been saying this lie so frequently lately that it sounded almost convincing now. from Stephenie Meyer s Twilight 37

27 Juliet: No, no. But all this did I know before. What says he of our marriage? What of that? Nurse: Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. My back o' t' other side, - ah, my back, my back! Beshrew your heart for sending me about To catch my death with jauncing up and down! Juliet: In faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love? Nurse: Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome; and, I warrant, a virtuous - Where is your mother? Juliet: Where is my mother? Why, she is within. Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest! Your love says, like an honest gentleman, Where is your mother? Nurse: O God's Lady dear! Are you so hot? Marry come up, I trow. Is this the poultice for my aching bones? from William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet 36

28 (Observations) 35

29 0. Clothes make the man. 34

30 Graham Mitchell former weirdo 33

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32 When you pretend to be something you re not, you become the thing you pretend to be. Marc S. Lewis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology The University of Texas at Austin 31

33 1. The little things matter. shaking hands eye contact hygiene (breath or body odor) 30

34 2. Tact is incredibly useful. 29

35 Tact Filters (idea courtesy of Jeff Bigler from MIT) 28

36 Tact Filters 27

37 Tact Filters 26

38 Tact Filters 25

39 Tact Filters 24

40 Tact Filters 23

41 Tact Filters 22

42 Tact Filters 21

43 Tact Filters 20

44 Tact Filters 19

45 Tact Filters 18

46 Tact Filters 17

47 Tact Filters 16

48 Tact Filters 15

49 Tact Filters 14

50 Tact Filters????? 13

51 Tip for Alice It s okay to be direct. 12

52 Tip for Bob Be a word ninja. 11

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54 3. I m not that smart. IQ doesn t help that much. 9

55 Pet Peeves 8

56 0. porn. 7

57 Stages of typical relationships: 0. unknown 1.strangers 2.acquaintances 3.friends 4.dating 5.boyfriend/girlfriend 6.engaged 7.married 6

58 1. Insisting you re right when you aren t. 5

59 Learn to admit when you re wrong. 4

60 2. only jerks get women 3

61 2

62 You can play their game without becoming one of them. 1

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