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Wow, I was initially interested, but that guy is UNBEARABLE to listen to for more than a minute. Ease up on the latte's dude. YEESH!

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@1: jeez... grow up

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haha, looks like someone has an extra copy of leopard laying around!!

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What is it with so many sort of people sort of using the words sort of after every third sort of word?

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The guy admits at the beginning that he's not in the habit of public speaking, and it's clear it makes him uncomfortable. He's also a bloody genius, so maybe you should pay attention to content, rather than form.

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Hey, give this guy a break. He seems to be a pretty sharp dude. If perhaps his employer would suggest that he joins Toastmasters http://www.toastmasters.org, he could really be dynamite.

I was a programmer for years, but found I had difficulty speaking in front of audiences. After having been a TM for 5 years, I've come a long way.

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He obviously has discomfort being in front of a video camera and his peers, and knowing that thousands of people will watch this tech talk.

Incredibly intelligent guy who's definitely made my life easier. QS is easily one of the most intelligently thought out and implemented apps I've ever come across, Mac or PC.

Anyone who grades this talk on public speaking merits rather than quality of content is entirely off-base. He's not a professional speaker, he's a professional programmer, and I much prefer it that way.

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Thanks for the tip, that was really interesting

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Hey look, I get that not everyone is not suited for public speaking (as noted), but that's actually my point. Perhaps I came off a bit harsh.

I just think that if you're gonna give a 26min+ lecture you should be up to the task. Steve Jobs is up for it, but Gates should step aside and let Balmer....no ummm....Hmm. I'll get back to you.

Bottom line: Dude's a brilliant programmer! Let someone else do the speechilizations.

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Anyone notice toward the end when he says "you could search Spotlight or Google or GD"? GD = GoogleDrive?

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But that's just it -- the quality of content it poor because he's not a public speaker. After watching it, I still don't know why I would ever use Quicksilver.

Google should at least give the guy some help. It seems like Google is just putting these guys out there to die as I've seen in other tech talk vids from them. The only way to get better at public speaking is to keep doing it, or to practice, practice, practice.

Cheers,
FL

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Your children and your children's children will use GESTURES and if you've got an iPhone you already are. I've been begging for this for years and have been loving using xGestures in the meantime (when properly set up and utilized), but I really want gestures to go more mainstream and get more options than xGestures has to offer (currently).

Thank God Nicholas is exploring gestures with "abracadabra", maybe user interfaces will start getting out of the stone-ages for most people after this.

Unfortunately, I've found abracadabra's recognition performance to be spotty at best compared to xGestures so far and I will stick with xGestures for now.

But, nontheless, I'm excited to see how abracadabra evolves. No one with two, able hands has any excuse to get carpal tunnel anymore, start using gestures properly with xGestures and you'll understand why. Not to mention, I've found it to be far faster than fumbling with a keyboard and that makes my productivity improve dramatically over the cavemen still using tons of keyboard shortcuts, etc.

One thing that needs to happen right away though is to be able to turn off the fairy dust that abracadabra forces down your throat without any way to turn it off. It's supposed to be tool and I'd like to keep it that way. The fairy dust isn't going to impress people... my work is going to impress people. Just leave it as an option for twinkies who like that sort of thing getting between them and the work they need to do.

G E S T U R E S A R E Y O U R F U T U R E

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@11: If you don't know why you'd ever use Quicksilver, you weren't paying attention.

I'd be more crippled without Quicksilver than I would be without the Finder. It's all about getting things done without really doing anything. While I was writing this comment, I realized that Desktoptopia had stopped. I pulled up the pref-pane, restarted it, and came back to this comment within about 10 seconds. Without keeping the pref pane on my dock and knowing exactly where to go, there's no way I could do that.

Seriously, just get it and install it. The only kind of person that doesn't like Quicksilver, in my experience, is someone that's never used it. :)

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This explains two things:

1) why google and apple make the best software out there (they have dudes like this working/coding for them)

2) why quicksilver hasn't been updated in nearly a year

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