I miss conferences, hallway discussions, conference parties, cities I don’t know, cities I know superficially, hotels and hotel bars, even airports and airport shopping and shitty WiFi connections.
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OMG, I’m so sad for Facebook and its business partners bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Are you aware domain-driven design uses the terms to refer to one team’s (or context’s) dependence on another team’s changes? Fun.
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While funny, I admit that I use this question often. It’s extremely hard to fake an answer, especially to follow-up questions, if you don’t actually understand what’s happening
To understand what happens when you type a URL into the browser, you have to start with Soviet ICBM program that led to Sputnik and the political landscape that caused Eisenhower to respond with the formation of ARPA.
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I’m guilty of this myself. Hillel is right.
"Please read the paper before you comment:" me venting about how nobody ever seems to read the primary source before shooting off their hot takes buttondown.email/hillelwayne…
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I would be so happy if the people of Belarus managed to rid themselves of their dictator, and peacefully even
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Unerträglich. Eine Ermahnung, den Leugnern und Verharmlosern niemals auch nur einen Millimeter nachzugeben
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* Sessions can easily be recorded _in addition_ to being streamed live
* Q&As can happen (or be supported by) chat
* Other online interaction tools (like shared whiteboards) may be more usable than their physical counterparts 5/5
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* The set of sessions will be part of a curated whole, hopefully set up by a program committee who knew what it was doing
* The fact that it’s a live event means you’ll have to make time for it, and focus while it’s happening
* Speakers *and* audience can interact 4/5
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* Audience shares the experience of listening to a session. If the tooling supports it, they can talk to each other and share their thoughts
* The audience can connect with the speaker because they’re actually (virtually) there
* The audience can provide feedback to speakers 3/5
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* Speakers and audience can interact. The audience can ask questions. The speaker can ask for a show of hands, or even for opinions.
* Speakers can refer to other talks that happened before theirs, or will happen after theirs.
* Speakers can refer to other current events. 2/5
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An excellent question well worth asking! Here’s my list.
* Live talks are more current than recorded ones (at least after a few days)
* Live talks _feel_ different because speakers act differently in front of a live audience, even if they can’t see them. More authentic. 1/5
I'm not sold on IT virtual conferences. Why are these better than watching selected Youtube videos about the topic?
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I completely missed the news that the Eclipse Foundation already announced the move to Europe in May
An update on the Eclipse Foundation’s move to Europe eclipse-foundation.blog/2020…
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