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Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by Dirlewanger »

teddyh wrote: post #102
Dirlewanger wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No fun allowed. Ever.

If you give conference attendees the option to have that much fun, they will take it and go party instead of, you know, networking and discussing the conference topic with their professional peers. This, to me, is not a successful outcome of a conference.

Because there's absolutely no intersection between having drinks and partying and discussing relevant conference topics.

Some of you need to loosen your britches around here, seriously.

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by teddyh »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #131
teddyh wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you give conference attendees the option to have that much fun, they will take it and go party instead of, you know, networking and discussing the conference topic with their professional peers. This, to me, is not a successful outcome of a conference.

Because there's absolutely no intersection between having drinks and partying and discussing relevant conference topics. Some of you need to loosen your britches around here, seriously.

You seem to be making the same point as untog did in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376678

Therefore, see my reply to untog's comment.

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by Pxtl »

ingas wrote: post #84
yawgmoth wrote: post #52

The C#, it turns out, is the same as a Java but with a finer stock of liqueurs. The recipe for C#.NET however, is proprietary and no one can quite explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes.

In which way C# and .NET is proprietary? WCF, WindowsForms, EntityFramework are proprietary. But nobody in sane mind will use them.

I am proficient in all three of those technologies.

I was about to object... but yeah, you're pretty much spot-on. I still say that, except for the omgwtfbbq databinding stuff, Winforms was a fine technology for its time. It's just that its time is past and MS doesn't ever update anything, they just abandon-and-replace with something horribly baroque.

EF is my definition for "so close, and yet so far".

I have no idea what the heck happened with WCF though. Seriously, I can't even find the kernel of good ideas that got corrupted in the process of implementation like I can with those other two.

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by jlgreco »

teddyh wrote: post #129
jlgreco wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're saying that conferences should not place too much emphasis the party aspects, because that is not the purpose of a conference. Right? Well I'm saying that I think that is too imposing. It would be like me saying that bowling alleys should be careful not to place too much emphasis on drinking, because the purpose of a bowling alley is to compete with others at rolling a ball at things. Who am I to say that othe…

I think you are doing the same faulty comparison you made with board games in another comment. The purpose of all those activities (party, board games, bowling) is to have fun . I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. Conferences can (and should , by all means possible) be as fun as possible, but with the goal of the conference taking slight precedence . Since having a par…

" I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. ... the goal of the conference taking slight precedence."

So long as you realize that this sentence is just a statement your own personal opinion, not some sort of universal truth about conferences, then I don't think we have any issue. The goal, or purpose, of a conference is something for organizers and participants to decide for themselves.

(The answer to "You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?" is "No you should not jlgreco, because that would make you (even more of) an insufferable cock.")

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by vadman »

poolpool wrote: post #111
tptacek wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(a) your wife is awesome, (b) I too am a whiskey snob, (c) there's really nothing wrong with Jack Daniels or for that matter with jack & coke, (d) there is something wrong with mixing vodka and cola and calling it a cocktail.

there are many things wrong with Jack Daniels.

But the good thing about it, unlike its superior rival George Dickel, is that JD is not owned by Diageo. It's a pity that I have to boycott Dickel because of that, but I'm not giving my money to those assholes.

EDIT: and yeah, rayiner's wife is awesome :)

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by vadman »

mtts wrote: post #117
kvcrawford wrote: post #69

This is nonsense. I'll have a Jameson on the rocks, please.

Jameson, aka the whisk(e)y for people who don't like whisk(e)y. It's smooth, soft and pleasant, nothing like the nasty, grating stuff they produce in Scotland. A favorite of mine, for sure.

Scotland has 100 distilleries in 5 major whiskey-producing regions with their own traditions. There is really no such thing as "scotch", they are all different, so this generalization is wrong.

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by riquito »

yk wrote: post #83
teddyh wrote: post #24

The title “Cocktails for programmers” gives me the same feeling as would the phrase “Leaf blowers for stamp collectors”. Yes, a stamp collector might use a leaf blower, but it would not be relevant to collecting stamps. On the contrary, using a leaf blower while collecting stamps would be… inadvisable.

Well, this technique gave us windows vista [1]. [1] http://xkcd.com/323/

You meant Windows Millenium (ME)

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by jdminhbg »

meerita wrote: post #31

I don't see a campari one, :D but here goes my daily cocktail: 1. half glass of Campari bitter. 2. Ice 3. orange 4. a shot of water-soda (never use tonic or white wine, if you like it a bit more alcoholic then use some cava or champagne [sprinkledwine])

Campari and soda is a fantastic drink. Refreshing and not super high in alcohol, yet bitter instead of cloying and sweet. For future reference, since it looks like you are not a native English speaker, the phrase for non-Champagne champagne is "sparkling wine."

Re: Cocktails for programmers

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Post by mixmastamyk »

mtts wrote: post #116
mixmastamyk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd suggest trying a better tequila.

There's no such thing. Tequila is nasty poor man's liquor, only made palatable to yuppy palates by insisting you can only enjoy it by inbibing in a taste bud numbing cocktail of salt and lime juice before you drink it. That said, I enjoy a good (=nasty) tequila every now and then. Just like I enjoy a good glass of paint thinner aka Moutai on occasion: give the ol' taste buds a little workout.

No, I'm not talking about Cuervo gold, foo'... Now, get off my lawn!
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