I'm also based in Sweden. I would recommend you attend to any meetup.com you are interested in. The organizers are usually scouting. If you talk to people and discuss the presentation (many don't) you'll get fika invites instead of asking for them!
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We can assume you don't get enough sleep like the rest of us. What are you using then, soda?
My guess would be Mountain Dew or similar
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I'd say about half the people in the Netherlands drink their coffee "gewoon" ("just")! Add too much milk and it's officially "verkeerd" (wrong). As in, coffee machines in petrol stations have a "koffie verkeerd" button, presumably for foreign truckers from far off lands where they spoil their delicious hot beverage with... (blegh) milk.
Speaking of spoiling delicious beverages with milk, have you heard what the English do to their tea?
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Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?
Maybe the common thing that is irritating him is the milk products in Cheese, Coffee and Chocolate.
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#67I'm also based in Sweden. I would recommend you attend to any meetup.com you are interested in. The organizers are usually scouting. If you talk to people and discuss the presentation (many don't) you'll get fika invites instead of asking for them!
Sounds very good. I’ve been impressed by how many interesting and IT-related Meetup events there are in Stockholm.
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Sounds very good. I’ve been impressed by how many interesting and IT-related Meetup events there are in Stockholm.
If you are interested in Ops you should consider the Docker meetups. I hear they are very good.
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Or a mormon?
I'd consider that a valid excuse. Barely.
Willingness to "Do coffee", even if they order a soda or hot cocoa, is a great test of this. Similarly how adverse are they to a meetup at a brewpub or somewhere similar.