[HN Gopher] I Went to FOSDEM
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       I Went to FOSDEM
        
       Author : leejo
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-02-14 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | gamache wrote:
       | > Live Demos
       | 
       | > Don't do it. Really, don't do it. Anyone that has been giving
       | tech talks for a while now knows not to do it. Don't do it.
       | 
       | A few years ago, I found myself in San Francisco right on time to
       | see Larry Wall give a talk announcing the release of Perl 6, and
       | showing off some of its (abundant) features.
       | 
       | Larry Wall did the entire presentation in Vim, including live
       | coding.
       | 
       | It's not that no one can pull this off, it's just that most of us
       | aren't them :)
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | Yeah, there's a certain demo gods category who can usually make
         | it work. But it's also sort of showing off. And I'm also
         | somewhat unconvinced about how much demos add to a presentation
         | a lot of the time.
        
         | stavros wrote:
         | https://gitlab.com/stavros/itsalive
        
         | bertil wrote:
         | In the Python world, James Powell is famous for breezing
         | through a combination of vim (the editor) and wat (the tutorial
         | by absurd) with a lot of custom command line tools and even
         | examples that feel at the same time immoral, hilarious, and
         | perfectly crafted. There's a reason his GitHub handle and his
         | company are called "Don't use this code." He's switched to
         | analytical SQL lately, which is less prone to comedy but still
         | very virtuoso.
        
       | vilunov wrote:
       | The ventilation in rooms was absolutely terrible, especially in
       | building H. Rooms in K and U had windows which could be opened,
       | but even that didn't help much. It's not much of a surprise that
       | many people become sick after FOSDEM.
        
         | cnkk wrote:
         | Unfortunately, this has always been a problem there..
        
       | ocal5 wrote:
       | Thank you for these nice quality images and words
       | 
       | > a) remove the card fees, and b) increase the likely hood of the
       | customer leaving a tip.
       | 
       | c) to avoid taxes : )
        
       | evrimoztamur wrote:
       | Hah, funny anecdote about the 'card machine doesn't work' at the
       | restaurant bit. We had the same happen to us in an Indian spot in
       | the city centre. I also didn't question it, I understand why.
        
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