Re:Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its al...
by alain94040 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:29PM
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You are missing the point, none of those chance meetings would have happened if they had to be scheduled online.
Re:Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its al...
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:52PM
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You’re missing the point that that doesn’t mean they can’t, it just means you didn’t get exposed to the opportunities to have them. I certainly have had similar online experiences and probably more - my entire early career was built off of irc relationships, and my most substantial network that has been the most stable over time is built in Usenet and irc relationships. Just because your experiences in life differ doesn’t mean it’s the only path.
Re:Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its al...
by breck on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:35PM
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These are all extremely good points and I've completely changed my mind, except for the last one. I highly recommend an in person trip to Mountain View if you haven't experienced the joy of visiting a place where even the student drivers are in Teslas.
Can be done as online gaming events
> - Asking Vinod a question about next-gen registers at Program Synthesis Conference
Can be done using a microphone and camera attached to your device
> - Animated discussion about cpu design over beers post conference in SF
Animated conversations can be done via microphone and video
> - Talking to a startup about IOT management on the roof of an Accel event
Can be done as a vendor breakout with a virtual background of a roof
> - When I was a college student sitting on a folding chair and chatting with a nice woman about the startups pitching at TechCrunch40 (turned out to be M Mayer)
You can always sit in a folding chair and chat with M Mayer in a slack room for the breakout
> - Drew pitching me on Dropbox before launch in Cambridge (boring, I thought)
Drew also has a microphone and camera I bet, but it probably won’t make him less boring
> - Nate pitching me AirBedAndBreakfast in Mountain View (loved the idea from the get go)
Who would ever want to actually go to Mountain View? (N.b., I lived there for many years)