Clojurians Log v2

Thanks! That would be nice! Last year it took quite a while (IMHO), in the sense that I've had people telling me that they wanted to share/send talks to friends, but by the time they appeared, they forgot.

He also said "probably" 🙂

Haha. Totally agree about Charlotte. I left last year missing not only the people at the Conj, but also the people in Charlotte. This year even more so because I made a short detour to New York on my way to the Conj.

I agree that the people in Charlotte and most of the USA that I interacted with were great (except for the lady at the pizza take-out on the airport that told me she could not make a pizza without cheese, she reacted very bluntly).

There are a lot of places in the US with really nice, friendly people... I'm not sure I'd put Charlotte anywhere near the top of that list, but I'd definitely put it above most of the big, well-known cities here 🙂

The guy in the Mellow Mushroom restaurant was fun, right @delaneygillilan

Also I picked up a water bottle in the hotel at the reception, the hotel guy said: yeah, you can have it, just take and enjoy every minute of it. I chuckled a bit

Sure was @borkdude!

Also @delaneygillilan was fun to meet. I look forward to his talk on youtube!

was great in person! y'all are great

unfortunate post to not have a profile photo attached

I think I just look like a regular 30-something burnout with a computer science physique

i was in charlotte a few days early and I got a lot of strangers calling me "cute" - the south is a different country

I hop onto a pull-up bar in between claude prompts but I'm no bodybuilder, haha

I'd be up for another year of Charlotte. My only complaint was that I was unable to find a nice "sit down with a latte and baked good and read your book for an hour" cafe there (I think I tried 5 of them). Does finance just not do cafe culture? :}

ironically I did that in the hotel lobby on Tuesday pretty sterile environment, but they had coffee and nice seats and a quiet atmosphere

Yeah, I think a lot of the coffee shops are either run by a bank or a hotel around the area. So I would expect some level of sterility. To be fair, the nearby "Night Swim" cafe was probably the best actual cofee, and that was I believe in Wells Fargo's building.

I'm ranting, but it just kind of surprised me. In Austin, I see so many people meet for business at coffee shops, from negotiating wedding photography prices to selling businesses. I figured a center of banking and whatever would have lots of great coffee places.

Charlotte is, in my opinion, kindof a disneyland version of an American city. It exists in the way it does because its near a hub airline. Everything in the downtown area we were in was hotel, conference center, concert venue, or restaurant. You go 15 minutes out and its a very different place.

myth, austin only has bbq in gas stations, there are no coffee shops

what about the bagel place next to the hotel? haven't visited but looked like a place to do some work while drinking coffee perhaps

Market at 7th street also had good coffee and could sit with laptop at a table

What a Conj we had this year, eh? And as it usually happens to me - I lose my voice for the next few days from all the loud talking. Why can't we just rent a museum, library or a morgue for a change? Why does it have to be a bar? We're nerds, we just want to talk to one another.

At Strangeloop we had a museum! :)

YES! Alex... we the nerds demand the return of StrangeLoop! We don't care what you call it. "NormalLoop", "StrangeDisunion", whatever

In the survey, I did mention that the Beer Garden was pretty noisy. Better than last year's venue (which was both obnoxiously noisy and, frankly, disgustingly dirty).

MorgueLoop

Last year I remember only being outside (and regretting to not take my jacket)

DeathCoil

Yeah, we'd have some interesting conversations on "containerization", "garbage collection" and "dead code"

"I can see dead code"

what is dead may never die

Nah, that one is for if we're in a big pool party. The god is "drowned" one after all

"What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and... dynamically typed."

To me, the noise at Beer Garden was not the problem. 😀

Yeah, true, that sucked. I think it's fairly rare to have ID scanned on entry here, and it seems that was a recent policy change due to problems with underage drinkers (or accusations of). And the face scanning too... yikes! Although, they were not scanning everyone, so I don't even know how that was supposed to work.

I always carry my passport when I'm outside of 🇳🇱 - you never know :-s

Yeah, I tend to carry my 🇺🇸 passport whenever I'm out of the country too. When I lived in the UK and traveled a lot overseas, it amazed me how many places wanted to see your passport (not bars, tho'!).

No way they would have been scanning my face.

Charlotte is a lovely place though I strongly felt living in a bubble. Few blocks down, atmosphere felt changing. Got introduced to some great cuisine by @delaneygillilan , a pizza that could rival Italy’s (did I just dare say that?) @ mello’s and a cheese stale sandwich (?) @ the market (kind of a calorie bomb and a health hazard though, but delicious). I've met nothing but the nicest people in America. Except for that lady at the airport pizza @borkdude 😂

That was actually New York ;)

I think @rahul080327 mentioned NY being a bit different?

I interacted with maybe 10 people during my short visit to NY. One of them I would describe as nice. I’m now officially and fully cured from my longing to visit NY.

lol

Can mostly agree with @pez the hectic ness and the financial grind (same name of the coffee shop on our hotel btw) threw me quite off. The food there was the big saviour btw. Maybe spending more time there would grow on me

I like Seinfeld though. And David Nolen.

On the way back I watched Curb your Enthousiasm on the plane. Didn't know they had new seasons. Hilarious.

This thread is wildly off track. Let's get back on topic. I'm the king, fight me.

Oops, I typed that before I saw Ag's moves. Ok carry on

I was born with crooked legs. When I complained that kids at school making fun of me, my mother said: "if you move fast enough, people think you're cool...."

Thanks for your great talk, it will be a great resource

I enjoyed your talk too (on the livestream!), @arthurfucher!

it was great to meet you, arthur

Thank you for the exceptional talk.

thanks.. I really appreciate your feedback ❤️