I got a free ticket for a big data conference in San José
on Monday—for which I am extremely grateful (thank you, Google). It was a bit of a surprise,
because I’d forgotten all about it when suddenly late on Friday I got an email
congratulating me on being the recipient.
The conference was geared primarily (well, at least
99.3%) towards developers, so I got limited value out of many of the
presentations, although the woman from Pixar was really good, and the Facebook
guy who gave the keynote really opened up my understanding of some of the
challenges.
(Did you know that Facebook has live streaming for
celebrities? I’m really hoping that if they open that up to us mere mortals,
they’ll make it prohibitively expensive, because otherwise I’m going to have to
block a whole bunch of people.)
Anyhoo, I had a few interesting conversations, and the
people watching was excellent within the limited range of 4500 software
engineers.
But there was one guy in the general session panel
discussion that I just could not quite… So I thought I’d get your input.
Guys—what the hell is up with this?
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