On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 00:51:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
The talks are either irrelevant, trivial, or vaporware
(seriously, how much of the stuff described have never come to
pass?), and there's really no benefit in spending several days
of my life on that. Especially when I can watch it on youtube
in half the time (thanks 2x speed playback)... or less (thanks
skimming around to find the interesting nugget in the sea of
boredom).
I think this is a bit uncharitable.
Last year I had an amazing time at Dconf.
Went to bike there for 9 days (800km), to arrive the day before
DConf.
Munich was a beautiful city but Switzerland was very graphic.
Friends jokingly said it was a D pilgrimage and it was, kind of :)
The talks were honestly all interesting, probably being there
puts you in the mood to really get into them. It's a shame not
all of them were recorded. I remember those from Johnathan,
Andrei and those talks on "open methods" more distinctly. Putting
a face on people you've known from the internet is really
surprising.
My only regret was not sleeping at the hotel since you don't get
as many occasions to meet people in a beer settings.
I was more than happy to pay the full DConf price and expenses
for a trip I will remember all my life.
