The highest density of competent geeks I've found in this area was at http://shdh.org http://shdh.org . I had a lot of fun drinking beer (Old Rasputin Imperial

The highest density of competent geeks I've found in this area was at http://shdh.org http://shdh.org . I had a lot of fun drinking beer (Old Rasputin Imperial Russian Stout and Stone IPA 4tw) and geeking out with fellow programmers. I met a Google millionaire who was developing his own Lisp dialect with Pythonic features, and had a long discussion with another guy about cache performance problems caused by smart pointers that use atomic refcounting. May have been skewed by the fact the only one I've been to was on the evening following Startup School, but I was told that all of the SHDH events have about the same turnout.