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Startup School 2008: Impressions.

16 points by tx 18y ago

SwellJoe 18y ago
Hey, Ev, nice event rundown. I didn't know you were here for the event. Sorry I missed meeting you. Look me up if you're still here during the week.
- tx 18y ago
  I am slow... I should have dropped you a line before I had gotten there. What a pity. I'm out of SV already, heading to Boston.
pmorici 18y ago
"By the way, I simply could not believe my eyes when I saw on average about 20% of the attendees spent a fair share of their time there surfing freaking reddit, slashdot and checking their emails. There was one dude right next to me who had Visual Studio open (yes, a fucking Visual Studio) and kept resizing an empty form non-stop without paying any attention [...]" Funny another rundown of the event commented that the fact that there were so many people "coding" meant it was a meeting of true hackers and not a bunch of people who waste time in meetings all day. I tend to agree with the former assessment though, this just seems rude.
gduffy 18y ago
Visual Studio guy was likely me. I actually didn't resize the form even once; maybe you're just using some poetic license there. Since the internet connection was slow, I couldn't get to my server, so I decided to do one of my favorite 'programming kata' projects: writing a function plotter. I had never done it using GDI, and since I work for Xobni I already had Visual Studio on my laptop (no cloud necessary). The form was 'empty' because the only element in it was a panel. Funny enough, the only guy I remember sitting next to me (that I didn't already know) was also using a Windows laptop. Was that you? The truth of the matter is, my company has used Sheridan's firm before; we've since moved on to another. I've also incorporated companies before. Next time I incorporate a company, I will still be hiring a high dollar lawyer to handle it. I came to startup school for the other 90% of talks, for which my laptop was put away, and my eyes were glued to the front (Altman, DHH, PB, Bezos, Andreesen, Norvig (who was a childhood hero of mine)). It's pretty arrogant of you to pontificate about what should be important to everyone else. I doubt Sheridan was insulted that I was quietly using a laptop in the back of the room. Anyway, it seems like your eyes must have been quite a few other places than his presentation to keep such good track of what everyone else was doing. http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8e6c/images/2070/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8e6c/images/2070/ P.S.: I agree with you about the reception of DHH's talk, and I felt like one of the only ones to take him very seriously.
- tx 18y ago
  No, I don't think that was you :) That guy simply kept moving his finger on the touchpad and jerk that for around throughout the entire talk, I tried not to look at it but it was right in front of my nose :)))

16 points by tx 18y ago

Hey, Ev, nice event rundown. I didn't know you were here for the event. Sorry I missed meeting you. Look me up if you're still here during the week.

tx 18y ago
I am slow... I should have dropped you a line before I had gotten there. What a pity. I'm out of SV already, heading to Boston.

pmorici 18y ago

"By the way, I simply could not believe my eyes when I saw on average about 20% of the attendees spent a fair share of their time there surfing freaking reddit, slashdot and checking their emails. There was one dude right next to me who had Visual Studio open (yes, a fucking Visual Studio) and kept resizing an empty form non-stop without paying any attention [...]" Funny another rundown of the event commented that the fact that there were so many people "coding" meant it was a meeting of true hackers and not a bunch of people who waste time in meetings all day. I tend to agree with the former assessment though, this just seems rude.

gduffy 18y ago

Visual Studio guy was likely me. I actually didn't resize the form even once; maybe you're just using some poetic license there. Since the internet connection was slow, I couldn't get to my server, so I decided to do one of my favorite 'programming kata' projects: writing a function plotter. I had never done it using GDI, and since I work for Xobni I already had Visual Studio on my laptop (no cloud necessary). The form was 'empty' because the only element in it was a panel. Funny enough, the only guy I remember sitting next to me (that I didn't already know) was also using a Windows laptop. Was that you? The truth of the matter is, my company has used Sheridan's firm before; we've since moved on to another. I've also incorporated companies before. Next time I incorporate a company, I will still be hiring a high dollar lawyer to handle it. I came to startup school for the other 90% of talks, for which my laptop was put away, and my eyes were glued to the front (Altman, DHH, PB, Bezos, Andreesen, Norvig (who was a childhood hero of mine)). It's pretty arrogant of you to pontificate about what should be important to everyone else. I doubt Sheridan was insulted that I was quietly using a laptop in the back of the room. Anyway, it seems like your eyes must have been quite a few other places than his presentation to keep such good track of what everyone else was doing. http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8e6c/images/2070/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8e6c/images/2070/ P.S.: I agree with you about the reception of DHH's talk, and I felt like one of the only ones to take him very seriously.

tx 18y ago
No, I don't think that was you :) That guy simply kept moving his finger on the touchpad and jerk that for around throughout the entire talk, I tried not to look at it but it was right in front of my nose :)))