"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,

"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.