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Well, the rule of needing to have a dev account prior to this morning's announcement may help some of us get tickets, but it's gonna be a little nuts. I like th
by gdubs 14y ago
Well, the rule of needing to have a dev account prior to this morning's announcement may help some of us get tickets, but it's gonna be a little nuts. I like the idea that was floated on twitter: give us a simple coding quiz. A 'Captcha' for Objective-C developers. Adding to that, make the test graded. The better you do, the bigger the pool of available tickets for your percentile.
- ebbv 14y agoExcept that the answer(s) would quickly get spread around over social media and the quiz would lose all meaning.
- softbuilder 14y agoNo, I like the general idea. Especially if not everyone gets the same questions. Given the demand vs. scarcity, there'd be enough lag in the dispersal and consumption of answers that most of the tickets would be obtained by the intended audience. Now we can talk about who that "intended audience" is. Certainly there are some people who belong at WWDC that don't do Objective-C?
- ebbv 14y agoI addressed the different questions issue with "answer(s)". But I guess I need to spell it out for you. The whole purpose of the quiz is to slow down how quickly the tickets sell, thus giving "real developers" a pool reserved for them based on them having knowledge the average person does not have. This reservation method would be circumvented in a matter of minutes by people collecting all the correct answers on social media. Additionally it's pretty reasonable that anyone who wants to come who doesn't themselves know Objective-C probably has a friend who can answer the questions for them in their contacts. This is an obvious idea which would not work enough better than the current free for all to be worth the effort. That was my point with my one line response, and I thought it was pretty clear originally. The original commenter addressed your concern about intended audience by saying there would be different tiers of tickets available. But again, this is moot because the whole idea is too flawed to be worthwhile.
- softbuilder 14y agoPlease read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, specifically "In Comments". Don't say you have! Clearly you have not.
- ebbv 14y agoI have and nothing in there applies, but congratulations on being super condescending!
- softbuilder 14y agoYou're quite welcome.
- michael_miller 14y agoThe most experienced people won't necessarily derive the most value from WWDC. My personal experience is that each time I've gone to WWDC, I've learned less. There's a fixed amount of new tech that's created each year, and a large amount in the past. Newbies have ~6 years of material to learn (since iPhone), whereas veterans only have 1 year to catch up on.
- tolmasky 14y agoOr solve the actual problem by divorcing the media event from the developer conference, thus removing the ridiculous incentive for everyone and their mother to get a ticket for 2 hours worth of content and denying the rest of the week to people who could actually benefit from the sessions.