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There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum. There is also the responsibility of the organizers to pull the plug on the display, th

by russell 17y ago

There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum. There is also the responsibility of the organizers to pull the plug on the display, the microphone, and the speaker. The members of the audience have a responsibility to hiss, boo, and shout.

FraaJad 17y ago
..and walkout in protest.
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9oliYQjP 17y ago
I think I've seen this presentation before and I thought it was funny as did some of my female counterparts who attended the conference. When Hoss was at the conference I attended, he was very self-deprecating. But this was in Canada, and Hoss is Scottish. Never go to the U.S. and do anything remotely like this in front of an American audience. EDIT: the part I saw a the conference was his orgasmatron flash animation, not all the other stuff mentioned. However, in context during the presentation, the flash animation was still pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunHciZxXaY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunHciZxXaY
jrockway 17y ago
So let's say you enjoy this sort of thing. What is the appropriate forum? (Are you saying there are just some things we shouldn't talk about or say? Really?) Anyway, why are programming conferences considered "professional"? I don't consider programming "a profession". It's something I do for fun. I chat with my friends, I write some code... sometimes people give me money, but that doesn't really matter to me, it's a secondary aspect. So if you consider programming something fun, I don't understand why programming conferences are supposed to be "professional".
jamesbritt 17y ago
"There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum." Did you watch the presentation? I've not. But I've read two simplified accounts, with enough differences to make me wonder what was actually shown, and how much expectations or bias colored the description.

by russell 17y ago

FraaJad 17y ago

..and walkout in protest.

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9oliYQjP 17y ago

I think I've seen this presentation before and I thought it was funny as did some of my female counterparts who attended the conference. When Hoss was at the conference I attended, he was very self-deprecating. But this was in Canada, and Hoss is Scottish. Never go to the U.S. and do anything remotely like this in front of an American audience. EDIT: the part I saw a the conference was his orgasmatron flash animation, not all the other stuff mentioned. However, in context during the presentation, the flash animation was still pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunHciZxXaY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunHciZxXaY

jrockway 17y ago

So let's say you enjoy this sort of thing. What is the appropriate forum? (Are you saying there are just some things we shouldn't talk about or say? Really?) Anyway, why are programming conferences considered "professional"? I don't consider programming "a profession". It's something I do for fun. I chat with my friends, I write some code... sometimes people give me money, but that doesn't really matter to me, it's a secondary aspect. So if you consider programming something fun, I don't understand why programming conferences are supposed to be "professional".

jamesbritt 17y ago

"There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum." Did you watch the presentation? I've not. But I've read two simplified accounts, with enough differences to make me wonder what was actually shown, and how much expectations or bias colored the description.