Re: [PLUG] Upcoming December talk

[Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com>]

On 9/19/2012 9:56 AM, Mark Dominus wrote:
> > Since nobody has any opinion on this, I will pick something that I
> > know everyone will dislike.
>
> Probably it will involve a lot of advanced mathematics, and I will
> wear my chaps.  You will all be so, so sorry.

Well, you certainly have my attention now! I may need to change my 
plans...this sounds like an excellent talk and I look forward to it now 
that there are chaps involved.

Actually, the main reason I didn't respond is that I'm not sure I'll be 
able to attend -- I certainly didn't want to request a discussion on 
advanced mathematics and then have everyone who was actually able to 
attend highly disappointed.

But, since no one else has responded, either, I might as well. Plus, the 
math+chaps joke[1] improved my morning, so here you go. Speaking only 
for myself, I'm interested in Perl, I've even written some, but advanced 
topics might be over my head. I'd be interested in hearing about how you 
used an advanced feature to save yourself 100 lines of code, or what new 
features on the horizon could make my life easier. I use git, but I 
haven't adjusted well, so I'd be very interested in hearing how you make 
it conform to your workflow and what that looks like. I don't enjoy math 
at all (do not get me started on "i"), so if you start talking about 
complex math, my eyes will glaze over and I'll do my best to feign 
interest while asking on IRC for waltman to explain in little tiny words 
what you mean :)

In general, I enjoy hearing about what interests other people. What sort 
of projects do you find engaging right now, what sort of hurdles have 
you recently overcome, what sort of implementation nightmares have you 
seen. Then again, near disaster stories are always great, too.

I know this doesn't give you much in the way of suggesting an actual 
topic, and the way $work is looking I'm not even sure I'll be able to 
attend, but hopefully I'll start some sort of discussion for you.

Regards,
~isaac

1 - I hope. I'm begging. Please let it be a joke?
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