May meetup 2015

gehostet durch Tobias Pfeiffer bei Wooga www.wooga.com, 07.05.2015 um 19:30

Join us and have a great time - still looking for a location! :)

Themen

💀 Symbols

This will be a dramatic reading of a long comment I wrote on Hacker News one month ago, in response to the question: “Can someone who doesn't like symbols help me understand the downsides of them?”

I have converted this comment into a presentation and rehearsed the reading, which took me 11 minutes, so it’s too long for a lightning talk, even for me. 😉

I would like to spend any remaining time getting feedback from the audience and discussing the details of the proposal, since it would be a major change to the Ruby language.

Slides are online at https://speakerdeck.com/sferik/symbols.

Empowerment. What does that even mean?

It's not as non-tech as you might think! Empowerment is basically the term that keeps popping up when it comes to solving that issue with marginalized groups (think: more than just women!) within IT. This talk will give you a definition of empowerment that stems from activism and social sciences, not advertising agencies and social media campaigns. It will give you the opportunity to understand reproduction of inequality first on a systemic level and then on an individual one. And then there might even be some answers on how to undermine this system. Some cautious ones and some revolutionary.

💌 Idiosyncratic Ruby 💌

Ruby is not only optimized for developer happiness, but also for writing one-liners and it is still one of the top choices for code golfers. Ruby's grammar definition is more than 10000 lines long and there is no editor or syntax highlighter that actually highlights Ruby correctly. A lot of them already fail at highlighting strings not created with the usual quotes syntax, but with one of the more than 100 other ways. But:

idiosyncratic != bad

Ruby is full of obscure features, which is both a blessing and a curse. Do we need to change something in Ruby 3.0?

Also see the blogging project: idiosyncratic-ruby.com

Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer (63)

Joe Webb
Treffen: 12
Themen: 0

Tobias Bielohlawek
Treffen: 5
Themen: 1

Michael Reinsch
Treffen: 30
Themen: 2

Roland Koch
Treffen: 40
Themen: 0

Jan Lelis
Treffen: 50
Themen: 7

Dennis H.
Treffen: 33
Themen: 1

Duilio Ruggiero
Treffen: 27
Themen: 0

Cameron Prebble 🇳🇿
Treffen: 45
Themen: 0

Sebastian Ziebell
Treffen: 27
Themen: 0

12finger
Treffen: 22
Themen: 0

Josep
Treffen: 19
Themen: 0

Organizer

Tobias Pfeiffer
Treffen: 101
Themen: 15

Laura Laugwitz
Treffen: 2
Themen: 3

schokomarie
Treffen: 6
Themen: 0

nicola
Treffen: 17
Themen: 0

Dennis van de Hoef
Treffen: 7
Themen: 0

Garllon
Treffen: 12
Themen: 0

Hendrik Bergunde
Treffen: 6
Themen: 0

houengg
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

Paul Götze
Treffen: 63
Themen: 1

Chris Berkhout
Treffen: 6
Themen: 0

André Kunz
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

Bastian Bartmann
Treffen: 17
Themen: 0

Jolyon Pawlyn
Treffen: 16
Themen: 0

Gregory Igelmund
Treffen: 12
Themen: 0

Eckhard von Rotte
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Eseigbe Azabi
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

mcmerriweather
Treffen: 5
Themen: 0

Jan Schulte
Treffen: 18
Themen: 3

François Benaiteau
Treffen: 3
Themen: 0

Davide Prati
Treffen: 16
Themen: 0

Jonas Knipper
Treffen: 10
Themen: 0

Johannes
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

Alexey Fedorov
Treffen: 7
Themen: 1

Bodo Tasche 🔭
Treffen: 40
Themen: 3

Christoph Grabo
Treffen: 83
Themen: 1

Nico Hagenburger
Treffen: 30
Themen: 3

Denis Wolf
Treffen: 3
Themen: 0

polarblau
Treffen: 6
Themen: 1

Denis Defreyne
Treffen: 24
Themen: 13

Tim Lossen
Treffen: 4
Themen: 0

Eduardo Sampaio
Treffen: 10
Themen: 0

nerdfunk
Treffen: 3
Themen: 0

Alexander Sulim
Treffen: 25
Themen: 2

Hernan Maguina
Treffen: 22
Themen: 0

Tanja Cerri
Treffen: 11
Themen: 0

Erik Michaels-Ober
Treffen: 10
Themen: 3

Tomasz Solak
Treffen: 5
Themen: 0

Tom Stuart
Treffen: 8
Themen: 2

Armin Pašalić
Treffen: 69
Themen: 3

Hiro Asari
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Paul McMahon
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Peter Grosskopf
Treffen: 14
Themen: 0

Joe Gatt
Treffen: 5
Themen: 0

Andrew Radev
Treffen: 20
Themen: 1

Johannes Mentz
Treffen: 8
Themen: 0

Frank C. Schuetz
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

Robert Schulze
Treffen: 26
Themen: 0

Klaus Fl
Treffen: 10
Themen: 0

Martin Wöginger
Treffen: 7
Themen: 0

Sunito Sven Suska
Treffen: 11
Themen: 0

Alexander Pepper
Treffen: 20
Themen: 0

Ferdous.
Treffen: 6
Themen: 0

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