O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> The O'Reilly cons are good as a place where hackers and researchers
> mingle.  This is productive because it avoids the junk byproducts of
> academia and lets the hackers focus more on abstractions and less on code.

Yea, I'd also have to agree the O'Reilly events are big on the mingling and
the hype of the cutting edge. This focus on the not-quite-here is exactly
what Tim is aiming for. At least this time it's properly named, but I'm
really hoping that someone will talk about something I havent heard before
as I could use something new to ponder, as the current state of tech has me
bored silly.

Of course the risk is that it's also to early to tell if all this 30 year
old (ack, it's the 2000's, make that 40 yr old!) technology has commercial
potential THIS decade or not. Based on the booming geek unemployment rate,
lets hope so. Reimplementing all the 3-tier stuff in java/xml/HTTP isn't
doing enough.

I would disagree that the junk is coming from academia. Academic things tend
to be overcomplicated (to address nonexistant problems) but technicly solid,
where commercial things tend to be overcomplicated (so they can charge) but
technicly total crapola. I really need to make my stuff more complicated.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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