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Tue, Aug 03, 2004

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"Time together in person is too important to spend working." (21Z)

Reminds me of something PaulVisscher and JasonCook told me when I had dinner with them a few weeks ago. I was asking about the hacker community in Dayton and whether folks ever got together to do code sprints. Paul responded, "When I get the chance to see these people in person, I'd rather just hang out with them." Jason told a story of how he went to one local hacker gathering, where everyone was in a circle, staring at their laptops, something he found rather unappealing. (220)

To some degree, it shows how spoiled techies are in the SiliconValley. There are so many of us here, doing code sprints doesn't necessarily interfere with socializing. When SebPaquet met up with me in December, he had just come from MarcCanter's party and was in awe of how easy it was to run into cool and interesting folks -- not just techies -- around here. (Hey Marc, where was my invitation?!) (221)

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