DomCode 2016
4 Nov 2016 at Centraal Museum

Don't get me wrong, the subject is interesting for everyone. You can't be told enough to safe guard privacy. The speaker was fantastic, experienced, perfect interaction with the audience, beautiful slides and a reference to one of my favorite movie.

Now for the bad part: after about 15 minutes I got the feeling I was at a political rally. And if prepared myself a bit more I would have noticed that the speaker is running for a political party called "De piratenpartij". Although I really support their cause I don't think that there is no place in modern political system for a single issue party. Furthermore halve of the audience isn't even allowed to vote in the Netherlands. The talk is IMHO really out of place at an international conference like Domcode

This was one the talks I wanted to see for a longer time. All expectations are met; a good story, good presentation, you remain constantly fascinated by the story. The interaction with the audience was well executed.

When I walked into the room I saw that the presenter was one of the people where the topic was about. To me it felt like a direct added value. Someone who knows what he is talking about in practice rather than theory. The most of the theory was already known. Had hoped for more in depth insights? Where should we keep an eye on as developers? How does the spreaker use websites in daily life. The threshold is now too high in order to investigate the full WAI-ARIA guidelines.

Really loved this talk! It's great (for us) to see that we do a lot of stuff that where mention in the presentation. Although we covered a lot, there where still a number of slides where I was thinking; I need to check this in the organisation.

Great talk, good presenter. The recorded code moments were a credit to the presentation. It feels like live coding without f*cked ups or any kind of falter. Before this talk I know that React Native exists. But know I really had an trigger to look deeper and will do some experiments with React Native.

Games were great, was a little confused why the bar didn't just take cash (would've simplified things I think). Good evening of entertainment and slide karaoke was amusing in places (it's a risky one that, can be hit or miss). Thanks to JCID :)

Great talk! For me it was the ideal path as most speakers are telling us. Where I'm interested in; how long such a process will take? How many problems there are on the road passed in review. Maybe it's possible to add some details of the transitioning from a legacy monolithic application towards a group of services? Despite this a good talk!

A reasonable overview style talk about privacy. Trouble is, there was a lot of statements like "if we don't do X then Y will happen and society will collapse" without explaining why, which came across as sensational scaremongering a little. Another thing that leaves me sceptical, is that I think many "non tech" people just dont care. To leap from not caring about privacy ("I have nothing to hide, so why should I care" argument) to eventual collapse of society and liberty is a REALLY unfathomable leap. Identity theft and so on are the real compelling reasons here IMO, and some real world case studies would've helped. This is probably the longest comment I've left on Joind.in, and it's a talk that has got me really thinking about this topic, which I guess means it was a really good talk, but it just lacked that validation I think. Honestly I'm on the cusp of rating this talk a 5 because it WAS good, and although I understand the justifications that we should care, I still don't know how the necessary prudence required can be echoed to non technical folks, and even instilled in the next generations to come.

A well presented case study of improving a team as a whole. It definitely mirrored many of the things I had done managing a team before to improve them, so I could relate to lots of points here, and a few new perspectives helped too! Thanks.