DomCode 2015
14 Nov 2015 at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium

I have an interest in this sort of content, although my knowledge is very rudimentary.

I felt like a little more context for everything and a bit more 'stair stepping' the knowledge would have been helpful.

That said, I had some insights about the subject while watching the talk and while discussing it afterwards that were quite pleasant.

Please keep giving this kind of talk. If more conferences had this kind of content, I would attend more conferences. However, consider connecting the audience a bit more to the material by building up necessary concepts first before diving in. For example, a more deliberate exploration of the code examples and how everything fits together.

Nothing short of brilliant in it's exploration and insights towards open source communities. I will remember this for a long time.

I liked this talk but I would have liked it more if it wasn't quite so introductory. Right? ;)

I liked this talk. But, I think that I'd like to see a direct sequel to this talk more. Something that assumed some prior knowledge and went directly into building up some environments.

The speaker could have been a bit more spontaneous, but as an intro talk I thought this was excellent. I have no background in parsers (though I have seen other talks about parsing) and thought I grokked what she had to say.

Though honestly I think this talk would have worked out better for a lot of audience had it been scheduled before Dr Hage's talk (as I believe it helped Igor's talk). They sort of complimented each other but came in the wrong order :)

I found this talk was very inspirational. I was motivated to make a change and take action in a way that conferences haven't motivated me in years.

This was a really great compliment to the other talks. Hardware and hardware hacking absolutely fit in with orgs like DOMcode (see how much everyone loved the drone/beacon talk). Would encourage the organisers to have more maker/hardware/real world topics in the future!

The topic was interesting and was a great way to bring intangible-software-builders in touch with things more grounded in real life, like research. Using a combination of hardware and software to learn more about our world, things others haven't researched before, is exciting.

The speaker presented well, and while it wasn't her point I did appreciate how software here was more about "well we needed a program that could take data from x and send it to y and then transform it into this nice graph/chart" where software isn't the be-all end-all but just a means to an end, she articulated it clearly through her story and demeanor.

While short, this was easily one of the best talks of DOMCode, and there were some *very excellent* contenders.

This talk's scheduling could have been better, had it come after the intro-to-parsing talk rather than before it.

It was still a nice ad/exhortion to try out Helium (though I suspect only Haskellers will) and introducing the idea of a more refined set of checks within a compiler in order to help it know *what* is going on so it can give a correct reference frame to errors it finds. I think this idea needs to be shared with other static-typed communities, and I don't mean just Java (though I suppose they could really push it).

I found that, despite not knowing the required base material, the talk was given as clearly as possible and I think I grokked a lot of it. Dr Hage seems an excellent teacher, able to put concepts in both simple terms and with more precise examples (BNF examples).

Interesting! The talk teaches: what quines and logical programming are, how one kind of code is analogous to another and how they're related, a bit of history (though, while Emmy Noether rocks and was le awesome, I didn't really see how she fit into the particular "one math to rule them all" story). Plus getting more developer eyeballs to look at Lispy langs is always awesome.

This was a very well given presentation! I had no idea what quines are but the talk had a gradual, interesting introduction that allowed me to follow the rest. Pulling facts from different disciplines together was very inspiring.