Nodejsconf
9 - 11 Nov 2012 at Nodejsconf

A lot of concepts about the language and node not supported by any number... Concepts explained maybe valid for a lot of other languages... Completely missed the point according to me...
I didn't like this talk at all... No positive or negative feedback for my work, just time wasted.

Great workshop, and Golo was great. Practice and a little bit of theory in a right mix. Thanks Golo.

Very good presenter, small specific argument, interesting and to the point. I'll resist cutting a star for the initial commercial.

excellent presentation, i'm just missing how the new parser was actually made so much faster. Given the 80/20 rule there should be a main tip, that probably is not just unrolling loops etc..

Sam: Thanks for adding credits to your slide deck. Better late than never.

As for not showing any numbers that couldn't be disputed: I agree with you that "Hello world" benchmarks aren't useful. They are completely irrelevant. However, still making a point in a talk that can't be backed up is just as irrelevant IMO.

Twitter and Ruby were briefly mentioned in the comments after the talk: what people fail to see is that without having 1st built the prototype and later phase 1 of Twitter in Ruby, Twitter might never have happened. It allowed them to get to a critical mass first in a language and framework they were comfortable in. Then, through communication with (upset) users and a lot of hard work moving it over to scala/jvm, they managed to support the scale they are at.

You saying that CPS (Continuation Passing Style) is more complex than threaded programming is still purely subjective: a LOT of (good) developers are not great with multi-threaded programming. For me CPS feels like 2nd nature since I've been using it for over 7 years. For others it might not.
OOP felt wrong to a lot of people when it 1st appeared and it took nearly 2 decades for it to go mainstream. These days, it's the dominating style. This is not to say that it will be the last style ever and whenever new paradigms appear, a lot of developers will dismiss them because they are used to the status quo.

I could go on, but I better stop now. Just my 2 cents ;)

Gilles

very good presenter, content a little bit too generic for my taste.

was it me or the second part looked like a 20 minutes long commercial? The first part was not bad at all.

Cut ten minutes of explanation and replace them with beautiful undersee recorded movies instead of 10 seconds you showed, and the rating will boost. Also presentation must be more energetic and determined

I liked it very much, but probably not the right choice to open the conference. Over the head of most people, as the speaker knew very well (in fact he kept repeating it).

Lot of questionable things, sometimes almost plain wrong, but he was kinda playing on this and the irreverent style made everything funny. Overall I liked it. Sam, you should run a spell checker on the deck.