{"id":1878,"date":"2009-11-18T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2020-05-01T19:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T23:24:02","slug":"portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m out in Portland for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sc09.supercomputing.org\/\">Supercomputing<\/a> conference. This is my favorite conference of the year for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Everyone is here. I can stack up face to face half hour conversations with a dozen people in my industry<br>* The right people are in the booths. I can talk to the project manager and the VP of sales for a the products that I care about<br>* I&#8217;m known here. I walk around and see a decade&#8217;s worth of colleagues, customers, employers, professors, and so on.<br>* The best technology is on show. I just took a picture of a completely water cooled motherboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also annoying as all hell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Grad students are terrible presenters<br>* Sales and Marketing types give me hemorrhoids.<br>* Certain buzzwords are tied to the stake and flogged mercilessly (Grid, Cloud, Green).<br>* Thousands of geeks plus free beer = massive ass-hattery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a good show. Thinking big thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m out in Portland for the Supercomputing conference. This is my favorite conference of the year for a number of reasons: * Everyone is here. I can stack up face to face half hour conversations with a dozen people in my industry* The right people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","category-just-bloggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}