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Dirk Bergstrom
Computer Geek, NearbyNow Inc.

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I work in Python, JavaScript and Java. Currently thinking about ways to spend less time coding for money, and more time coding for fun.

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Repent!!! For the End of the Unix Epoch is Nigh!!!
posted about 1 year ago:
This was a brilliant work of genius. Schwern deserves an Oscar.
Node.js and How JavaScript is Changing Server Programming
posted about 1 year ago:
Tom is the best speaker evar. I'm sad that I didn't go to his other talk.
Threading Is Not A Model
posted about 1 year ago:
I was very disappointed with this talk. I expected to learn something substantive about concurrent programming in python, and instead I got a long winded discursion about pretty much everything but.
Today's LAMP Stack
posted about 1 year ago:
Couldn't see a central theme or thesis for this talk.
Database Scalability Patterns
posted about 1 year ago:
Got me up to speed on an area I was embarrassingly behind the times on. My only complaint is that he didn't get around to defining "sharding" and SOA, despite mentioning them.
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