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I just had the wierdest experience. I went to a small conference in London with talks about real time web-apps. It was basically socket.io and friends the microconference.
There were only about 30 people there, and there were 4 half hour talks. I went because I'm currently evaluating one of the frameworks that was being presented for a project I'm working on.
I tried to strike up conversations with various people, and here's the strange bit, besides 4 of the 5 speakers, I appeared to be one of the only people there interested in in real time web applications, or with experience implementing them at all. As far as I could make out, everyone there was either a friend of a speaker giving moral support, made to be there by the company who was sponsoring the event, or had kinda heard some buzzwords about node.js and figured they should probably look into this realtime thing sometime.
I'd never could have imagined that a tech microconference on a zeitgesty technology could be full of so much apathy. The experience was surreal.
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