Been noticing a trend where conferences have gone highly woke. Last one I attended had a young woman was berating all the men and demanding we apologize for things others have done.
Complaining about it got one person banned.
DHH Being banned by Ruby Conference is another example.
I went to be part of cool tech, not radical politics. I Haven’t done another conference since.
What I remember hearing about Ruby conferences is they were mainly attended by young socially deprived people so eg there were complaints everyone wanted to play Werewolf instead of going to talks.
On the other hand DHH seems to have a bad temper so banning him might work out.
If you're going there for networking with others then stop. You can't network with blue haired women with daddy issues or men who never graduated from kindergarten.
If this is how you think academic conferences are, I can't help you. (Go ahead, go "learn" the forefront of research in a field of say mathematics "on the Internet".)
And being "banned" appears to mean "he wasn't invited to do the keynote presentation this year".
> Hi David,
> Hope you’ve been well.
> With you having been mostly offline the last year, the program committee has decided it would be valuable for the community to start sharing the opening keynote stage with other contributors. We have a few in mind but if you have any suggestions of people who have been impactful this year, please share them.
The guilt of original sin driving individuals towards redemption via organized religion thereby allowing increasingly large, stable civil structures in Europe.
Augustine and a clear exposition of original sin was in the late 4th-early 5th century, about four hundred years after the Roman Empire had already effectively integrated quite a bit of Europe and Asia into a diverse and sophisticated civilization that wouldn't be seen again for another millenia.
Around six hundred years after Augustine, Europe had William the Conquerer and the Holy Roman Empire, I guess? Five hundred years after that, Europe had the Renaissance based in a reclamation of the heritage of the ancient world.
I don't think original sin did a very good job of achieving the integration of anyone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin says "The belief began to emerge in the 3rd century..." which is early enough to establish mild causality for Emperor Constantine. Remember, he didn't have to believe it only to suspect that it would be useful.
The whole thing was meant to be tongue in cheek. :)
DHH Being banned by Ruby Conference is another example.
I went to be part of cool tech, not radical politics. I Haven’t done another conference since.