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.
On the other hand DHH seems to have a bad temper so banning him might work out.
You can learn anything for free on the Internet.
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.
> 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.
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
> - Evan
That is a very strange way to say "is the person who created Ruby-on-Rails"
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.
The whole thing was meant to be tongue in cheek. :)