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6:18 PM

So, is it worth going to sessions, or not, since you can see them recorded online?

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8:01 PM

Awwww, me no haz powaz here :(

Wait what?

oh, it's on C.SE

Anyway

@SantaClaus GO TO THE SESSIONS

Order of Stuff to Go To:

(1) Keynote

(2) Labs

(3) Sessions, things you don't know about first

(4) hanging out in the hallways and making connections

I was in the "but you can see them recorded" camp until I went to my first one.

There's something... different about sitting in Presidio watching them in person do something.

Waaaay more engaging and fun. And it helps to be able to see the speakers.

and @SantaClaus, ProTip: When you go into Presidio for a session (forget about this for the keynote), go all the way down to the stage and turn left.

Continue on route until about the second set of seats from the end. This is where friendly engineers sit.

Talking to the guy who built touch handling for iOS is pretty awesome

Santa Claus

9:02 PM

I meant is it better to go to labs than sessions

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If you have a choice, go to a lab

Labs are for when you have a question/problem.

Like when a think you learned upstairs is throwing some weird error, you go downstairs and ask why.

Oh, and they're less mean than Stack Overflow. Like going in and saying "I can't figure out Auto Layout, plz halp" is fine, especially if you have a sample project ready to go.

Santa Claus

Okay thanks

What did the guy who built touch handling have to say?

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@SantaClaus We shook hands, he was really friendly, and I asked him a bunch of questions

Santa Claus

9:18 PM

At the moment, I can't think of anything I'd want to ask the guy.

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Mostly about working at Apple, etc.

But being with those folks is awesome.

Oh, and I might have heard someone say something about something sitting there once.

Santa Claus

something?

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Swift

In 2013

Santa Claus

Wut

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I was like, I HEARD THAT NAME BEFORE in 2014

I just thought it was some cool internal tool

Santa Claus

9:20 PM

Oh wow...

Did somebody mention it to you or just overheard?

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Just overheard.

Santa Claus

Wow, I hope somebody starts talking about an Apple Car while I'm sitting there...

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lol

Santa Claus

Whats the format of labs? Just walk-in (except for the UI lab) with a bunch of tables?

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You walk in, there's a person at the front, you tell them your problem. They triage you to a table. You sit at the table, an engineer or two is working the table, goes around in a nice order and eventually comes to you.

Alternatively, you skip the whole table thing altogether and have like five engineers looking over your shoulder. That's awesome.

For when it's not busy

Santa Claus

9:25 PM

Oh, wow.

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Then when they're closing down for the night, the triage person walks around and tells people that they need to leave in x minutes. If the engineer is in a happy mood they take you out of the building and you sit on the steps and keep working :P

Santa Claus

Thats amazing

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It's an amazing place.

Santa Claus

Did you spend a lot of time in the student lounge?

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@SantaClaus Student lounge is primarily a place to get ethernet and snacks, without walking all the way downstairs.

Santa Claus

9:36 PM

@Undo Thanks for your time and advice! I'll probably have more questions in a few weeks in which case I'll ping you :)

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