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You might not care about these opportunities but a lot of people not in SF don't have the plethora of meetups, tech talks with free food/drinks, etc where they can learn about cool new tech and that's really cool.


i lol'ed


It's being published externally, so it's a fair criticism.


It's a cultural practice.


Lol, way to be short-sighted.


It's really a PITA to have to scrub the repo before going public with it, but that's what you have to do or risk security leaks.


Currently, when I fill out the form, I have no idea what's going out to the recipients - perhaps a mad libs-esque design would explain why each field, e.g. party title, is necessary :)


May I ask what you mean with mad libs-esque? I did think about what you're saying while developing it but we kinda rushed things and didn't get to focus on the design much. Maybe for next year? :)


Hi ______(target user) ,

My name is ______(yourself) and this ____(verb) _______(noun)!

Hi Dinosaurs,

My names is atwebb and this is madlibs!

And you'd put the parens on the line, but I'm not sure of the markup for underlining here and feeling lazy.


I see. Great suggestion, might even use that for something else I'm working on :) Thanks for explaining!


Stare?


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I'm not sure what this even means. Are you saying there isn't room for efforts like 1) pushing for better recruiting practices 2) teaching grown women to code?


Let's institute a convention to refer to everyone by a unique identifier. Oh wait, that's prison.


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