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Well deserved! Congrats Nick Roseth!

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Ice cream break at Mom & Pop’s in Mankato!

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Lunch at The Naughty Greek.

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Fun afternoon playing mini golf at Can Can Wonderland.

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We watched A Dog’s Purpose. Great movie.

Movie poster for A Dogs Purpose showing a close-up of a golden dogs face with the tagline Every dog happens for a reason and release date January 27.
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Son Volt off to a great start at First Ave!

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Minnebar 12

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Session 0

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  • Punk Rock/Computing
    • Break the rules
    • Simple, fast
  • Point of view is worth 50 IQ points - Alan Kaye

Minnebar 12 on Minnebar

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  • Random
  • History
  • Ideas on future opportunity

Zen and the Art of Agility

Woman speaking at a podium holding a microphone before an audience, with a slide showing Pac-Man labeled Culture chasing a ghost labeled Strategy
  • Nice Sps plug
  • Why agile?
  • Culture > Strategy
  • Why not time tracking?
    • Software is not deterministic
  • Where is agile right? Predictive v Adaptive v Reactive. Also, very much cost of refactoring

Blockchains are coming!

Audience seated in a darkened conference room watching a presenter at a podium beside a slide reading Blockchains are Coming Forewarned is Forearmed
  • Quick overview of bitcoin but focusing more on applications of blockchain

Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming

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  • Reactive overview
  • Functional overview
  • Good summaries and examples of approach

So you don’t hire Jr. Devs? Tell me more

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  • Weird discussion.
  • Totally missing the mark on negative unemployment.
  • Commitment dialogue. Yikes.

Privacy for Everyone

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  • Fine session. Pretty basic advice.

Communicating When Stuff Is Going Wrong

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  • How to communicate bad stuff.
  • This will be final update on this incident.
  • Do not communicate time to repair. Don’t agree with that for production items.

See also Minnebar collection.

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Watched Moonlight tonight. Great movie.

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Watched Get Out tonight. Creepy.

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Watched Beauty & the Beast.

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