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Always good to meet up and chat with Pocket_Man aka Thomas. We first
met roughly a year ago after he pinged me via Twitter while I was
visiting my folks in Northern Germany.

Today marks our fourth get-together, our last geek out was at gamescom
2009.

Meeting up and exchanging ideas, views and experiences with people who
share similar passions is most definitely one of the most rewarding
aspects of publishing articles and producing SuperHyperTurbo.

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I definitely need a more “unified” approach - read bigger bags - soon-
ish oO

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Today Andreas W. and his seven year old son Lukas dropped by in
Munich. Andreas is an avid console collector living on the shores of
lake Chiemsee, some 60 miles / 100 km from Munich.

We first met at the Vintage Computer Festival a couple of years ago
where he and a buddy of his had all kinds of old school gaming gear on
display. Among their items were readily playable Vectrex (incl. the
super-hard-to-get “3D” glasses), Nintendo Virtual Boy and a range of
Atari consoles. Lukas proved to be a very knowledgeable SHT fan, too - apparently
having watched and memorized *all* of season one ;)

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Excerpt from Peter Seibel’s interview with Douglas Crockford.

Seibel: When you’re hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones?

Crockford: The approach I’ve taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he’s really proud of and walk us through it. […] I’m looking for quality of presentation […] I want to see evidence that in fact he is the author of the thing that he’s defending. I find that is much more effective than asking them to solve puzzles or trivia questions. I see all that kind of stuff as useless. But how effectively they can communicate, that’s a skill that I’m hiring for.

 - Peter Seibel. Coders at Work. New York: Apress, 2009.

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HELP!

The photo was taken by @TheZeis earlier today.

You can find Mark on Twitter as @mocfilms.

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See my last post for a little more context. The photoset is available on flickr.

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Sorry non-German speaking friends and followers, this is one of those seldom German language posts on my blender/tumblelog:

Freunde, wie viele von Euch wissen, habe ich diesen Monat besonders wenig Zeit. Eine handvoll Projekte und das Studium fordern ihren Tribut und wollen beendet werden ;) Das ist auch einer der Gründe für die Winterpause von Alex und meinem Gemeinschaftsprojekt SuperHyperTurbo (ab Mitte/Ende Februar starten wir in die 2. Staffel).

Eine der wenigen Auszeiten, die ich mir aktuell gönne, ist der heutige Abend in der Roten Sonne in München. Die von Anatol (Power Play, Bravo Screenfun, Spieleveteranen) und befreundeten Musikern gegründete lose Gruppierung ambioSonics lädt zu ihrem Live-Auftritt ein. Ab 21 Uhr kann man - zu vor Ort gestalteten Grooves und Ambientklängen - der Freude an elektronischer Musik fröhnen. Einige Stücke aus früheren Jamsessions gibt es unter diesem Link.

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