DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

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On 26 June 2013 09:59, Peter Williams <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On 26/06/13 06:14, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:57:18 +1000
>> Peter Williams <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can you think of a better name than "D Summer Of Code"?  It's very
>>> northern hemisphere centric and makes us southerners feel like the
>>> rest of the world doesn't know there is a southern hemisphere (or if
>>> they do that they don't know the seasons work) :-).
>>>
>>>
>> I'm pretty sure the southern hemisphere has summer too...It's just a lot
>> colder ;) Nobody called it "D Warm-Summer of Code".
>>
>>
> Not all of it.  In tropical Australia, they have two seasons - the wet
> season (aka the suicide season) and the dry season :-).


I like to think of it as the soaking bloody wet season, and the slightly
less wet season ;)
Slightly more tolerable than indonesia, which has only a single 'soaking
wet at precisely 4pm every day, but otherwise lovely weather (if you like
humidity) season'...
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