Knowing when to retire a talk
Rabea Gransberger: It's just a feeling for me. Usually, I've been submitting a talk for around two years, then, at some point, I just stop because I don't want to hear it again myself or the topic is out of date.
Eventually, the "Java 9 Modules" talk will be out of date, when everybody knows how to create Java modules, and then I will have to stop it. But with the code reviews talk, for example, it's funny because I think that it was in a very good state when I gave it for the last time. It was a very good feeling. Before that, I always had the feeling that I didn't like the talk myself. I got very good feedback about the talk from the conference rating systems and so on, so I continued to give the talk, but I was never really satisfied with the talk myself.
Geertjan Wielenga: If you were to describe yourself at a party, what would you say that you do?
Rabea Gransberger: That's really difficult...