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How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or Code Ninja
- Uchikoma 16y agoIn other news: How to become just a developer
- lolizbak 16y agoHow to work in team, how to understand a vision, how to compromise, how to lead, how to educate, how to accept others' education, how to accept to be wrong, how to justify when you're right, ... Ninjas, gurus, rockstars, ... isn't that just 2006 buzz words for biz pple recruiting tech pple ?
- jarin 16y agoWhat else is left? Pirate? Astronaut? Clown? Zombie? (also, it is spelled "people")
- digitailor 16y agoThere's always Terrorist, Vagrant, or Dilettante. In my view the latter is usually the most accurate for the self-claimed "Ninjas" out there.
- chadgeidel 16y agoI think I'm a qualified Clown Zombie. Consider that stolen.
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- petervandijck 16y agoRockstars, ninjas, gurus. It's all insecurity if you ask me.
- phlux 16y agoLet me sing you a song about how my sword brings inner enlightenment.
- petervandijck 16y agoNow songsmith-ing, there's a skill!
- ghurlman 16y agoI can't tell if this guy is just nervous, or a terrible presenter. A little of both, I'd guess.
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- loboman 16y agoPossibly just nervous
- wtn 16y agoI think he looks more nervous because he's looking down to read off the paper. Maybe extemporaneous speech would have looked smoother?
- choxi 16y agohe gave a talk at RailsConf '10 and was much better. I also don't think he's that bad though, public speaking's hard
- klochner 16y agoit improves around minute 10, that's where he stops the humorous intro & starts talking about being a developer.
- SingAlong 16y agoI've begun to dislike Youtube because of the fact that it doesn't offer downloads. I dug up the video on blip.tv. If you are interested http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2086330 http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2086330 (yes it allows download).
- SkyMarshal 16y agoIf you're using Firefox or IE, Flashget or Ant solve that problem nicely: http://www.flashget.com/ http://www.flashget.com/ http://www.ant.com/video-downloader http://www.ant.com/video-downloader
- SingAlong 16y agoI use a nice Awk script https://github.com/pkrumins/gnu-awk-youtube-downloader https://github.com/pkrumins/gnu-awk-youtube-downloader to download youtube videos (a dozen thanks to the creator) when i don't find a downloadable version elsewhere.
- jbcrail 16y agoThe speaker put the transcript for his talk on Github: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02 https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02.
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoThe speaker is also one of Github's founder.
- jayliew 16y agoI'm voting that the original poster should have removed the word 'rockstar' and 'ninja' from the title, specific for HN. Just sayin.
- dev_Gabriel 16y agoStop talking, start doing. After a while you'll become a ninja/guru/rockstar/superstar/ubber nerd/super geek/jesus/zombie/whatever you wanna call yourself.
- baberuth 16y agoIf its going to sound like he's reading, I'd rather just read the it. Delivering a fully written out speech word for word in a compelling manner is really hard, so I don't mean that as a criticism, but it was a little hard to listen to.