Lightning Talks Part One
summary
A rapid set of mini reports names concrete surprises and concrete fixes: a project pulls in 120 gems which unpack to 4,000 files and reveal 35,000 methods, while app code totals about 1,000 lines against 370,000 lines from dependencies; an accessibility checklist recommends holding back a few tickets, budgeting a ramp, and avoiding 80–page manuals; research pointers cite YARV, deterministic threading and type inference; a startup postmortem admits raising a few hundred thousand and failing, noting VCs’ one-in-ten hit rate.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:57Ruby Papers
- 15:02Book Reading
- 15:32Kids Advice
- 15:52Paying Attention
- 16:02Making Things Out Of Thin Air
- 16:22Putting Pressure On Yourself
- 16:32Repackage Advice
- 16:42The VC Thing
- 17:02The Failure
- 17:22Spending Other Peoples Money
- 17:32Moneys Nice
- 18:02Incentives
- 18:12Dont be exploited
- 18:22Fun to be done
- 18:32Famous
- 19:12Side Projects
- 19:22Unemployability
- 19:32Youll get mixed up
- 19:42Business with a billionaire
- 19:52Idea Lab
- 20:02Starbucks
- 20:12Making sure youre pulling in the right direction
- 20:22Will you succeed
- 20:32Enjoy your work
- 20:42Today is your day
- 20:52Brighton Ruby
