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Talkat MountainWest RubyConf 2014 · 2014-03-20..03-21· [career-development]
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Shows the concrete mistakes: a meta_search gem built with heavy metaprogramming that later gets replaced by a simpler two‑method protocol for ActiveRecord; a bug hunt that consumes three hours debugging before finding a Journey issue in version 104 caused by missing equality on custom objects; a stretched gel wrist rest experiment that snaps, staining and hurting people; concrete takeaways about avoiding callbacks, not tying gems to Rails private APIs, and why counteroffers and MMO grind are traps.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:14Dont Overestimate Your Time
  3. 4:41Sticky Hands
  4. 8:39Meta Programming
  5. 11:55Dont be like me
  6. 14:42I blew it
  7. 17:26Callbacks
  8. 19:05World of Warcraft
  9. 21:26Counteroffers
  10. 24:23Money
  11. 27:13Get comfortable
  12. 28:12Hayride
  13. 29:08Cool People
  14. 31:42Fear
  15. 33:17Whats Obvious to You
  16. 35:40Ernies Story
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