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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by petervandijck on Friday March 25, 2011 @12:54PM (#2369251)
Rockstars, ninjas, gurus. It's all insecurity if you ask me.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by phlux on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:09PM (#2369861)
Let me sing you a song about how my sword brings inner enlightenment.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by petervandijck on Thursday April 07, 2011 @10:14PM (#2422113)
Now songsmith-ing, there's a skill!
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by jbcrail on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:52PM (#2369791)
The speaker put the transcript for his talk on Github: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by DanielRibeiro on Sunday March 27, 2011 @01:18PM (#2375422)
The speaker is also one of Github's founder.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by Uchikoma on Friday March 25, 2011 @12:49PM (#2369232)
In other news: How to become just a developer
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by lolizbak on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:06PM (#2369306)
How 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 ?

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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by jarin on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:51PM (#2369528)
What else is left? Pirate? Astronaut? Clown? Zombie?

(also, it is spelled "people")

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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by digitailor on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:56PM (#2369799)
There's always Terrorist, Vagrant, or Dilettante. In my view the latter is usually the most accurate for the self-claimed "Ninjas" out there.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by chadgeidel on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:01PM (#2370339)
I think I'm a qualified Clown Zombie. Consider that stolen.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by klochner on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:19PM (#2369366)
it improves around minute 10, that's where he stops the humorous intro & starts talking about being a developer.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by SingAlong on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:14PM (#2369614)
I'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 (yes it allows download).

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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by SkyMarshal on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:30PM (#2369941)
If you're using Firefox or IE, Flashget or Ant solve that problem nicely:

http://www.flashget.com/

http://www.ant.com/video-downloader

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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by SingAlong on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:34PM (#2369966)
I use a nice Awk script 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.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by baberuth on Friday March 25, 2011 @09:37PM (#2371083)
If 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.

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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by dev_Gabriel on Friday March 25, 2011 @04:08PM (#2370111)
Stop 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.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by jayliew on Friday March 25, 2011 @04:04PM (#2370093)
I'm voting that the original poster should have removed the word 'rockstar' and 'ninja' from the title, specific for HN. Just sayin.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by ghurlman on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:01PM (#2369281)
I can't tell if this guy is just nervous, or a terrible presenter. A little of both, I'd guess.
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by choxi on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:25PM (#2369667)
he gave a talk at RailsConf '10 and was much better. I also don't think he's that bad though, public speaking's hard
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by loboman on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:11PM (#2369326)
Possibly just nervous
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Re:How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or ... by wtn on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:32PM (#2369692)
I think he looks more nervous because he's looking down to read off the paper. Maybe extemporaneous speech would have looked smoother?
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