lines of “how to be a fashionable ruby tester” i didn’t get a response at all, but I really wanted to go to hawaii so i figured i’d send something completely off the wall, seth got back to me within 24 hours.
i learned linux about 10 years ago. i’ve been comitting to open source for the last 8 years or so, sourceforge since 2001... i did not win a high altitude open karate championship, i just found that medal.
these are the tools i use as a ruby hacker, all of them are open source, on github. testing is evenly split with other libs that contribute to delivering code. thank you @dchelimsky, @brynary, @aslak_hellesoy, @bmizerany, @phusion_nl, @dkubb, @godfoca
12 they’re both pretty dude saturated. both are underdogs, the business people pat you on the head and tell you to go play in traffic. “selling platinum artists and building global partnerships, that’s where the REAL money is” ...
GREAT jobs, what can we give back? mentoring, free access to your work, a self sustaining ecosystem. what kind of environments can we create for the next wave of open source hackers?
me when I was 15, it’s the canadian embassy in washington DC. i got to travel through skating as a teenager. i went to a hip hop/punk rock show, the first time i went to an atmosphere show.
) •Madvillain ( w/ Madlib ) •King Geedorah •Viktor Vaughn •MF Doom •Doom Tuesday, January 17, 12 DOOM is a rapper that has continued to publish things under different names over the years. i like that he got creative, metal fingers on beats, metal face on rhymes
of an open source persona. he just disappeared one day, never to be seen again. left countless memories with us. i hope _why comes back as another persona, but we’d probably never know
a troll, a savior, a leader, a collaborator. a whole lot of hard work, and it’s growth. in a year or two you can be the kid rockin’ their underwear on the outside.
growth can be accelerated by finding a crew of quality people couldn’t help but use something like this growing up in a military family crews excel in teamwork, and teamwork is....
Melancholy Gypsies • Bicasso • Asop •50 albums •300,000 units sold Tuesday, January 17, 12 formed slowly over 10 years or so. shipped a ton, mix and match on different projects. not stupid rich but they have more support than ever.
an interestingly similar collective. active reload launched lighthouse, got consumed into ENTP. if you write ruby web apps i’m pretty sure you’ve used something that came outta that incubator.
connection you make with people at conferences trumps twitter, irc, message boards. “but railsconf is like 700$ how on earth do you make it happen?” don’t go. attend more intimate conferences, the rubyhoedown was free, mountain west isn’t too expensive.
Engine Yard, they couldn’t work sending me here into the budget. Cory Shaw graciously offered to take me in for this conf. Mahalo, that meant a lot to me. if you a nice person you’ll be surprised who will take you in.
meet other hackers, show them what you’re working on, even if you’re not too proud of it. figure out what other hackers are struggling with, passionate about. if you meet people and you’ve got things to share....
12 charge people a fair amount, be nice, communication is extremely important. open source persona can be disconnected from the people who pay you normally
dude from the living legends named eligh (LA -> Oakland). i pair program with halorgium (tcs), we kick ass but it took practice (CO -> NZ). while pairing is hot, there’s more to collaboration than just pairing.
he vibed off of, continued growth. worked with definitive jux, rhymesayers, living legends, who knows else. 173 tracks on my laptop. “i’m all about good music, people and progression.” -- murs
not only collaborate, they don’t stick to one language. promiscuous programmer, not just who you work with but what you work in. One kid is working on digging a whole, next thing you know 3 more kids you don’t know show up to help
from 2002 in washington DC. this was a little bigger than the first show, may 150-200 people this time. five years means longer travels and a few more fans.
them understand the solution? help them clean up the mess associated with them trying to implement a feature? help them learn how to test that use feature?
they’re independent and maintain a SOLID blog. they give back and do things like poker tournaments when a conf is in vegas. nick quaranto (qrush) was their intern, he does cool shit, have you seen gemcutter?
ruby is a thing of the past. and we look back on how things changed when we were waist deep in it. open source allowed people to build little empires of their own over time w/o investors.
years, regardless of whether or not you take funding. choose wisely, your work/company/software reflects on you as a hacker and as a professional. let’s stop being indentured servants to other people and let’s do it ourselves.
foods, don’t leave a bad taste in your mouth. they’re filled with passionate people that care about their craft and doing what’s “right”. in the long run, those are the kind of people i want to surround myself with.
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