Useless Programming

The presentation I gave as a lightning talk at Hotcode 2013

Transcript

1. Useless Programming as a development methodology Ivan Zarea, @min_ivan
2. useless - having or being of no use
3. By example
4. sl
5. Stands for "Steam Locomotive"
6. Stands for "Steam Locomotive" Meant as a punishment for typos From the manual: display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls.
8. Yes, it displays a locomotive
9. Yes, it displays a locomotive Yes, it's wonderful
10. Yes, it displays a locomotive Yes, it's wonderful Yes, it has options
11. -a An accident. -l Shows little one. -F It flies. -e Allow interrupt by Ctrl+C.
12. -a An accident. -l Shows little one. -F It flies. -e Allow interrupt by Ctrl+C. You can combine them
14. how "useful" is that?
15. cowsay
17. Options, too! -d paranoia. -s "appear thoroughly stoned". -t tired. -w wired!
19. Fun facts: You can add .cow files
20. Fun facts: You can add .cow files From the changelog: "I renamed devil.cow to daemon.cow because I know better :-)"
22. libraries, too!
23. a small Ruby gem
25. "Hotcode".lentgh
26. "Hotcode".lentgh # => 7
27. "Hotcode".lentgh # => 7 "Hotcode".calss # => String
28. this is the only place the meme is actually acceptable!
29. its name?
30. its name? close_enough
31. conclusion?