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Useless Programming

Avatar for Ivan Zarea Ivan Zarea
June 01, 2013
Programming
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Useless Programming

The presentation I gave as a lightning talk at Hotcode 2013

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Ivan Zarea

June 01, 2013

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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.
  7. None

  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
  13. None

  14. how "useful" is that?

  15. cowsay

  16. None

  17. Options, too! -d paranoia. -s "appear thoroughly stoned". -t tired.

    -w wired!
  18. None

  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 :-)"
  21. None

  22. libraries, too!

  23. a small Ruby gem

  24. None

  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?

  32. None