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Do Something Else

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April 15, 2015
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Do Something Else

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Transcript

  1. Do Something Else John Sutherland EdinburghJS, April 2015

  2. @sneeu

  3. None

  4. Do Something Else

  5. None

  6. Probably short

  7. Still no JavaScript!

  8. A “soft–talk” about doing other things

  9. Not web–audio

  10. Why?

  11. Computers are awful

  12. Computers only do what you tell them

  13. And talking to computers is hard

  14. Other developers are jerks

  15. None

  16. You 3 weeks ago is a jerk

  17. You 8 years ago is a massive jerk

  18. None

  19. “Bug compatible”

  20. None

  21. Bugs all the way down

  22. Any large system with bugs

  23. None
  24. None
  25. None

  26. Go for a walk

  27. Go home

  28. Doing ♣ makes your ♠ better

  29. Java & Ruby

  30. Python & Clojure

  31. Parenting & line–management

  32. None
  33. None
  34. None
  35. None
  36. None
  37. None

  38. Everything is terrible

  39. … but

  40. None
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  43. None
  44. None

  45. Thanks