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Hipster Tech, Cargo Culting, and you being of n...

Hipster Tech, Cargo Culting, and you being of no use (to me)

I gave this talk at Railscamp 18 in Canberra, 11th–14th of December 2015.

Sebastian von Conrad

December 13, 2015
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  1. cult |kʌlt| noun a religion or sect considered to be

    false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
  2. cult |kʌlt| noun a religion or sect considered to be

    false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
  3. cult |kʌlt| noun a religion or sect considered to be

    false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
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  7. Seriously, though, who would have thought it would be the

    JS community who would get excited about immutability?
  8. Elixir won’t do you much good if I need to

    drop you into a Rails monolith.
  9. If all you have is hammers in your tool belt,

    then you are of no use to me.
  10. Learn new languages and frameworks because of the patterns they

    employ. (Not because they’re the New Shiny.)
  11. Rather than New Shiny Hipster Tech, I want you to

    learn about: I’ll tweet out a link to all of them later.
  12. If you can only think of one way to solve

    a problem, the only way you can succeed is by luck.