Keynote: the top 10 ways to scam the modern american programmer
summary
Lists ten concrete scams aimed at American programmers and names them — work for free, gang mentality, inflated manifestos — with examples like changed contributor license agreements, marketing-style community building, and math touted as a panacea. Uses anecdotes, industry case comparisons (Rails vs Django), and a parody manifesto series; argues for empirical evidence over rhetoric. Shows a personal workflow: builds a small Django app course by hacking then tightening it, and reports it works.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 5:02Kent Beck's New Manifesto
- 5:57Customer Discovery over Customer Collaboration
- 15:07Gang Mentality
- 16:15Team Playerism
- 25:46Five Logic over Evidence
- 28:17Shaming with Unwritten Social Wars
- 29:43Common Threats
- 31:57Perfect Hindsight
- 33:37Hiding Information or Rewriting History
- 36:15Rewriting Information To Cover Up Mistakes
- 39:01How Many Web Frameworks Are There
- 40:17How Do You Defend against the Community Destroyers
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