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summary
Live pop-quiz converts public static void main into lyrics for 15 songs found by scanning the top 2,000 tracks, with live guitar, screencast timing edits and a QR-based quiz app for audience responses. The talk notes Java’s new void main shorthand and keeps songs that still fit, shows examples like We Will Rock You and Living on a Prayer, awards an IntelliJ Ultimate license to the winner, and demonstrates that the gag actually maps cleanly to real melodies.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Welcome and intro
- 1:04Origin of the joke
- 3:36Quiz rules and prize
- 4:00First song: We Will Rock You
- 4:47Second song: Oops I Did It Again
- 5:28Third song: Welcome to the Jungle
- 6:34Fourth song: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- 7:18Fifth song: Go Your Own Way
- 8:04Sixth song: Killing in the Name
- 8:47Seventh song: California Dreaming
- 9:31Eighth song: Losing My Religion
- 10:12Ninth song: Candy
- 11:16Tenth song: Seven Nation Army
- 12:01Eleventh song: You Need to Calm Down
- 13:09Twelfth song: Paint It Black
- 13:55Thirteenth song: I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- 14:41Fourteenth song: You Should See Me in a Crown
- 15:22Fifteenth song: Sweet Home Alabama
- 16:12Sixteenth song: Living on a Prayer
- 16:56Seventeenth song: Tequila
- 17:41Eighteenth song: Blue
- 18:36Closing and prize
