Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors...
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Argument that software projects over ten lines fail because social and historical forces outpace engineering, with concrete gripes: unit tests, functional programming and UML do not stop entropy; MongoDB returns stale or garbage data; Adobe Reader constantly ships new features and forced updates; Windows machines accumulate 83 critical patches after 57 days and a developer hoards perfect window placement for 45+ days until reboot is forced by yanking the battery and dumping it in a river (resets UI but loses security and credit cards). Linux, AWS and dozens of frameworks only complicate recovery.
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chapters (58)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44Introduction
- 1:14Why didnt I study the humanities
- 3:02Modern music
- 3:26How a Rihanna album gets made
- 4:14Im going to become a musician
- 5:21Endorse Me
- 5:38Australia
- 5:57Unmarked Holes
- 6:31Hugh Jackman
- 7:16Australia is on fire
- 7:48Spiders in Australia
- 8:33MongoDB Users
- 9:45Komodo Dragon
- 10:00Life Is Tough
- 10:33How To Improve Developer Productivity
- 11:10Window Placement
- 11:43Professional Window Placement
- 12:52Post Nuclear Apocalypse
- 13:30Perfect Window Placement
- 14:02Unstable Machine
- 14:26Physically Hot
- 15:17Migraine Aura
- 15:56Satan
- 16:21Reboot
- 17:16Linux
- 17:42Kernel Mailing Lists
- 18:03GUI Managers
- 18:46Linux On The Desktop
- 19:09Rebooting
- 19:42Why would my PDF reader ever need an update
- 20:09The plus sign
- 21:41Life advice
- 22:22My mental model
- 22:47The monk
- 23:26The ideal PDF reader
- 23:55The modern PDF reader
- 24:38The accessibility icon
- 24:51Wolfgang von Adobe
- 25:03Im not encouraging blind people
- 25:30Adobe PDF Reader
- 25:40VMS
- 25:57San Francisco
- 26:25Back in the good old days
- 26:46Everything we want
- 27:08Frameworks
- 27:18Cloud
- 27:36Kitchensink
- 27:57Real MVP
- 28:17Gandalf The Grey
- 28:36Drunken Frenemy
- 29:07My Infrastructure
- 29:42If This World Were Fair
- 30:00Internet Connection
- 30:15Im Not Getting 720p
- 30:43Im Ruined As A Person
- 31:24I Got Something From CSI
- 31:52Grace Hopper
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