Jan
05
Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Here is the video of Zed Shaw’s keynote speech from CUSEC 2008. This was the opening keynote in 2008 and was repeatedly quoted by many delegates for the rest of the conference. Our feedback forms consistently said “Zed Shaw” was their favourite part of CUSEC, and suggested we have more steaks and strippers. Don’t get it? Watch this video.
A tale of suspense, intrigue, corporate greed, and the stupidity of an authorization mechanism that isn’t turing complete. With code.
Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.
And remember, if you’re a student you can still take advantage of the early-bird registration price.
Around 21:20 he mentions how programming is not manufacturing. Spot on. I always considered programming to be equal to product design. Code is just a blueprint for the final product, and crunching done by the computer is the actual manufacturing stage.
The confusion probably comes from the completely inappropriate analogy of how building software is just like building houses. In that story planning is always compared to drawing the plans and writing the code is compared to laying the bricks.
If you ever the construction analogy to explain programming, you should go to bed without dinner tonight!
Ehhh… Montreal bagels are gross.
I thought the exact same thing when I heard that, Aleksander. I literally pointed at the screen and said “Yes.”
Okay, using Factor for his presentation automatically makes Zed the coolest person ever!
@James
You can download the source code for the slides he used on his site: http://www.zedshaw.com/conferences/cusec2008.factor
The slides are linked from the article he wrote about CUSEC2008 here: http://www.zedshaw.com/conferences/cusec2008.html
Great Video. I’ve read Zed’s blog a few times, and thought he was an arrogant bastard, but he’s a good speaker!
i hate corporate red tape ;( everything he said was sooo true.
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Gary Vaynerchuk talks about this to. Do what you love and make money.
http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/10/31/doing-what-you-love-can-lead-to-more-then-just-happiness/
Akelsander Kmetec, I think that planning would be equivalent to drawing sketches and programming would be equivalent to drawing the final plans.
Compiling would be, as you said, laying the bricks.
But who needs programming analogies! Let’s just call planning planning, programming programming and compiling compiling.
very enjoyable talk [why the fuck the slides are only shown at the beginning?!]
@xmzbx Because it’s a student-run conference for students that tries to keep it as cheap as possible (student tickets are 60$ instead of a more industry-standard 2000$) so there isn’t the budget for expensive professional recording. Sorry, but you’ll have to follow along with the available slides on your own.
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clever guy, entertaining speaker, and while he makes some very insightful observations, clearly doesn’t yet get (the big picture of) business.
There are many good reasons why inferior software from a vendor is chosen over superior in-house alternatives. Clueless managers aren’t always the reason. More likely, its because no matter how clever the solution, no matter how bright the programmers, in-house, bespoke software, SHOULD BE AVOIDED LIKE THE PLAGUE (unless you are a tech company and it is your competitive advantage).
but then that doesn’t make for as entertaining an anecdote as steak and strippers…
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