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How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or Code Ninja

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Rockstars, ninjas, gurus. It's all insecurity if you ask me.

Let me sing you a song about how my sword brings inner enlightenment.

Now songsmith-ing, there's a skill!

The speaker put the transcript for his talk on Github: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02.

The speaker is also one of Github's founder.

In other news: How to become just a developer

How to work in team, how to understand a vision, how to compromise, how to lead, how to educate, how to accept others' education, how to accept to be wrong, how to justify when you're right, ...

Ninjas, gurus, rockstars, ... isn't that just 2006 buzz words for biz pple recruiting tech pple ?

What else is left? Pirate? Astronaut? Clown? Zombie?

(also, it is spelled "people")

There's always Terrorist, Vagrant, or Dilettante. In my view the latter is usually the most accurate for the self-claimed "Ninjas" out there.

I think I'm a qualified Clown Zombie. Consider that stolen.

it improves around minute 10, that's where he stops the humorous intro & starts talking about being a developer.

I've begun to dislike Youtube because of the fact that it doesn't offer downloads.

I dug up the video on blip.tv. If you are interested http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2086330 (yes it allows download).

If you're using Firefox or IE, Flashget or Ant solve that problem nicely:

http://www.flashget.com/

http://www.ant.com/video-downloader

I use a nice Awk script https://github.com/pkrumins/gnu-awk-youtube-downloader to download youtube videos (a dozen thanks to the creator) when i don't find a downloadable version elsewhere.

If its going to sound like he's reading, I'd rather just read the it.

Delivering a fully written out speech word for word in a compelling manner is really hard, so I don't mean that as a criticism, but it was a little hard to listen to.

Stop talking, start doing. After a while you'll become a ninja/guru/rockstar/superstar/ubber nerd/super geek/jesus/zombie/whatever you wanna call yourself.

I'm voting that the original poster should have removed the word 'rockstar' and 'ninja' from the title, specific for HN. Just sayin.

I can't tell if this guy is just nervous, or a terrible presenter. A little of both, I'd guess.

Possibly just nervous

I think he looks more nervous because he's looking down to read off the paper. Maybe extemporaneous speech would have looked smoother?

he gave a talk at RailsConf '10 and was much better. I also don't think he's that bad though, public speaking's hard

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