Slides for the talk velociraptor at yapc-na-2011
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State Of The
Velociraptor
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State Of The
Onion
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State Of The
Butterfly
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?
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Larry talks
about ...
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Awesome stuff
he's seen
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Awesome stuff
he's been
involved with
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I'm going to
talk about ...
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Awesome stuff
I've seen
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Awesome stuff
I've been
invo-
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No, wait.
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I shout.
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I shout.
Others do.
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Problem
last year.
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"Laying it
on a bit
thick."
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"Convince the
person stood
next to you."
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This time ...
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"Convince
this room."
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(audience, please
applaud Larry
until he blushes)
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Things that
haven't happened
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Doom
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Gloom
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The sky
falling
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Epic.
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Things that
have happened
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perl5
version 14
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second annual
major release
in a row
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Jesse
Vincent
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Jesse Vincent
Leon Brocard
Ricardo Signes
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Purple
covers
gray
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irc.perl.org
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"it'll always
be about
1000 users"
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1394!
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freenode
#perl
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2010:
490 users
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2011:
600 users
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There are
other
#perl-*
channels
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#perlcafe
#perl-cats
#perl-de
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If you want
to make one,
talk to me
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Raptor
logo
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unofficial
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unofficial
is good
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CPAN has no
pumpking
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CPAN has no
official
modules
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we choose
which modules
to use
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we choose
which logo
to use
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"but a
velociraptor
is tiny"
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small
fast
vicious
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small
fast
effective
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much like
the best
of CPAN!
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metabase
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CPAN
testers
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run your
own smoker!
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minismokebox
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metacpan
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beta.metacpan.org
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run your
own CPAN
search
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https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web
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What we need
to see
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More
outreach
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We're still
in the echo
chamber
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... a bit
(stackoverflow
has a perl tag)
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We need to
talk to
people
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We need to
help people
to be excited
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Resistance
should be
futile :)
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I'll talk
about how
in a moment
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... but first
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Failure
modes
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fail closed
fail open
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security
systems must
fail closed
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dropbox got
that wrong
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Crowne Plaza
got that right
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locked
out!
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replace
hardware
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always
remember ...
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CONFIGURE THE
NEW HARDWARE
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The staff
were awesome
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Off by 2
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All Hardware Sucks
All Software Sucks
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Anyway ...
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Outreach
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Larry talked
about the
light side
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Now for the
dark side
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(where's my
vader helmet)
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What's the
problem with
outreach?
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All Hardware Sucks
All Software Sucks
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All Hardware Sucks
All Software Sucks
All Liveware Sucks
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People suck.
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Assholes
Idiots
Whiners
Trolls
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Assholes
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Loud
Blunt
Obnoxious
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Here's one:
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But ...
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Assholes
may not
be evil
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Direct
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Uninterested
in people
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German
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They might
even be ...
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Antiheroes
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Focused
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Too focused
to think
(about people)
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Too focused
to notice
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Opinionated
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Opinionated
is useful
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Loud and
right
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Loud and
wrong
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Quiet and
right
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Only best
if people
are listening
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Idiots
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Lost
Confused
Incoherent
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But ...
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New to
programming
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New to
technical
english
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Just think
differently
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Anecdote
time!
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"Matt, I'll
take this"
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"Herp the
derp derp"
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... presto,
correct code
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??!!
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Don't knock
it if it
works
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Love your
idiots
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They'll help
each other
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They'll
document for
each other
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One day you
might even
understand them
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Whiners
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Picky
Annoying
Needy
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Good!
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Canary
in the
code mine
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Tweak the
docs
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Tweak the
code
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Tiny
problems
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Tiny problems
can add up
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Whiners are a
walking usability
test suite
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So challenge
them to help
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"How *should*
this work then?"
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They might
not code
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But they *do*
have ideas
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Get those ideas.
Use those ideas.
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Repeat until
there's no
more whining
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(then lather
and rinse to
de-emo your hair)
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Trolls
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Provocative
Inflexible
Annoying
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Real trolls
should be hugged
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But maybe they
just disagree
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"*{$foo} is ugly!"
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Uh. Yeah.
Yeah. It is.
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It's also really
easy to read once
you understand it.
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Don't get
defensive.
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Accept the
objection
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Sell the
reasoning
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A real troll
hates reasoned
counterargument
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They'll
leave
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The rest will
learn something
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Hug the trolls
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Hug the trolls
Teach the !trolls
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Logic.
It works.
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So, in
summary.
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People
suck.
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We're
people
too.
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Even
Ingy
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Welcome to
the future
of perl
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Welcome to
the future
of the perl
community
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Surprise:
It's you!
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Thank You
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