And he called upon me to write my ten commandments to show -- because I'm the only atheist Glenn Beck knows To write my ten commandments . And turns out they don't actually overlap, because the first three commandments Judeo-Christiancommandments are pretty much "I am God, suck up to me".
commandments . And turns out they don't actually overlap, because the first three commandments Judeo-Christiancommandments are pretty much "I am God, suck up to me".And those aren't very important to the atheist.
10 moments in the life of life story of Moses okay he receives the Ten Commandments as a child he's drawn out of the Reeds okay he grows up in thepharaoh Court he frees the people he Parts the Red Sea he gets to the
be lame." See, I know people who are selling like business software are used to the concept of "mission critical". We didn't understand that in our business, mission critical, like the law of commandments of mission critical software, one of them needs to be like, "Do not make teenager look lame in front of their friends." Total deal breaker.They wouldn't do it. We were like, "We're paying you to be in this usability test." And it's just like, "I'm not doing it. You can keep your money. I will not. It's not
And knowing your ancestry as a virgin, if you're a binary where did you come from. Fourth commandment -- this conference has really talked about this a lot. Thou shalt use a release process that is reproducible, unattended, and automated.
You need to have canaries of some kind. Your commandments are mostly about technical issues.
do a lecture where I've had a room of people who can all tell me all Ten Commandments in the order that God gave the Commandments to Moses it's not something you know we know most of the Ten Commandments hopefully all of them but I can't tell you the order that they were given unto Moses by God okay however if I give you
and having so much good will, so much will to repair. The Jewish commandment of repairing the world, tikkun olam. It's true that in all big digital companies, and especially in this one, I find it as a real motto,
a new version real quick. The second commandment is-- thou shalt use the right tools for the job. Just because you know a programming language, doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job.
So don't make it more complex, than it really is. OK the third commandment . This is one of my favorites.
and the ability to query the package, it's going to say, I have this tar file and you're like, OK but what's in the tar file? OK this is another commandment that I learned the hard way. You need to think about your upgrade process before-- I love it when people nod, they're like yeah I did that-- before you release your first version,
For instance, there's the popular joke about how Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. One day God appears to a Babylonian and says, "I have a commandment . I'd like to give it to you.” The Babylonian says, "What is it?” And God says, "Thou shalt not steal.” The Babylonian says, "No, thanks.” So God goes over to an Egyptian and offers him the same deal. When the Egyptian hears what the commandment
And he says, there is a train going to a labor camp. He put his 10 Commandments in my hand, and I kissed it So he, at that point, kind of guessed who I was,
uh that was supposed to Define reality from the bottom up and I think it still Merit by obeying Commandments going to church on Sunday or getting baptized I
No one's good except God alone. You know the commandments . Do not commit adultery.
It actually says PowerPoint, but it's using Google Slides. So trying these commandments . So print small. Now these features, some engineer at Google put these features in.
In the bigger, more general sense, that there are broadly pretty obvious ways of human flourishing. Start with the Ten Commandments , for start, that if you don't steal and don't commit adultery and don't murder et cetera and honor your parents and don't tell lies, especially on oath, then this will be a better place to live in than if you go about doing those things.
And basically, the message was, here's what you system administrators need to be asking the people delivering software to you. Here are the commandments you need to ask them to live by. And then I gave it again last year to a test automation group.
So there's lots of different types of product delivery, and lots of different types of customers. But I think these commandments are applicable regardless of what your deployment method or your customers. And of course, the gratuitous, these are my ideas, not Google's.
You need to have canaries of some kind. Keep these commandments in line, in mind apply them to yourself.
You need to have canaries of some kind. to know these commandments .
But none of this limiting, thou shalt not. Who wrote those commandments ? Who gave them the right?
There's not one easy way to do it. I have 12 personal commandments that I identified as part of my happiness projects. And the first one is to be Gretchen.
hungry and you go, "Nope, no snack because I ate those chocolate chip cookies." And then you get home and it's dinner time and you say, "Well I'm pretty hungry but oh these are the 10 Commandments and they are a great guideline.
stories in a certain sequence there's a causal effect this action leads to this action we are drawn to that and when we see the Ten Commandments as a list it's very hard for us to retain that information if this is of interest to you there are tons of neurocognitive studies that have come out in the past 10 years proving this to be true and
So, I want to show you how to screw them a little bit like they screwed some of us. There are six commandments . I'm going to skip the first four, because a lot of us know that, but I'm going to talk to you about the last two. They're a little bit counterintuitive. Who here knows that, when you buy something, and let's say, it's got a one-year warrantee. And your new phone breaks on day 366.
This is the first and greatest commandment .
It also says that the first commandment is to love God with all your heart, mind, and a soul.
It's the first and great commandment , to love God with all your heart, all your mind, all your strength, all your soul.
It's really trying to solve, this is one of the problems we're trying to solve. So here's my first commandment -- thou shalt use a source code control system. We've come a long way with source code control systems, I used SCCS and RCS, and the whole gamut of Unix
And that information needs to make it clear based on your build system and the tools you're using, what that is, and uniquely identify it. So I have two morals for this commandment . Measure twice, cut once.
You need to have canaries of some kind. So my question is about the commandment you had about portability and maintainability of build specs.
It's not a set of commandments in that way.
Why do we look at the 10 Commandments ?
For each of the Ten Commandments , do you obey it?
except it's the 10 million commandments at this point.
on-- I think each of us could get up here, and there'll be some overlap in our commandments , but they will be different commandments . We could probably have a hundred commandments that we think we need to be living by. So I'm really going to be interested in your alls' feedback, and there should be time for discussion at the end of my talk.
And he was working on this, one of these rallies to destroy America that he was involved with. And he was putting together the ten commandments . And he made this argument, which I thought was really counterproductive for a theist to make.
group we have here today um but I've done this all around the world and everyone knows the Ten Commandments many of the Ten Commandments I'm not saying everyone follows them but most of us know and I used to live in the south and they've had the Ten Commandments on their front lawn and they had the right
again let me just use the 10 commandments as a as an example if you would like to live in the same
C deil was uh directed The Ten Commandments in The Silent Age and uh his brother said the trouble with Cecil is that he always bites off more than he
if we say it like it's a commandment is really a suggestion it's a way to help people start thinking about how flavors
you know, commandments for myself every once in a while.
So I wanted to follow the famous ones like the 10 commandments .
He looked at like you know the 10 Commandments and all the different religions.
or one of the first times described in ten commandments , which we know from the Bible--
All my papers . All right. Writing commandments for a bad career. Thou shalt not define terms.
And then you should publish before implementing because that's when your system is the fastest. OK. Talk commandments for a bad career. This is my bad career talk.
But you can go take a look. So do the opposite of the bad paper commandments . Do define your terms.
I just came down from Mount Sinai with the ten commandments .