RubyConf 2014

La historia detecnológica de los últimos 3000 años

Sandi Metz  · 

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also so tell me I was in the crowd yesterday and your hands weren't up long enough who's here for the first time at a ruby comp that's just amazing okay if you're sitting next to one of those people we have 30 seconds in which you can introduce

yourself so do it don't you just love Ruby Cobb it's an amazing thing yeah that we can do this if you're new we're very very glad that you're here alright alright come back now your time's up time's up focus focus I knew that would

happen if I let you go so really calm the Ruby world is different you have to pay attention because I'm ad-libbing I can get out of hand with this group okay there is a way in which out in the real world when we are not here we are all just passing you

know that you're like always sort of on a lookout for that extremely bored glazed look in the eyes or the people that you're talking to because and then we come here and it's like it's just us and it's such a relief I find it so comforting

to be in this room and part of it for those of you who really knew you may not have heard the acronym Menace Wan and I don't know if Matt's us here this morning it that acronym stands for Matt's is nice and so we are nice yeah here he is right

in the front Matt's is nice so we're nice and part of what makes us a community like we're a community online but we're also a community because we get to get together in a group like this and somebody makes that happen and I can promise you

it is not me I suck at event organization actually I got here yesterday morning and I asked the organizers for some numbers about the conference I suggested it might be interesting for everybody to know what the whole thing cost and what part of that cost

your registration fees paid for and I wanted to know some other things like how many CFP proposals they evaluate it's like there's a ton of work somebody received the t-shirt somebody got all the signs made somebody arranged the e ve and ABI who's

one of the organizers told me if I would send her email she would answer me despite the fact that she had a million things to do yesterday she would send me back that data so I can tell you from stage and then of course I forgot to send that email and I got

email from her last night that said what do you need I will look those numbers up and get them to you by tomorrow morning and at that point I thought well this it was enough really it adequately Illustrated the difference between me and her already and so

I don't have that data for you but what I am going to do here let's do two things somebody made it possible for us to be here and I am enormously grateful and they not only did all the work but they got all the sponsors and the sponsors are putting

up money and it really really matters I'm gonna name them OpenGov buds bug snag Constant Contact engineer nine-fold stitch fix Pluralsight Rackspace we pay and all of the organizers they make it possible for us to be here it's it's part of what

makes us us our culture gets built when we get to be together like this and so my job here is not just to be grateful for being here this morning I'm here to tell you your future but and I'm gonna do that I'm gonna tell you your entire accurate

future I'm gonna do that about 29 minutes from now and in between now and then I'm going to tell you your past at least your past if you look like me if you're European descent if you're from west of here if you're from Japan or China or

Korea or if you're from south of here any place in the Americas your story's a little bit different but all of these histories are like tributaries and there's a stream they they they form together in a stream and lead eventually to the present

so that we're all here together and this story the story I'm going to tell you starts with Scrolls first invented perhaps as long as seven thousand years ago and certainly they existed in ancient Egypt by 3,000 BCE now if you haven't heard that

terminology BCE stands for before Common Era it's now what they're saying instead of BC AD so there's a before Common Era and a Common Era and now that I've defined it I'm just gonna quit using it and from now and I'm gonna use just

negative numbers so this this document is written in ink or paint using read or a rolled-up metal tube on papyrus that plant found along the banks of the River Nile and here's a close-up of it you can see there's not much in the way of spaces or punctuation

there aren't many readers at this time and there are but there are many writers and they just have some bargain they can all figure it out they know what this means and so scrolls were the very latest in technology from minus 3000 until right up around

the Year Zero when the Romans got involved and they created something called up codex and a codex is just what we would call the book it contains pages that are bound together along one edge books books are better than scrolls and that they're random access

you can flip through it and find the thing you want it's easy to replace just a single damaged page and for the very first time you can read and right at the same time you can read ruin him and write with others this codex is thin sheets of wood the pages

are thin sheets of wood and they're covered with wax and you scratch on them with that stylus and make a short-term record this is like a room and etch-a-sketch kind of so starting with Romans books begin to be created by monks in what they called scriptorium

Zin monasteries and as far as I can tell script torrents are kind of like a co-working space for writing there but since all the materials are incredibly flammable and the scriptorium is usually right next to the library the heat is never on and monks do the

monks who did all the copying they're just like us right you know if you have if you're having a bad day or get on some code you hate or you don't like the app or you hate your job you might voice your opinion in a snarky comment and the monks

would write little things in the margins will complaints my feet are cold my hand my hand is cramping it's all over those old books and so this is a this painting was commissioned in 692 and it shows a monk in a scriptorium it's curly summer because

the guy's barefoot and some monks being religious people they write about religious things they're write Bibles stuff for religious services here's an example it's in Latin and it's from what they call Salter which is part of the Biblical

Book of Psalms this is written around 1300 and notice the writing is really different now there are spaces and punctuation and there's a obvious font this even though this is handwritten this font has a name it's gothic liturgical hand and there's

also an or a more ornate form of letter that starts sentences and paragraphs and this sheet this document was written by quill on parchment so quills monks started using quills around the Year 600 and the best the very best cool for a right-handed writer comes

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