Choose Your Adventure!

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1. choose your adventure! START HERE *

2. 1997 Me = 13 years old

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5. I’m Kyle Neath Find me @kneath

6. I’m Director of Design I work at GitHub. It’s a

   tech thing.

7. Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design

8. I’m ≅ Designer That label frustrates me.

9. I’m a Builder I build things with computers.

10. games photo-sharing START HERE TOOLS

11. Our tools are kinda shitty Well, historically they’ve been shitty.

12. THE FIGHT of the decade designer developer vs.

13. Pretty dumb.

14. Things are looking up!

15.  AppKit UIKit

16. Deployment just isn’t a thing

17. Remembering my first time

18. The most challenging part of building Nightfire…

19. ASP 3.0 Game concept SQL Getting the @*!¡#*; hosted

20. Getting the @*!¡#*; hosted Time spent not building the game

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    Learn Ubuntu

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    Learn Ubuntu > Please continue building rad shit

25. Gets this 

26.  WWDC 1997 e way you get programmer productivity is

    not by increasing the lines of code per programmer per day. at doesn’t work.

27.  WWDC 1997 e way you get programmer productivity is

    by eliminating lines of code you have to write.

28.  NeXT Philosophy RADNESS EFFORT EFFORT FRAMEWORK

29.  NeXT Philosophy RADNESS EFFORT EFFORT FRAMEWORK Manages  complexity

30. EFFORT We’re still writing code solving hard problems pushing limits

31. FRAMEWORK

32. increase your potential for building rad shit TOOLS

33. Spectrum of Builders Where do you want to apply your

    potential?

34. Network Ops Business Executive Copywriter Visual Designer UX Designer Sysadmin

    Assembly Hacker Kernel Hacker Mac Developer Marketer

35. This is your potential How do you want to spend

    it? Proficient Mastered

36. 1997 I want to be a master Mac Developer Mastered

37. 1997 I want to be a master Visual Designer Mastered

38. 1997 I want to be a proficient Visual Designer and

    play around as a Mac Developer Proficient

39. 2012 I want to be a master Visual Designer and

    a proficient Mac Developer Proficient Mastered TOOLS and a proficient Marketer! and learn me some Unix!

40. ? 20.. Proficient TOOLS What does it mean when we

    hit Double Rainbow?

41. increase your potential for building rad shit better companies

42. GitHub is a web shop mac shop java shop iphone

    shop windows shop android shop

43. GitHub builds good tools

44. GitHub hires for web mac java iphone windows android …

45. Our windows developer Loves to work on the web api

    windows  needs  a  good  api the  api  needs  good  clients

46. Our iPhone developer Now works on a CoffeeScript app Got

    sick of iOS development everyone  needs  change everyone  wants  to  learn

47. GitHub hires really good builders and keeps them happy so

    they build great tools
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52. better companies Closing thoughts

53. Design is a philosophy Not a profession.

54. Engineering is a philosophy Not a profession.

55. Why can’t you code? If the end product is well-designed

    software,

56. Why can’t you design? If the end product is well-designed

    software,

57. Know how to design and code It’s your personal responsibility

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