Choose Your Adventure! - Speaker Deck

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choose your adventure! START HERE *

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1997 Me = 13 years old

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I’m Kyle Neath Find me @kneath

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

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Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design

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I’m ≅ Designer That label frustrates me.

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I’m a Builder I build things with computers.

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games photo-sharing START HERE TOOLS

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

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THE FIGHT of the decade designer developer vs.

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Pretty dumb.

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Things are looking up!

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 AppKit UIKit

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Deployment just isn’t a thing

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Remembering my ﬁrst time

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The most challenging part of building Nightﬁre…

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

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

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> Please enter cheat code...

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> Please enter cheat code... >

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> Please enter cheat code... > > Skipping Stage 1: Learn Ubuntu

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> Please enter cheat code... > > Skipping Stage 1: Learn Ubuntu > Please continue building rad shit

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Gets this 

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 WWDC 1997 e way you get programmer productivity is not by increasing the lines of code per programmer per day. at doesn’t work.

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 WWDC 1997 e way you get programmer productivity is by eliminating lines of code you have to write.

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 NeXT Philosophy RADNESS EFFORT EFFORT FRAMEWORK

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 NeXT Philosophy RADNESS EFFORT EFFORT FRAMEWORK Manages complexity

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

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FRAMEWORK

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increase your potential for building rad shit TOOLS

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Spectrum of Builders Where do you want to apply your potential?

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Network Ops Business Executive Copywriter Visual Designer UX Designer Sysadmin Assembly Hacker Kernel Hacker Mac Developer Marketer

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This is your potential How do you want to spend it? Proficient Mastered

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1997 I want to be a master Mac Developer Mastered

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1997 I want to be a master Visual Designer Mastered

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1997 I want to be a proﬁcient Visual Designer and play around as a Mac Developer Proficient

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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!

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? 20.. Proficient TOOLS What does it mean when we hit Double Rainbow?

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increase your potential for building rad shit better companies

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GitHub is a web shop mac shop java shop iphone shop windows shop android shop

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GitHub builds good tools

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GitHub hires for web mac java iphone windows android …

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Our windows developer Loves to work on the web api windows needs a good api the api needs good clients

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Our iPhone developer Now works on a CoﬀeeScript app Got sick of iOS development everyone needs change everyone wants to learn

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GitHub hires really good builders and keeps them happy so they build great tools