finished notes for DHH keynote

2012-04-23/1-keynote-dhh.md

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 ## Speaker: DHH
 
+The reason we are all still here is because of the progress we continue to make.
 
+### Do you like progress?
+
+* We like things that makes our world better and easier!
+* Asking if we like progress is like asking if anyone likes parfays.
+
+### How much do you *really* like progress?
+
+* REST
+* Ruby 1.9 (progress-smogress)
+* Bundler (clapping!!!!)
+* Rails 3
+* Asset Pipeline
+* Coffeescript
+
+### "The old one was better"
+
+Lots of people like 'the old one better'.
+
+### Not all lforward movement is progress
+
+* Lots of things you can add just add drag.
+* `1:56.3` => `1:57.8` => Not a good change
+* `1:56.3` => `1:54.4` => Good change!
+
+Example of progress:
+
+```ruby
+# Old
+Person.find(:conditions => { :name => "David" })
+
+# New
+Person.where(name: "David")
+```
+
+* **Skepticism is OK!**
+* Curious -> Suspicious
+
+When does the switch from curious to suspicious happen? This switch is not good for the community.
+
+    A conservative is a liberal who got mugged.
+
+    Everyone likes the cutting edge until they cut themselves.
+
+These lost data, introduced a bug, upgrading took longer than expected.
+No one *likes* to lose data!
+
+This scenario is a hinderance to progress.
+1. Why did you change the system!?
+2. It was working before!
+3. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
+4. THIS CAN NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!
+
+    We tried progress. It did not work!
+
+### Growing old
+* Getting old just follows with not liking change.
+* It has to do with mental patterns that we get used to.
+* Change is good when you are young! You are in the perfect curious state!
+* OSS => Free love! Free code!
+* A few might hold on to early ideals. Hippies are now pretty rare.
+* Hippies, lots of times, turn into *Mr. Mature*.
+* Mr. Mature has something to lose.
+* "I know how things are. Don't tell me how to do things."
+* Do not rock the boat to much!
+
+Curious -> Suspicious in the coding world takes 3-5 years.
+Curious -> Supsicious is usually a one way street.
+
+    Loss aversion is the pillar of conservatism. -DHH
+
+* Turning technology into "Easy Bake".
+* An oven does the same thing even though it is a little "dangerous".
+
+#### Progress can be hard!
+
+* If we dumb everything down for the newbies, they will not be learning real skills.
+* Learning real skills requires taking risks!
+* Learn something that is useful and real to make proress.
+
+#### There is no speed limit to learning!
+
+    The pace was intense, and I loved it. Finallly, someone was challenging me - keeping me in over my head- encouraging and expecting me to pull mysef up, quickly.
+
+* Learning like Mr Dummy is not a good way learn anything!
+
+### Loss aversion.
+
+* People hate losing anything.
+* Do not be stuck being loss averse.
+* If you have a different frame of mind, you could be much less risk and loss averse.
+* Be willing to reframe your mind to be a pioneer.
+
+### Great products are made by people who use them
+
+* "I only care about tools I actually use." -DHH
+* "Progress is painful." -DHH
+* Progress hurts a lot less if you accept that it is goign to be painful.
+
+    Rails 4 will change things, break things
+
+Now that we know, we can layer some cognitive response on top of it.
+
+    I will not fear change, I will not fight progress. -DH
+
+* Stay young.
+* Stay curious.
+* Stay hippie.