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The story is reporting on a report from GSA's Inspector General. It's straight reporting. Not a hit piece.
by barney54 10y ago
The story is reporting on a report from GSA's Inspector General. It's straight reporting. Not a hit piece.
- jrockway 10y agoThe author comments that he doesn't like their new logo.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoThe greater point is that 727 hours of staff time were spent on it.
- jrockway 10y agoIs that a lot of time for a logo redesign? I've spent more time brushing my teeth than that.
- striking 10y agoIf you're younger than 29.88 years old: no, you haven't. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(727+hours+%2F+(4+minutes+per+day)+)+in+years https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(727+hours+%2F+(4+minu... This is assuming you've brushed your teeth for two minutes, twice a day, since the day you came out of the womb.
- brainfire 10y agoThat is a great point in favor of it being a hit piece, because that's wrong - rndmize pointed out below [0] that it's a misinterpretation of the report. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862065
- at-fates-hands 10y ago727 hours/10 hours a day = 72.7 days. roughly 22 working days per month. 72.7/22 = 3.3 months As far as logo design goes, this is actually pretty fast. Most companies I've dealt with stuff like this usually takes much, much longer depending on how picky the founders are.
- bovermyer 10y agoI paid $5 for a logo on Fiverr that took the artist about 3 days (general turnaround time, not active work time). To this day, I feel really bad about taking advantage of an artist like that.
- nashashmi 10y agoDivide 3.3 months across multiple people (say 5), and you get less than 3 weeks. Also worth mentioning is the $X million dollars spent on redesigning Merrill Lynch's logo. The only redesign that occurred was a different angle view of the lion.