Duanemclemore

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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   Yeah, it really feels like people are going back to the pre-5150 personal computer era and looking at things from the ground up again. This is especially exciting to me as someone juuuuuust old enough to have extensively used those machines
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   What you, I, and everybody else here hates and is responding to here is the design choices of major corporations who are larger than many governments and have the ability and incentive to push and use an anodyne and inoffensively bland styl
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   You can't go wrong! His most important treatise - and the book I talk about more with UX people and software devs more than architects even - is A Pattern Language. Basically the deal with Alexander is he was a VERY early adopter of co
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   Thanks for the reply. I'd start by googling the four architects with extremely diverse aesthetic sensibilities I mentioned.
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   Hi, architect here. I'll completely sidestep specific arguments or a criticism of the critic, except one thing. The idea that there's some kind of competition of ideologies inside the entire discipline of architecture is dated. It
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   One of my favorite HN comments of all time. I feel like this all happened just out of frame in a flashback sequence in The Invisibles.
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   Thank you, OP and everyone else who's commented. This is super helpful to see. It's great to learn about Nick's work specifically and as an introduction to the those working in this field - and to see the other helpful links
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   I was an aviation and space-obsessed teen in 1994. My uncle was a private pilot. He took me to the Oshkosh EAA show that year. Being the 25th anniversary of the Moon Landing they had what was purported to be the largest gathering of Apollo
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   by Duanemclemore 3y ago

   "and that's the story of the invention of the Voight-Kampff Test, kids!"
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    by Duanemclemore 3y ago

    I never realized this was the one I had on both C64 and DOS! When I played C64 I was too young (4-5yo) to actually play it. And the DOS version came on one of those disks comprised of half freeware games, half bootleg games. (Back when you
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    by Duanemclemore 3y ago

    Thanks OP - I love whenever this article comes back across the waves and give it a read when it does. While not directly related, if you want another lyrical look in to the world of containerized shipping, check out Sekula and Burch's
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    by Duanemclemore 3y ago

    I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, but in my personal experience this was Autodesk's strategy with AutoCAD. Get market saturation by being extremely light on piracy. Then, once you're the only one standing lower the