Hoasi

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by Hoasi 8y ago
Relying on Facebook for a sizeable part of your business is rather foolish.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> I worry that many of us are becoming too distracted with life, logistics, and “productivity” to take time out to experience the things that make us human. True, but art as an industry created a bubble on its own. Nowadays it gives the
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Duchamp, in his genius, realized that though the ability to buy something painfully handcrafted does signal wealth, buying literal garbage is a much better display of wealth. Someone who can afford to buy a meticulously painted portrai
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How to Draw a Startup That Looks Different from Other Startups(subtraction.com)
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Indeed... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. http://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/210_compare.png
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Cutting the middlemen is always a good strategy when it works.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Technological progress cannot create more land The Netherlands did reclaim land from the sea.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> "I went outside to get coffee and ran into three different neighbors who wanted to chit-chat. I wanted to scream, ‘For every word that comes out of your mouth, I’m losing money!" That was the point of the whole article... Wro
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not. It is not high if you don't try to reinvent the wheel. Fortunately, you can build upo
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> But in France, at least, comic books were taken seriously as an art form, Peeters said. “When I was a young author I came from a more literary world,” he said. “People said, ‘What are you doing with comics? You are a clever person. You
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. I'd agree with the second part, not sure about the first part of the sentence... Political knowledge would be something you acquire by direct participation in the political d
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Low culture is necessary and perfectly fine. Still, a lot of work went into releasing these free generic illustrations. Also, the more free clip art is available and used everywhere the quicker it will go out of style.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Not surprising given GoDaddy's long history of malpractice and terrible behavior. "Oh, but we've changed" they said... Glad I ran away from anything they touched since they acquired Media Temple.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Isn't most of the income tax taken directly from the employer. So only a few people will be able to avoid that. Then there is the lovely VAT tax, how are people going to avoid that one? That's right. The French government pro
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Welcome to civil non-compliance 2.0: vandalism as a form of protest. So now taxes perceived as unjust warrant the destruction of state property in retaliation. The French government has already stepped back before. But it never seems enough
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by Hoasi 8y ago
==> This operation has freed approximately 343.7MB of disk space. Wait, that's not trivial.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> "That's selfish" Yes, just like the millions of people who use Adblock software on their browser. I don't see this as selfish, not when it comes online ads. I think this "moral" argument is pushed by peopl
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by Hoasi 8y ago
This is great, one of the things that Jekyll lacks, thank you for sharing this.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Superb work.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
This is a bold move. That should prevent a potential exodus to other companies, post-Microsoft acquisition, although doubtful if such a bleed in customers occurred yet. GitHub is far ahead of everyone else thanks to its user interface anywa
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Hey, let us south-paws have this one societal convention that feels natural to us! Haha, sure, no complaints on this one. Not to mention plenty of other cases where left-handedness is an actual advantage (tennis, boxing, etc.)
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by Hoasi 8y ago
- Having a sketchbook in your pocket at all times - Voice recorder (possibly an app installed on your phone) - Water resistant board for in-the-shower ideas
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Exactly, the "right-handed" way always felt more natural for me (left-handed). Interesting how tradition beats logic though.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
I can confirm the sentiment although coming from another perspective. I was never interested much in video games because I would rather spend my time drawing.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
Sketch, Adobe illustrator, InDesign for custom designs. Monodraw, for simple diagrams that are text based.
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Donald Trump Is a Good President – One Foreigner’s Perspective(harpers.org)
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Creator of Floating Garbage-Collector Struggling to Capture Plastic in Pacific(npr.org)
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> for performance reasons the output image is limited to 500 × 500 pixels. We are currently looking into ways to increase this limit (...) Curious to see how this tool will evolve. Already impressive, with many potential use cases: produ
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> I think the real skill involved is Visual Thinking. Good old fashioned pencil and paper flow state ideation. If there is one practice I wish I had spent more time acquiring it would definitely be illustration / drafting ;) You hea
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> Maybe most current art and journalism online won't be missed at all. Likely they wouldn't be missed. Perhaps we would also realize that enabling everyone to become a publisher was a mistake.

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