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MrDunham
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MrDunham
16y ago
Yet again someone showing how important it is to stay simple. I can no longer count the number of companies I've talked to who imploded under the weight of their own features.
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I know of quite a few designers in the valley. If anyone is looking for some my contact info is under my user name. @Maxdemarzi, I'd be happy to connect you. In a bout of irony, I can't really vouch for them since I haven't used them, so
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16y ago
I worked for a company partnered with Microsoft for a while and it felt like they're trying to deny the cloud, open source projects, cheap software, applications, etc. etc. For a tech company that was founded on innovation, they really have
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16y ago
There's a fantastic video on What Motivates Us. Link is [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc . One of the things they showed an inverse correlation on amount someone gets paid and what they produce when it's anything above m
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16y ago
Try solidworks. It's the only one I learned in engineering school but is really intuitive for a CAD (autocad sucks, but that's because it was hard for me and I never learned it). Also sketchup will give you the fundamentals for free. I'd s
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16y ago
I agree with failures, although many employers want to know WHY something failed - and what you would do next time to avoid said failure. It's ok to fail but it's not ok to fail and not know why and what you learned from it. Least from my e
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I believe that was the promise of communism - which failed due to most people's inherent desire to be better than others or to excel. Also, people realized that they could/should do the absolute minimum, as there was no benefit for working
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Reading through the comments at the end of his entry, it is sad to see how many people missed the point entirely. Everyone got so caught up on his meme that they didn't see the power in memes. Evidenced by everyone discussing the meme and f