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by RickS 11y ago
from both the slides and the demo UI, you've got a much stronger design sense than the average open source project. Lucky users!
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by RickS 11y ago
>it's almost as if there is an entire division..., sitting around at Facebook cooking up ways to make me login or install the app that is exactly correct
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by RickS 11y ago
this might fall under the "mistakes" category - What data is bullshit / what metrics are either useless or red flags?
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by RickS 11y ago
FWIW, I think there's a big difference when the directions are reversed (although that may not be rational). Example: Log into amazon site with facebook credentials? Hell no. Make amazon purchase through facebook chat bot? Possibly. Wh
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by RickS 11y ago
Depends highly on your use case. For e.g. a forum reader/ news app, absolutely. For a game/something that involved a lot of robust animation and fancy graphics/transitions, not really. We've been working on a banking app
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by RickS 11y ago
> he exaggerates what Verily can deliver, launches big projects on a whim, and rashly diverts resources from prior commitments to the next hot idea that might bring in revenue. This has led to what they describe as difficult meetings wi
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by RickS 11y ago
lexapro - for general anxiety in my case but I understand it works well as a treatment for depression too, since they're so frequently comorbid
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by RickS 11y ago
Things have come a long way in that time. I shyed away from medicine ~2007 because the side effects were gnarly and I was scared it would change who I was. I tryed em out about 3 years ago. It remains among the smartest things I've eve
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by RickS 11y ago
Well, for one, the "when it explodes, there are people in it" problem is likely arise much earlier in the process than with the SpaceX rockets
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by RickS 11y ago
"Writing about a problem" might be more accurately described as "declaring a problem" Of course you've got a hiring problem, when they guy on the other end is selling a hiring solution. In other news, corn syrup i
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What's normal, in your experience, around the area? Thinking about moving out there and would love to talk more, email's in my profile.
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by RickS 11y ago
The bait switch "free" > "give us all your info" modal feels dirty. Just because crappy "growth hacker" blogs do it doesn't mean you have to.
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by RickS 11y ago
> We’ve made it clearer that tagging a company on a project may notify them by email. The correct answer was > The interface now yells loudly when a change would notify anyone but yourself, with the option not to send that notificatio
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by RickS 11y ago
> we can control it ourselves by unfriending/unfollowing/unliking things we don't like... But we can't apply this assumption to the whole active userbase of Facebook/Instagram. Perhaps that is the UX challenge
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by RickS 11y ago
I feel a lot of this as well. It's deeply troubling, when you attach so much of your self worth to work, and the work erodes you so strongly. What's left? I wish it were more accepted so that we could sort it out without having to
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by RickS 11y ago
> so much advertising that there is no more space to advertise on Facebook didn't buy Oculus because they wanted to take fruit ninja to the next level...
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An open letter to Yelp's CEO(medium.com)
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by RickS 11y ago
This depends highly on what you're optimizing for in a job (read: what burned you before that you don't want to get burned by again) Some questions for CEO/upper management that I intend to ask next time: Tell me about the co
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by RickS 11y ago
According to caniuse[1], IE support is janky, period. 1. http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
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by RickS 11y ago
Flexbox layouts "work like you think they work" for the most part, which is really nice, and far better than their predecessors. The 3 "holy shit we needed this before!" features IMO are: vertical centering, height match
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by RickS 11y ago
Did a quick pass of the docs, and the grid system seems to be opinionated/unconfigurable w/r/t changing column ratios as device width scales. Everything is 100% width at mobile size, and once you pass that breakpoint, there&#
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by RickS 11y ago
Some people just really like hard problems.
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Yes and no, respectively. Happy employees require 1) a mission they find internally compelling and 2) a management environment that they feel allows them to do meaningful work towards that mission. 1 is usually pretty fixed. If you sign on
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by RickS 11y ago
I think there's an element of principle to it. I certainly feel that way, and it appears the majority does as well. App GPS, app payment, star ratings... these are not new things. And yet the taxi industry couldn't be bothered to
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by RickS 11y ago
I can appreciate both sides of this. There are lots of times that uber's maps will ignore an alley that would prevent having to circle the block, or will try to send a driver on the highway for one exit when going between 4th and 9th,
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by RickS 11y ago
https://www.recurse.com/
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Denial really helps you stay calm in situations like these. If you freak out, it's for real. If you keep your head on, it's easier to fall asleep saying "maybe tomorrow won't be so bad"
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by RickS 11y ago
My guess (since they mention using agencies, but never an in-house designer): They bought this either as a template or as a contract gig, it was delivered with the expectation that they swap the demo social links out for the real ones, and
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by RickS 11y ago
I've only read to October, but here's a thought that's already occurred: When you start keeping a detailed diary of all the fucked up stuff that happens at your company, it's time to put on your running shoes and GTFO.
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Your analogy is a good one for types of programmers - that disciplines of construction/software worker are not interchangeable (though lots of crane drivers can also drive a forklift). It misses the point of the article though. The a

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