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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Althogh Sparrow supports non-GMail protocols, it really is primarily for GMail. I use a standard IMAP-mail provider (folders, not tags), and to me Sparrow added very little over what I had with Apple Mail. (Conversly, when I used GMail, it
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
CSSHat (currently) does not support Windows.
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Repost from OSnews comments: This philosophy of putting consistency on this giant pedestal reminds me of the strict non-expressive philosophy of 60s modernist graphic design. They use Helvetica for everything, because Helvetica is neutral,
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Icons don’t have to make sense if people can learn them. I think people are being way to hung up on things being too skeuomorphic. Remember that A didn’t start as an A, it started as a sign for ox. That’s right, our writing system had skeuo
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Upon further reflection I don’t think it’s impossible, but I still think it’s probably very difficult. Both design and coding are both huge fields. I am not merely talking about becoming a good designer and developer at once, but becoming o
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
I think there is simply too much stuff to know about in both coding and design. There is simply not enough not time to become really knowledgable in both. However, I am not sure if you really need to be super knowledgeable to benefit from k
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by TorbjornLunde 14y ago
Pixelmator, Acorn, GIMP and Paint.NET does pretty much this. Pixelmator has a UI that rivals Photoshop in many areas.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I had to use RVM and edit some config files in order to get Rails to run at all. Might not be a big deal of people who are used to that kind of thing, but it did not make a good first impression to beginner like me. This doesn’t seem to be
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I assume that you are being ironic, and you’re right: there was a lot of ugly graphic design in the 90s. This is partially due to the whole grunge-trend… However: I think today we have more beautiful design that we would have had if the des
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I thought the same the first time I used it, I did however only do this mistake once. Maybe it’s a case of something that is confusing at first, but people learn fairly quickly?
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Seems to be an encoding error of sorts. I have a norwegian character in my name (Ø), i used switched it for O and the download worked fine. The app works great, really cool!
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Looks very interesting. The download link seems be down though (internal server error).
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I find it much more likely that it is an result of Microsoft’s Metro design language. It’s something that is happening across many of their products. Apple might still me a influence, but I don’t think it’s minor.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I think you could say that designers are responsible for the psychological side of a product and developers are responsible for the technical side. Developers might respond that they created a great product that solves a problem without any
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
“Solve a real customer problem.” This is exactly what design is.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Doesn’t also SAS and Lufthansa claim to be the most punctual airline? (Seems like different airlines are the most punctual depending on how you measure it…)
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
When I researched what domain provider to use this summer I found many good words about EasyDNS. I’ve only used them a half year, but I am really happy so far.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I think it is one of two: 1. They hired a designer to work with them. 2. They have become good at design themselves. It’s kinda obvious when you think about it.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
What is also really impressive is his speaking skills.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I think RMS is similar to Jobs in some ways. They are both extremely strong willed individuals that has done a lot but have some pretty serious quirks. While I disagree with his pretty extreme views he is at least consistent in them. Also,
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Logo are content, so they should be displayed with img, either as raster (png or gif) or as vector (svg).
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Many of us already are. :) Will Miner spoke about web designer as a hybrid between designer and developer at Build: http://vimeo.com/7835308 I feel like I’ll probably be a designer at heart, but I still want to learn as much dev-stuff as
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Content is always king. Both engineering and design makes no sense without content (in most cases).Design and engineering are ways to work with content. Design is how the cup looks, and more importantly feels in your hand. Engineering is ma
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
This articles seems based on a misunderstanding that design is only about looking good. I would actually say Hacker News and Stack Overflow have very good design. They have design that meets the goals of the sites. That is what design is, m
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Some UI skills, but not design? I'm not sure if I understand here. If you are making up UI, you are designing.
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
Good analysis, but… I think the main problem is not that programmers are programmers… but that they are not designers . I think anyone who is not a designer can make similar mistakes. Ask someone (who is not a programmer and not a designer
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by TorbjornLunde 15y ago
I find the idea of trends with logos quite silly. A good logo (and brand) should outlast short-lived trends.
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by TorbjornLunde 16y ago
I actually think the colours and fonts on Hacker News is pretty good. The only big design problem with Hacker News is the measure (width of the text blocks), which sizes according to the browser. Resizing measure without resizing font-size
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by TorbjornLunde 16y ago
I don't see how this makes Facebook worse than other corporations. Isn't trying to influence the goverment (and probably partially succeeding in it) the norm?
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by TorbjornLunde 16y ago
The main reason is that including IDs makes “selector points” much more complex. A selected with one ID will outweigh a selector with two classes for instance. This can quickly lead to complexity because you need to use a ID many places in

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