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by alabut 17y ago
Someone please explain the difference between this a FB's Platform. My guess - Prototypes = useful extensions of FB and Apps = fun & games?
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by alabut 17y ago
Shoot, sorry, I'm not sure where he said it then and google's giving me no love.
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by alabut 17y ago
What usually gets overlooked is that Virgin Galactic is only initially for space tourism. The larger goal is intercontinental travel, to connect various spaceports together through sub-orbital flights. It's not on wikipedia anywhere, I watc
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by alabut 17y ago
It is and it isn't - you can use either the desktop client or web app by themselves, or use them together.
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by alabut 17y ago
It's a nice long compilation of interviews with several designers, broken up by topic. I love this "talking shop" approach rather than just throwing up 50 screenshots in a random list - I can always visit one of the CSS gallery sites if I w
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by alabut 17y ago
It's probably a combo of the fact that he's YC alum, his articles are also an experiment in art directing every single individual post, plus you don't find a lot of designers that exhibit the hacker mentality of tinkering with stuff in publ
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by alabut 17y ago
Blueprint has vertical baseline-alignment built in and is a bit older, but this looks worth a try as well. I'm not sure what's up with the proliferation of CSS frameworks lately though, do we really need that many of them?
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by alabut 17y ago
usually by using too many or ones with poor readability Very true, and if I had to distill the advice in the article down, most developers would go far by starting with these guidelines: 1) only use serifs for headings. 2) only use sans-s
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by alabut 17y ago
I'm an on and off again fan of classical music and I got turned on this week to Amazon's "99 most essential" series. It's a pretty good deal - for anywhere from $6 to $9, you get almost a hundred classical songs in a DRM-free format. Someti
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by alabut 17y ago
This link is just a commentary on the real action - here's the official 37S announcement: http://basecamphq.com/transition
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by alabut 17y ago
I've been there - it's even more stunning in person than it is in pictures. They film movie scenes in there all the time.
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by alabut 17y ago
The number of hours to accomplish X goes down as the skill of the individual goes up. I wouldn't assume that they continue to solve for X - you can solve harder problems as your skill goes up too, so hours can be a good way to judge diffi
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by alabut 17y ago
The best tip I can give non-designers or non-artists is to read Dan Roam's Back Of The Napkin. It's about how to use basic sketching skills to both capture and express your ideas. We're holding a discussion on it on Sept 10th at our next UX
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by alabut 17y ago
Agreed that we agree - I limited the discussion to #1 because that's how the blog post described it. #2 is important as well, but honestly, I find that worrying too much about #2 upfront makes it too easy for coders to go down blind alleys
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by alabut 17y ago
I'm not sure that "design" is necessary up-front. Most programmers aren't. And it's often a tug-of-war between designers and programmers to gain respect for their roles: have a designer always come later in the process and you'll get more
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by alabut 17y ago
You can, but that doesn't work very well. Sure it does, just along a different metric - visual cohesiveness. It's a big difference between design and programming - you can and probably should slice off pieces of functionality to implement
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by alabut 17y ago
It's sort of lost - the info is still there in the form of the information they entered, which is a pretty strong hint. You're not likely to forget your name or website url, for example. You still have a point about the usability of labels
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by alabut 17y ago
Read the blog post all the way through: "Once you've found the result you want, we wanted you to be able to DO something with it. To find out what you can do, select a result and press the tab key or the right arrow on the keyboard."
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by alabut 18y ago
I'm a huge fan of Apprentice UK - it's completely different than the U.S. version, much more like the tough-minded and entrepreneurial Dragons' Den.
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by alabut 18y ago
Ack - Megazoomer requires SIMBL and I've been burned by that in the past. The Wikipedia page says the problems are in the past but I'd still be hesitant to install it. I had some kind of app that dimmed the menu bar on command and had to in
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by alabut 18y ago
I agree that the desktop is annoying, so that's why I forked out cash for Deskshade, from the makers of Espresso (a Coda competitor). A simple hotkey combo (for me it's command+return) triggers the show/hide. http://macrabbit.com/deskshade
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by alabut 18y ago
What I like more than anything is that you're 1) creating your own tools for collaboration and 2) trying to solve design problems. It makes me think of 37signals and how basecamp was born, and also makes me a bit jealous because I fall into
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by alabut 18y ago
I like that you're trying to tackle the specific problem of real-time remote collaboration and made a tool to address that - that's great! The difference for me is that I rarely see value in it, compared to just scanning in a quick sketch a
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by alabut 18y ago
As a designer, I couldn't agree more, it's absolutely essential to get your thoughts down visually as quickly as possible (when you've got an idea for a UI and need to capture it) or even more importantly, to work out your ideas in the firs
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by alabut 18y ago
I think the best way to explain our differences is that we have varying preferences for specificity - I like "blogger" because it means "author of a blog post" the same way that I like "commenter" as "author of a comment". And yes, just bec
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by alabut 18y ago
It's all in the viewpoint - I don't see "blogger" as dismissive at all and see "author" a bit pompous for the level of writing.
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by alabut 18y ago
Summary - the blogger envisions the bare minimum of roles needed in a startup and lists them all as different hats. The Hat List * Visionary/Architect * Lead Developer(s). AKA Hackers. * Sysadmin * Toolsmith * Webmaster * DBA * Graphic Ar
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by alabut 18y ago
"The claim was that Citi can't distinguish good from bad." That's not the claim at all - it's that they had a sliding scale of how bad a loan they were willing to make because of incentive to have lax ethical standards, then they hid the
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by alabut 18y ago
Wow, this looks like an insane funhouse of mirrors in Safari. (firefox 3.1 only, apparently)
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by alabut 18y ago
Noted in the footer - this article is a chapter from his book Five Simple Steps: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web. http://www.fivesimplesteps.co.uk/ I highly recommend it for any programmers that want to get either get into the

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