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by alabut 18y ago
I should clarify where I got "the Paul Graham route" from: somewhere in the Hackers & Painters book, he wrote about how cheap they were in the beginning of Viaweb, with him coding in an old chair that was falling apart. Sorry I don't ha
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by alabut 18y ago
Yeah I've been doing fine with my $25 Costco folding chair - I just threw a soft couch pillow on the seat and try to remember to sit up straight. I think an Aeron could actually be annoying on a hardwood floor like I have at home, with the
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by alabut 18y ago
I'm always split on that - go Joel Spolsky and treat yourself right to an Aeron, or go the Paul Graham route and skimp with a cheapo? I've had nothing but Aerons at work for a few years and my butt kinda misses them now that I work from hom
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by alabut 18y ago
Not sure how that answers why you need that many systems, sounds like she just needs one beefed up one and a lot of monitors - having extra boxes online to split up the work wouldn't help with Photoshop or her workflow, right?
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by alabut 18y ago
Yeah I'm with you - I can see the need for two systems, one for real work and the other for all the other crap (email, music, etc) but not 6. I wonder if it's like getting tattoos - once you get more than one, it spirals until you're covere
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by alabut 18y ago
Click on the photos for high res versions on Flickr - some of these make great wallpapers.
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by alabut 18y ago
While on the side topic of maintenance (rather than 404) pages, digg's got the most useful one I've ever seen: http://flickr.com/photos/alabut/2947148797/
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by alabut 18y ago
There's an assumption in this blog post that underpins a lot of semantic web stuff, even the biggies like Powerset: that people can, will and prefer to type out "correct" semantic queries versus simply throwing a few keywords into Google. G
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by alabut 18y ago
"And so a designer has to learn yet another language for layout?" I've pretty much had to do that already to work with Flash. That's been a pretty limiting sandbox - we've been hearing "next year is the year Flash finally goes big on mobi
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by alabut 18y ago
"it seems like the same thing: a way to give Mac programmers a way to express themselves comfortably on the web." As a designer, every time I've seen Obj-J, I've thought about it being possibly useful as a bridge in the other direction: a
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by alabut 18y ago
I love how the coach's experience and gut feeling aligns so closely to equations by physicists - that if Usain pushed himself to the fullest and the wind conditions were right, he could run close to 9.50 or even a bit below.
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by alabut 18y ago
Thanks, there's a surprisingly high number of design-related conversations on HN and I'm glad there's a good home for them. It reminds me of what 37signal's blog comments used to be like while they were still a design firm and making a name
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by alabut 18y ago
I'd say it's one of two keys to clean UIs - the other is once you've grouped logically-related bits together, do a quick bit of research to see how others handle similar functionality. For me, that's what really closes the loop and creates
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by alabut 18y ago
No, unfortunately not - here's my longer explanation from an earlier duplicate submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221840
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by alabut 18y ago
Earlier duplicate HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221536
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by alabut 18y ago
The converse is true too, when Twitter is up and running just fine. I'm going to think of that every time I tweet - I succeeded at gossiping and failed at working.
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by alabut 18y ago
Glad to see Jeff blogging about Django again. His initial posts (esp the "Django for designers" one) were one of the few in plain English and a great intro for me at the time, as a designer that had only worked with php and Rails. I've work
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by alabut 18y ago
That was genuinely inspiring and great timing for me personally. I talked my fiancee into quitting her job this week and she's turning in her notice today, for pretty much the same reasons: life's too short for her to drain her soul away at
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by alabut 18y ago
"the story of one success" - only if you consider the company succeeding as their sole success. But another metric is to compare the number of successful products 37signals has put out. They've made a bunch of apps and most (all?) of them d
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by alabut 18y ago
Luckily, you can usually just hit "print this article" for a cleaner and single page version of the same article. Nytimes has a single page option in addition to the print version.
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by alabut 18y ago
Apology accepted and upvoted :) You made a very understandable mistake, the same one that a lot of my friends do whenever I rave about how great New York is. Just because it's the best in several aspects doesn't mean it's the best place to
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by alabut 18y ago
"I think you need to travel more" You're making false assumptions about where I've lived or travelled without refuting my points about New York. I live in San Francisco (the bart+muni+caltrain system here is actually quite horrible - it's i
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by alabut 18y ago
I don't know why this is on HN either but I'm a sucker for anything NY. It's the most usable and creative city on the planet and big part of it is the perfect grid system of its streets and subways. Wayfinding and transportation is a snap a
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by alabut 18y ago
They did demonstrate their UI skills, by deconstructing the logic behind what the TripLog interface was trying to do and showing the logical groupings of related info. Translating that into visuals is simply the next step - scroll down to s
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by alabut 18y ago
Totally agree with the ROWE sentiment - I'm reading the book now and the stories from employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters is just as inspiring as the ideas themselves. If you're in a small enough team to set work culture, then ge
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by alabut 18y ago
I think it's a mistake - the article noted a few others as well: "Exciting as this car seems, I have some qualms about it: For a high end, big investment, the site is fairly amateurish looking, and has multiple typos."
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by alabut 18y ago
This change definitely won't make it a programming language - they're not even real variables, they're more like XSLT's definition of variables. Also known as constants.
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by alabut 18y ago
Best tip ever Paul - having your own personal website where you can try out new styles, programming techniques or even just write about them is critical for a young designer. Or old ones! I don't use my personal site that much anymore (I'll
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by alabut 18y ago
This is an awesome little book and a bit of a secret, probably because the title, color scheme of the cover and relative thinness make it look less like something to be seriously and more of a "design for dummies" book. Not at all - it's a
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by alabut 18y ago
I agree and would go even further - most designers that start out as graphic designers are doomed to fail as web designers and I've rarely seen any that made the transition completely. The high profile people making high bandwidth flashturb

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