awesomerobot

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by awesomerobot 11y ago
Kik has over $100mil in funding and what, 100+ employees? the $30k response seemed intentionally pointed to highlight the kind of two-faced nature of the situation. Kik will apparently throw around their perceived worth and size to threaten
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
Where does it end? An individual working on an open-sourced project has to get strong-armed out of a 3-letter name because a corporation paid for it? Isn't that concept a little ludicrous in its own right? Could this eventually end up
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
RSS Pedantry
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
It needs to change, but don't forget that without it our illiteracy rates were ridiculous.
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
Also FWIW most states are at-will employment, and can fire you for no reason
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
That's questionable though — there are a lot of people switching over to Sketch who were previously in Photoshop, and while Photoshop may have never been the right tool for interface design work... plenty of Photoshop users were willin
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
That's not true at all! Photoshop's UI is awful — their strategy is essentially "space shuttle cockpit." A bunch of mono-colored tools with anachronistic icons (ask anyone under 20 what the burn tool icon means — or even
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
I understand why people are upset — but let's not pretend that Adobe's interfaces have ever been able to pass any usability tests.
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
Life isn't all about productivity, but it's an interesting question.
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
If someone mourns for a death do you just say "well everyone dies, suck it up?" — no, because that's ridiculous. So when someone is being harassed why say "it happens to everyone so get over it"? Why go out of your
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
that's not how companies and foundations function What? If a co-worker started disparaging me on Facebook and sharing private chat logs publicly... they'd be reprimanded at the very least, and if the behavior continued they&#x27
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by awesomerobot 11y ago
It seems weird to say "this shitty thing happens to me too" and instead of commiserating and saying "this shitty thing shouldn't happen to anyone" you essentially say "stop complaining."
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by awesomerobot 12y ago
You also have to consider the other party was subtweeting all day and calling people dicknoses.
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by awesomerobot 12y ago
Though he did manage to find the time to berate and poke fun at the project on twitter all day.
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by awesomerobot 13y ago
They're entirely capable of not talking about them, sure... but are they really setting aside their entire moral fiber when they clock in?
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by awesomerobot 13y ago
That's not always what it means - but it's very often how the average person pushes it. As Barbara Ehrenreich points out in her book "Bright-Sided", insisting someone has to "think positively" isn't going
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by awesomerobot 13y ago
In my experience as a designer that changes very little - In reality it can often mean you did a whole lot of upfront work just to have it change anyway. You can put 100 UX experts in the product design phase and users will still have compl