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by bglbrg 15y ago
I worked in Amazon warehouses for two summers during college, doing the sorts of tasks described here. The first year there was no A/C. Actually, it wasn't so terrible. The next year there was central air, but by then there was quite a bit
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by bglbrg 15y ago
another vote up for the large scale. It emphasizes the simplicity and I never mind bigger for ui tasks, it's always easier to use.
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by bglbrg 15y ago
I was excited to set up SMS notification for lots of things, but it took ifttt 26 minutes to notify me of an email. Hmmm. Any particular reason for the latency?
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by bglbrg 15y ago
great read. Designers perennially bitch and moan about difficult clients, but when I review my last year of consulting, I can agree with Joshua that the difficult experiences have been _my_ fault. I get to pick my clients, and it's up to me
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by bglbrg 15y ago
Well, if you want potential mothers-in-law to gaze lovingly, consider that they have interacted with physicians and attorneys and know what their value is, as has our society for centuries. Stand up straight, offer eye contact and a warm sm
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by bglbrg 15y ago
Yeah, I don't have any stats at hand but docs-in-training I know seem to see themselves as being somewhere around $200k in hock for all the training. And med. reimbursement is going to a scary place in the US. I worked in a medical practice
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by bglbrg 15y ago
Regarding governance - most ambitious politicians appear to be extroverts. I'm not an engineer but there are many in my family and they're not the most gregarious sort. Is this an inaccurate stereotype? I wonder if despite highly intelligen
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by bglbrg 15y ago
naive is the perfect term. Rutledge's ideas about what news should be are quite naive, in fact. Of course good journalists should adhere to strict ethical standards, but all that stuff about how popularity should have no basis, and that "ed
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by bglbrg 15y ago
You wouldn't want to work for someone who responded to critical thinking with equally critical thinking? I sure would. Rutledge did indeed rant generally in his opening paragraphs a bunch of stuff about poor standards, lack of ethics etc in
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by bglbrg 15y ago
I don't really think it would be sporting to feign appreciation for a critique that starts by declaring your your product "terribly-designed" and concludes with an even less effective design. Perhaps more importantly, if I were current or f
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by bglbrg 15y ago
just curious, knowing that it's designer objects, would you actually be interested? I tend to know a great deal of people who completely fetishize the idea of consuming "good design" from end-to-end. So this type of customer would be deligh
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by bglbrg 15y ago
That's interesting. However, in the design community fab.com seems to be spreading by word of mouth, so in my own case, I signed up eagerly on a recommendation and I don't recall spending any time reading what the landing page said. Is ther
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by bglbrg 15y ago
Ah, you are quite right. Thanks for the clarification. So much for my pronouncements about looking closely ;)
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by bglbrg 15y ago
Speaking as a visual designer, I would advise you that iA's template is heads above, and actually starts you off with the "stunning" typography this template attempts to describe and demonstrate. Type freaks will tell you that the key to se
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by bglbrg 15y ago
heh, that's most certainly not Tekton, which is very recognizable. The script in the figures shown is Zapfino. They're both inspired by hand lettering, but stylistically are nothing alike. It's a pretty crazy error for a post on typographic