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by blankenship 14y ago
Or you could simply have the managers confront the offending employees one on one instead of blanketing your whole staff with a policy change... A company culture where the slack of certain employees gets discussed in a boardroom and the so
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by blankenship 14y ago
Exactly. Too much narrow focus on the fear of waking up before 5am. I'm on something akin to the 11:30pm -> Up at 7am schedule and most days I’m too tired to even make it to 11:30pm. It's a very good thing.
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by blankenship 15y ago
It's the people—I rarely use the filters, but I enjoy sharing photos with the people I know (and am getting to know) on Instagram.
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by blankenship 15y ago
"Very green" is a bit of a misnomer here—Porter's been the CEO of OMGPOP since 2009, and was a SVP at Richard Branson's Virgin Group before that. "Moment of weakness" maybe, but not from an inexperienced guy.
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by blankenship 15y ago
The company currently uses GoDudu.com for its website, so this is a much needed upgrade. "Much needed"? If that domain doesn't bring them $1mil in profit, questionable. (Although godudu.com does have a certain English-speaking ring to it.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Proof that moderation is still key. Sitting all day is horrible for your health. Standing all day is horrible for your health. Laying down all day is horrible for your health. The human body was made to move.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Just as a point of clarification, Facebook has an incredible existing product design team, but the last year's new hires/acquisitions have yet to prove if all the new blood adds up to the best, e.g. just because you hire a bunch of amazing
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by blankenship 15y ago
If this solves the horrendous, inconsistent multiple account login issue from the last major rollout, then I'm willing to suffer wasted space and more clicks.
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by blankenship 15y ago
HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible. Is it? HR strategy should maximize ROI and minimize financial risk regarding your team, but that doesn't necessary mean hiring someone for the least amount possible. Getting t
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by blankenship 15y ago
I'm suspicious when any startup makes this claim, not because I don't think they legitimately mean it (at the time), but because it rarely ends up being the case as markets, situations, products and lives change.
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by blankenship 15y ago
They're not art (typically) they're design—they exist to solve a problem. They're not all trash, sometimes they're rather brilliant solutions to selling a product or service or experience (of course they're still selling). Don't fall into t
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by blankenship 15y ago
No reason, but personally-speaking, Rdio is one of the few apps I pay for every month that I appreciate so much and get so much value out of that I'll happily keep paying for it. I haven't opened iTunes (apart from syncing my phone) since R
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Hacking a Letterpress to Print on Premade Boxes(vimeo.com)
1 points by blankenship 15y ago|0 comments
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by blankenship 15y ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with the premise, the author is starting with outlier examples and applying a cause/effect relationship in a global way, ignoring the other factors for their outlier success. It's lazy journalism at best.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Michael Wolfe answered this perfectly on Quora: Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: There would be a folder. You'd put your stuff in it. It would sync. They built that.
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by blankenship 15y ago
That's what I kept thinking the whole night. Like, dude, have you actually listened to Herbie Hancock any time recently? He hasn't played with Miles in 45 years. LET IT GO.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Totally agreed. I can't say I particularly enjoyed the set either—but it wasn't because it wasn't what I expected, it was because it wasn't as good as I expected it to be.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Surely a coder can have a good idea about how to lay out a decent interface My experience says mostly no. They're different skillsets. Occasionally they overlap in an individual.
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by blankenship 15y ago
Absolutely agreed. If I was doing 40+ hours a week of client work, I'd have the margin (and financial need) to work with multiple clients in any given season. But in addition to a full-time gig, I just can't swing it. Most the work I take o
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by blankenship 15y ago
> [The] crucial decisions haven't been "do this" so much as they have been "don't do this, don't do that." Miles Davis' players often commented that he never told them what to play, but he'd frequently tell them what not to play. Much m
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by blankenship 15y ago
"because [visual design is] so easy to pick up by cruising Dribbble for inspiration" It is?
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by blankenship 15y ago
It's not impossible at all; I closed my account last year. https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63
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by blankenship 16y ago
Yes, for two main reasons: 1. Can they write/communicate well? e.g. flow, cohesive thought, attention to detail, proofing 2. Can they follow simple instructions? e.g. if asked for in the job posting, did they include a cover letter?
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by blankenship 16y ago
Unfortunately, Virb doesn't let you customize 404 pages very well. http://help.virb.com/discussions/general/1970-custom-404-pag... But I'll see what I can wrangle.
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by blankenship 16y ago
Killed. Don't launch things on too little sleep or YIKES makes its way into the public eye.
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by blankenship 16y ago
Fixed.
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by blankenship 16y ago
Jump on that offer quick.
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by blankenship 16y ago
I've been a Netflix customer since 2002. Every time I attempt to use Hulu for anything other than the handful of current TV shows I watch (Fringe, Community, Chuck) I'm woefully disappointed in their offerings. But more than that I'm frustr
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by blankenship 16y ago
I'm going to guess I'm in the HN minority—Design Director for a Southern East Coast church.