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by calinet6 11y ago
So much is possible within that convention, though. So much. The best poets (different for each of us) somehow surpass the impossibility of using language to express true humanity, and do it anyway.
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by calinet6 11y ago
So much in the space of folk (of many cultures), your examples are closer to that than most other music. Indeed some of the best music out there melds the poetry perfectly with the music. It's an art that doesn't exist if either p
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by calinet6 11y ago
I was struck by this also. Why would you release a brand new font that you plan to spread widely and use in all your products, and set the announcement in a different typeface? Makes no sense.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Anecdotally, I have to agree with the post above. Been to dozens of malls in the past couple years, and they do in fact seem to be thriving. Perhaps the indoor mall is more preferred in the northeast where I've explored most, as the co
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by calinet6 11y ago
It's a collaborative sketching tool; not a collaborative mockup tool. It remains flexible enough to play with visual concepts outside the restrictions of a UI kit. That's a good thing in my book. I've actually been looking
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by calinet6 11y ago
As a member of a totally distributed UX team, yes. We've been looking for just a simple whiteboarding tool that updates live, supports a pen tablet, and lets us collaborate around any rough UI language. We haven't found any that h
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by calinet6 11y ago
The images are full of fluff. The bottles are only one step in the process described in the section after that, which includes a dozen or so complex steps, each of which must be executed perfectly. Doesn't look simple.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Ask Oppenheimer, after the first atomic bomb test, if morality is above science. "We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was extremely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people l
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by calinet6 11y ago
This is fumbling about a logical explanation to explain the difference between a logical field and a humanistic field. It's far easier to say that these are two different worlds of truth; one is more quantitative, the other is more qua
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by calinet6 11y ago
This, and most of the other arguments in the whole thread, are so highly simplistic. The links between science and humanity are many and complex, and vice versa. There is no winner, there is no right side. They build on each other, enhance
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by calinet6 11y ago
This is why the liberal arts are, in fact, so critically important. It's difficult to understand the beauty of knowledge and science without also understanding it's humanity, and conversely, it's difficult to fully understand
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by calinet6 11y ago
I always thought it was a very simple relative size illusion. When placed next to objects on the horizon that provide a relative measuring stick of size, we perceive the moon as large in comparison. When the moon is high and we instead have
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by calinet6 11y ago
Eh. Sometimes you need a specific burrito.
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by calinet6 11y ago
That's why people deal with traffic in LA. People there really do value time differently. Just living is pretty darn good—your time doesn't have to be for something, it is what it is, and you enjoy it. Stereotypically, 'goi
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by calinet6 11y ago
They're certainly related. If the economy has any rightness in it at all, it has shown us that California is valuable. People put up with all manner of hardship just to carry out their lives in that location. Traffic is an effect of
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by calinet6 11y ago
I grew up both close enough and far enough that I always hated LA—hated going there, hated the traffic, the city busy-ness, the randomness and amorphousness that was both easy and difficult to describe. I hated it so much so that I began to
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by calinet6 11y ago
That's the entire point: no one can possibly prove or disprove that open office plans are a significant contributing factor to company success, or if they're just correlated, or if they're entirely irrelevant. Yet the popular
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by calinet6 11y ago
Surely their success also had something to do with their work and culture when they had more than 10 employees.
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by calinet6 11y ago
For all you know, it could be a successful attempt. It's extremely difficult to determine causality in a highly complex system such as a company. That's the point, and that's why I posed the question.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Suffices to say that it is difficult to determine a correlation either way, which was exactly my point.
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by calinet6 11y ago
That was my point. There are a lot of things that we measure (eg: productivity) when we should actually be looking at larger goals. In this case, an open office creates a certain type of culture and work environment. That might be desirable
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by calinet6 11y ago
There are good and bad implementations of every system. That sounds like a bad one.
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by calinet6 11y ago
We get it, HN is majority introvert, and really likes logical optimization using data. But some things aren't easily measurable. Is it a coincidence that companies who pioneered the open office plan are also some of the most successful
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by calinet6 11y ago
Not to rain on this parade, but I think we're a long way off from having a generic method to 3D print a wide variety of things that are of useful and respectable quality. It's kind of like generic programming frameworks: the more
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by calinet6 11y ago
Ha, I'll try to pass it on. Patagonia has a lot of roots in Bozeman. I remember visiting once, and they had a warehouse and office of about 10 people for a period in the 90's. Good folks. They tend to value the places that matter.
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I think above all they set out to make great products, period. Yvon seemed to put money second, or at least realized that it was a side-effect of doing the right thing. There was internal debate about "Don't Buy This Jacket."
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by calinet6 11y ago
In my experience his influence was strong but well delegated. The culture and leadership of the company was more important, and would live on without him. There are a lot of people who were attracted to Patagonia because of the way it was r
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by calinet6 11y ago
The wild part, in the grand scheme of things, is that their message is significantly true. They're not convincing consumers that they're being anti-consumers; they're actually consuming less by buying more durable goods tha
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by calinet6 11y ago
Yes, that's the critical paradox: the things that are more measurable or easier to measure are the things that are done, despite them having less impact on quality than things that are difficult to measure or unmeasurable. Deming said
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by calinet6 11y ago
The main issue is that "PayPal Credit" and "PayPal Balance" are nearly indiscernible concepts to the end user, and could cause you to sign up for the "credit" when you really just meant to use your "credit

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