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by cschmidt 13y ago
Ryokan hotels are clearly the business to be in, if you're in it for the long term.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
They do log into people's email accounts, to see the address book. They are saying they have permission, and I'm sure they do in a strict, legal sense, if you read all their TOS. The issue is that they are trying to get as many pe
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The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir(pgbovine.net)
2 points by cschmidt 13y ago|0 comments
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by cschmidt 13y ago
>By being in the open plan yourself, you're sending a strong message that there is no way offices will be tolerated, so there isn't any point in asking. Sorry, Zack. When I read your post, I took you to be the CEO, like Joel, s
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you asked your developers point blank if they'd like a nice office with a door, they would. If you asked any developer who has actually had an office at a previous job, and I'm 100% sure they'd
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I got into dubstep for the same reason. In a quiet office, I like listening to classical. But you can't use something with quiet parts for distraction. So now I listen to EDM, with a more consistent volume level. It gives me something
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll try to tone it down a bit in the real site. I just did the teaser site quite quickly to collect emails, before a conference I was talking at.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I appreciate what you're trying to say. People hire someone based on something shiny they see on Dribble, and they get something shallow and shiny as a result. However, in my case, there was actually a lot more thought about the feel I
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It was a good process. My designer was quick, responsive, fairly priced, and came up with what I think is a great logo. I'm very happy with it, and I consistently get positive feedback ('cool robot'). What do you think: ht
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I hired my logo designer off of Dribbble, with excellent results. It probably is less of a problem for logo design, than for something like UX or UI.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
This is one of those puzzles that just begs you to use Mathematica: In[20]:= Select[Map[FromDigits, Partition[RealDigits[N[E, 500], 10][[1]], 10, 1]], PrimeQ][[1]] Out[20]= 7427466391
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by cschmidt 13y ago
There's a new PragProg book out about this language. book: http://pragprog.com/news/programming-sound-with-pure-data-ma... screencast: http://pragprog.com/book/thsound/programming-sound-w
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Pure Data: a visual data flow programming language for audio, video, graphics(puredata.info)
1 points by cschmidt 13y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 13y ago
They're not uploaded from the phone (in theory at least).
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Right, that was a font designed by a programmer. This is a font designed by a professional type designer. (Proxima Nova is quite famous.)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
> Personally I don't think there is an intern named Max who did that (most likely an agency) Well, Max Ma does seem to be a real guy, who's claiming the motion graphics on his personal website: http://maxmadesign.com
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by cschmidt 13y ago
So sad. So instead of hiring anyone, the CEO did it herself (with some internal designers). The $0 logo. Not too surprising it won't do much in terms of rebranding.
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New Logo for Yahoo Designed In-House: 30 Days for This?(underconsideration.com)
2 points by cschmidt 13y ago|0 comments
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Traditional (i.e. Paul Rand era) logo design was trying to distill a company down to a minimal essence. Having bevels leaves in a decorative element that makes in non-minimal. That it should look good in 1 color is fundamental to tradition
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It has 3d bevels, if you look closely. That makes it look a bit dated, although just being flat to be trendy wouldn't be good either.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It is a better shade of purple. The bevel is kind of gross, and I'm just left a bit disappointed. A missed opportunity to do something great.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I was thinking that Yahoo should hire Jessica Hische for the redesign. I think they'll go with a typographic logo, and who could be better? She could do a great script Yahoo.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think Paul Rand would turn in his grave at the thought of "Thinking of a new logo? Don’t guess; test." There is a lot more to logo design than having a first impression test well. I really do hope they hired someone good to do t
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Good point. I was admitted to the University of Michigan in engineering, where I majored in chemical engineering, despite having never done any chemical engineering in my life. That applies to most engineering. How many students in mechani
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Remember that factoring primes isn't know to be NP Hard. There is no complexity breakthrough required, we just don't know how to do it quickly. So we don't get P=NP from any factoring breakthrough.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's not their real new logo. They are doing "30 days of change", where they use a different logo each day, leading up to the real on one on Sept 5. The OP is the day 24 logo. http://www.yahoo.com/dailyl
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Unrelated to the OP, but I thought "Oh like Olin College." It was an engineering college founded in 1997 that had free tuition until recently. (It still is half price.) It attracts the best and brightest. Great school.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
As others have said, I think most developers would take a nice, quiet office. Given the horrible open plan office I currently work in, you need some way to drown out other people "collaborating", so headphones it is. Sometimes I
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by cschmidt 13y ago
> what happens to all the thousands we spent on dslr glass... Well, if you don't wait too long, you can get a lot of it back. I sold my D700 + glass, and made $3300, which I used to buy a lovely OM-D system (12, 20, 25, 45, 75). I u
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by cschmidt 13y ago
For me going from a D700 to an OM-D, the biggest benefit was the much smaller size. And much of that size was in the lenses, not the bodies. The m4/3 lenses are so wonderfully small, after hauling around a 24-70/2.8 for so long.

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