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by flyosity 16y ago
Well, to be fair, the original idea wasn't a "crush notifier" it was something more interesting and useful, a breakup notifier. That's what was banned. I'm sure there are a dozen other crush notifiers out there.
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by flyosity 16y ago
I liked the article until the final section where his religious bias seemed to be showing. "We like to think we've arrived at a level of understanding inaccessible to lesser mortals [...] I believe that's why it's easier either to dismiss o
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by flyosity 16y ago
It seems like every "I didn't use Photoshop" article is always showing off a site that... looks like the designer didn't use Photoshop. As a designer who's in Photoshop all day long, knowing when a layout necessitates using Photoshop or not
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by flyosity 16y ago
One thing I've noticed (throughout my career, and by talking to friends in the software industry) is that there seems to be a ceiling on how much you can make as a software engineer at "a company". The exact amount really isn't important, b
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by flyosity 16y ago
It really depends on where you live. $100k in the Bay Area or New York City is a good salary but doesn't go that far after you pay for the exorbitant rent and other high cost of living expenses. Compared to Raleigh, NC (southeast U.S.) wher
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by flyosity 16y ago
That has nothing to do with these new API calls. I'm talking about retina display APIs built into NSImage and additional resolution-independence support using vector resources. All new to Lion.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Many new additions to NSImage internals and new API calls say otherwise...
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by flyosity 16y ago
Actually, Sparrow looks exactly like Tweetie. Their UI is basically a clone of Loren's but with email messages showing instead of tweets.
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by flyosity 16y ago
This is probably a solid idea (I have a friend working on a similar app) but I've gotta say, the user interface looks horrendous. Form fields slapped anywhere, nothing is aligned with anything else, the sizes of UI elements are all over the
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by flyosity 16y ago
Totally agree. I'm a single developer/designer who makes a lot of money from the App Store. A lot of my friends have six figure incomes because of the App Store. When a platform puts money in your account and food on the table, it's a littl
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by flyosity 16y ago
The same people who say SO has "a poor UX" are the same people who say that Reddit has "a poor UX". They're conflating gradients, rounded rectangles and text shadows with a user's experience of the site.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Also: if you're being paid $100k and, in turn, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars of value for your company, you're undervalued and underpaid. The software industry is one of the few industries where a single person can create moun
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Every Phone Looks Like The iPhone(flyosity.com)
2 points by flyosity 16y ago|2 comments
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by flyosity 16y ago
I don't think that's a valid comparison. All watches tell time, but how they tell time varies greatly. I own an automatic Panerai watch ( http://cl.ly/4YkQ ) and it looks completely different from watches that Urwerk ( http://cl.ly/4XvZ )
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by flyosity 16y ago
I'm not sure how much hardware design has to do with a phone's success anymore. After the iPhone came out, every manufacturer now makes phones that are 90% screen. How close are we to hardware design where the bezel around the screen is 1mm
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by flyosity 16y ago
Nice find in the article: the new Pre 3 uses an IPS LCD display like the iPhone 4. I'm sure it's beautiful in person.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Wow, I never peeked at the HN HTML source before but it's pretty terrible. Tables nested within tables, tables used for layout and non-tabular data, CSS only used for colors and fonts. It's such a simple layout that I can't believe they did
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by flyosity 16y ago
My favorite thing in the world is designing & coding software interfaces. I'm sure there are a ton of people out there who look at me the same way you might look at a toilet cleaner :)
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by flyosity 16y ago
What if cleaning toilets is your favorite thing to do in the world? Why start a business (and, ostensibly, pay others to do the thing you love most) when you could just keep on doing it, day after day?
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by flyosity 16y ago
"Warning, there's a storm coming. You should probably put your $800 tablet in a bag so it doesn't get wet."
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by flyosity 16y ago
Good luck minifying/compressing your JavaScript files without using semicolons. There's nothing I hate more than finding a promising jQuery plugin and when I integrate it into our JS minifying processes it blows up because they left semicol
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by flyosity 16y ago
Ha, funny seeing this on Hacker News. I live a half mile from the intersections they're talking about. Will definitely need to drive by and do some "unlicensed engineering" of my own.
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by flyosity 16y ago
I do UI engineering as well. Wireframes/UX diagrams -> high-fidelity mockups -> full implementation of the UI (Cocoa/Obj-C or HTML/CSS/JS). It's nice to do both ends as I can think about implementation as I design and start thinking
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by flyosity 16y ago
I'm a UI designer who works on web apps during the day and Mac/iOS apps at night, and, in my experience, designing APPS compared to designing WEBSITES makes you far more marketable. And you make a ton more money. I don't do much iOS UI work
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by flyosity 16y ago
I heard they drastically downplayed their well-known chimp branding and color palette because they'll soon be making a big play into a white-labeled offering which will be totally without branding and customizable. This site redesign is the
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by flyosity 16y ago
Bronto Software - Durham, NC (remote is possible) We build complex marketing software. PHP on the frontend (Zend Framework and custom components) and Hadoop/Cassandra on the backend. Lots of huge data challenges & tons of servers. You'd
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by flyosity 16y ago
I believe the scrolling issues are tied to their use of position: fixed for the sidebar where that DIV has its own internally scrollable frame via overflow: scroll. The combination of those two are taxing on the browser's overall layout sys
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by flyosity 16y ago
Which would mean the PPI is lower than the "retina display" minimum that Steve Jobs talked about when the iPhone 4 debuted. I wonder if they'll still call it a retina display?
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by flyosity 16y ago
It's the cycle that kills Apple's competitors in the consumer market: 1) Apple sells millions of a brand new device, 2) this allows Apple to order millions of components, 3) cheap components drive down Apple's costs, 4) Apple can then lower
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by flyosity 16y ago
Most people couldn't imagine the iPhone 4's retina display either, but Apple did it. I used to doubt Apple's engineering capabilities, but not anymore. I wouldn't put anything past them. The display that the iPhone 4 has didn't exist till i

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