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by jaimzob 15y ago
Awesome! So much better than yet another "reverse this binary tree" non-question.
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by jaimzob 15y ago
The problem with tech interviews is that we tend to debug candidates rather than interview them, which leads to this confrontational, almost antagonistic pop-quiz process. An interview should be a conversation - sure you're trying to as
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by jaimzob 15y ago
Honest question: as someone who dropped Linux in favour of OSX largely to get a nicer user experience, what is in the new generation of Linux desktops to tempt me back? The videos linked from the article show a Spaces'esk virtual desktop an
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by jaimzob 15y ago
+1 for TaskPaper. A brilliant piece of attuned, economical UI design.
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by jaimzob 16y ago
Looks very cool but are there particular advantages over, say, Scribe over FreePastry ( http://www.freepastry.org/SCRIBE/default.htm )? How does routing efficiency compare?
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by jaimzob 16y ago
"About Face" by Alan Cooper is far-and-away the best book I've read on interaction design. Don Norman's books are also worth a read (though more difficult to immediately apply to creating software). For general visual design "The Non-Design
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by jaimzob 16y ago
The Butt-Ugly Fish Book has a great section on this: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp... In fact it's filled with great sections - go read it if you haven't.
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by jaimzob 16y ago
Then it sounds like you've known some asshole executives and consultants that have completely misread this book. Cooper's point was that, sans any other guidance, programmers naturally tend to create interfaces that reflect the structure of
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by jaimzob 16y ago
Not sure why you're being down voted but I got exactly the same impression. I'm usually a big Zed fan, and Mongrel2 looks great, but I think he's totally misread Cooper's book here.
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by jaimzob 16y ago
"The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams is the best introductory book I've read. As the title suggests, it covers the fundamentals - proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast - in a really approachable way. It probably won't
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by jaimzob 16y ago
My point is that, as you’ve ably demonstrated, there are innumerable sites I can go to to indulge in juvenile tech tribalism. OSNews used to be a cut above these sites but it doesn’t seem to be any more. I think that’s a shame. With regard
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by jaimzob 16y ago
What happened to OSNews? I remember it being a pretty good tech news site a while back but now it seems that every day there's another over-written, hyper-ventilating, peanut-gallery-baiting "opinion piece" like this. Good for selling ad im
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by jaimzob 16y ago
Jesus wept, it's a _joke_ for christ's sake. And I find it far preferable, and far more human, than the insufferably superior tone of this blog post.