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   by jongold 13y ago

   Fucking hell that's an awful post. Lean Startup is great but you should realise the value of investing in good design. Don't go down a rabbit hole of 'big vision' design perfection straight away, sure (a $50k set of Phot
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   by jongold 13y ago

   Isn't this—kind of—what iDoneThis and Lift are trying to solve? My problem even with them is if I'm in an unproductive rut I won't bother checking in on them.
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   by jongold 13y ago

   I'm looking forward to catching it. I know the history; I want to see it dramatised. I mean, I even enjoyed Pirates of Silicon Valley…
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   by jongold 13y ago

   Totally misplaced anger by non-techies - the housing problem in SF is down to the planning restrictions.
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   by jongold 13y ago

   Good stuff - just added Makeshift :) Such an exciting time to be in London; the scene here is kicking ass right now!
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   Make It Count(csswizardry.com)

   7 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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   by jongold 13y ago

   Interesting book but confusing advice from someone who seemingly knows what he's talking about. The very first chapter starts with three hyphenated lines in a row! I’m imaging my typography professors facepalming right now… http:&#x2F
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   by jongold 13y ago

   For a good font—not some crap on DaFont—you're talking many, many thousands of hours. Often just one person's labour, often by eye. Software makes it a little bit easier, but you're still kerning every single possible charact
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   by jongold 13y ago

   I know EDITD are looking for talented people — http://editd.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer/
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Good point - quite possibly, depending on the mix of how you describe yourself (e.g. if you just copy your Twitter bio), the sum of the people you choose to endorse you, and the density of the people with your skillset in your social graph&
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    by jongold 13y ago

    The first few very, very early prototypes were built because I, then my girlfriend, then some of my closest friends were in the situation where they needed something like this - so I'm quite passionate about making it work :) That&#x27
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    by jongold 13y ago

    That's really helpful, thanks :)
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Beaten by the buzzer! Congratulations to your friend; if you feel like kicking the tires and looking for a new job we'd love to have you sign up!
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    by jongold 13y ago

    It's a hangover from a previous iteration of the design - we were generating names with ffaker and then doing a strikethrough, but in reality it was confusing users rather than being a funny aesthetic touch. In the interests of getting
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    by jongold 13y ago

    btw not sure if anyone spotted it, but we came up with a high-tech solution for keeping out recruiter spam (god forbid this turns into the LRUG mailing list…). What do you reckon? http://c.jon.gd/image/1u013o34073u
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    by jongold 13y ago

    That's a really great idea, thanks :) This has been a crazy rush to get the product launched as-is (and there's a whole bunch of hypotheses we want to validate right now anyway), but working more on the employer side is definitely
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    by jongold 13y ago

    We've been using Twitter auth for all of our apps at @makeshiftHQ just out of convenience; some rely on it for core functionality more than others. In the case of HireMyFriend we put in Twitter auth as a precursor to building a 's
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Thanks Scott :)
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Thanks — we'll take another pass at the logo this sprint :) btw if you're interested in that kinda thing the logo is based on a heavily reworked Candy Script by the amazing Sudtipos http://sudtipos.com/fonts/9
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Absolutely agree — I think that's the most important thing we want to test with this iteration :) I'd think that people would choose the professional connections they trust rather than their stoner roommate from college, but the
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    Want a new job but don’t want to alert your boss? HireMyFriend may be for you(thenextweb.com)

    8 points by jongold 13y ago|0 comments
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Why was he working as a security guard instead of writing programs?
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    by jongold 13y ago

    There are multiple pages :)
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Nice post - Sketch is revolutionising UI design workflow. Really well thought out product — we've standardised on it for all our products at work, and I haven't even installed and Adobe products on my newest laptop, 8 months in. I
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Not wanting to proselytize on a failure but presumably 15 minutes of graphic design input on the video thumbnail would have helped the Kickstarter pitch?
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Not at the moment — we wanted to build the best possible user experience for buying & selling items rather than creating a marketplace/destination site, but that could definitely be on the cards for the new CEO :)
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Hey HN - designer/dev who worked on Bitsy here; happy to answer any questions :)
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Yup, but it's super abstracted — I run the London Meteor meetup but still have no idea how Fibers work :) I've now written a couple of production apps with Meteor but it always feels like I'm writing frontend JS with a magica
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    by jongold 13y ago

    Have you got Cleartype disabled?
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    by jongold 13y ago

    It's a site for a JavaScript framework — that's like saying Dribbble should work with images disabled.