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by jongold 14y ago
Ruining the game for everyone; two things I love about Helvetica — Terminals at right angles to the stroke. http://c.jon.gd/image/3Q0y2u323j3C . Arial looks particularly sloppy with jaunty terminals. It is possible to have a similar grote
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by jongold 14y ago
Been following Andrew for years; this is great news. For those of you who only know him for the Microsoft branding I highly recommend you read the rest of his blog. I think he's the most promising industrial designer of our generation; the
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by jongold 14y ago
— Original poster should have basic social skills but DOESN'T. Worst poster ever.
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by jongold 14y ago
Been having some great conversations about design recently; great to see Branch open to all. http://branch.com/g/design-startups
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But what will people use Lift for now?!
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by jongold 14y ago
Totally agree; been guilty of it myself in the past. Getting the perfect modular golden-ratio-derived grid is less important than shipping, but being excellent is better than being good . Designer culture in startups is still relatively ne
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by jongold 14y ago
Are people who think designers are crazy, crazy? Not to be a dick but the other day with the WP-Svbtle thing you demonstrated you don't understand principles of design. That's cool; you don't have to. But this is just trolling man.
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by jongold 14y ago
+1 for Steven Pressfield. I read Turning Pro first after this excerpt on 99u and loved it; The War of Art was cool too but kind of cringey & self-helpy in places. http://99u.com/articles/7192/Are-You-Trapped-in-a-Shadow-Car...
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by jongold 14y ago
Totally wrong. Svbtle is a brand. It's a minimalist layout, but copying it intrinsically suggests misleading your readers. You wouldn't make your new tech blog have the same theme as TNW or TechCrunch, and you wouldn't theme your Telescope
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Some other useful links (I think I found them in the Reddit post) http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai... http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai... and a great video http://www.magnificentm
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Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine(joel.is)
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by jongold 14y ago
Congrats Nathan - really appreciate the openness & honesty :)
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by jongold 14y ago
Important question: were any of the billion Gangnam Style views faked?
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by jongold 14y ago
Partially agree. A couple of points: - I like how he shows integration with a couple of different backends (Sinatra & Node). Makes it more practical and 'real world' than just 'assume we have this bit of JSON to work with'. - As other p
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by jongold 14y ago
Being a programmer doesn't mean you have to be excited by programming languages in and of themselves; and not wanting to learning Haskell doesn't make you a 'mediocre programmer', it just means you have different fascinations than those tha
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by jongold 14y ago
Where's the mindblowing UI experience?
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by jongold 14y ago
Starting Strength is the way to go. Reddit, 4chan and SomethingAwful all have fantastic weightlifting communities; has really helped me cut through the BS you get fed by Men's Health etc.
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better than vaporware
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by jongold 14y ago
You mean a new Mac email client that isn't just a LaunchRock signup page & some tasteful Dribbble shots? Amazing :)
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by jongold 14y ago
It fails because it's been designed by idiots, not because it's 'flat'
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by jongold 14y ago
I hope y'all have Home Alone on DVD…
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by jongold 14y ago
I have a popular list of great landing pages on Kippt here - https://kippt.com/jg/beautiful-landing-pages
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Front-end London: A new, free meetup hosted by MadeByMany(frontendlondon.co.uk)
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by jongold 14y ago
"But is it better for me to get started and end up with messy code, or to not start because I want things to be correct or good?" Ruby looks good without any effort.
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by jongold 14y ago
Haven't used Behance for quite a while, but it would be awesome if it got integrated into Creative Suite (think Kuler). Great news & congratulations all involved.
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by jongold 14y ago
As with everything on that blog: total BS. Flat design isn't an 'aesthetic'; it's the result of considered design thinking. Picking 'flat design style' instead of x or y 'design style' is to cheapen yourself as a designer to the level of an
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by jongold 14y ago
Just taking a second to thank you for all your work on Marionette, and your seemingly endless contributions to Backbone/Marionette questions on StackOverflow Derick - I'm nowhere near the level to be contributing to Marionette but your humb
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Absolutely - wish I'd actually done this in school for every subject; always thought I was too good to write notes but now seeing the value of it.
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Interested to see how people rock GTD with Trello in practice - does anyone have a non-sensitive task list they could share? How do you manage contexts? Do you have one board for work & home? Do you map it 1:1 to your kanban board at
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Ask HN: Resources for microcopy best practices?
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