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by kadavy 15y ago
I think you're implying that putting up a slide with a faceless person on it and calling them a "bitch" is inherently morally objectionable? If so, I wouldn't agree with that. Louis CK called his 4 year old daughter a "bitch" [0] on stage,
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by kadavy 15y ago
I came here to say this. Why do we use this word? I prefer the word "database" to "douchebag."
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by kadavy 15y ago
This is going to be a very biased comment because Noah is a close personal friend of mine. Noah will generally be the same guy while talking to your parents as he is having a beer with close friends: direct, open, and sometimes irreverent.
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by kadavy 15y ago
That's a great progression you've outlined there (and looking at your work, it has clearly worked well). I think the whole process will go more smoothly if there is a framework within which to make those observations. Understanding the phil
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by kadavy 15y ago
Thanks! :)
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by kadavy 15y ago
He seems so tired. Get well Steve. Beautiful building!
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by kadavy 15y ago
Warren invests in what he knows. The fact that he doesn't buy technology stocks is more likely due to the fact that he doesn't know much about technology. At this year's shareholder's meeting, someone asked him and his business partner, Cha
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by kadavy 15y ago
I make a couple thousand a month selling affiliate iPod transfer software on a popular post on my blog. An online dating tips blog that I started over 3 years ago under a pseudonym very recently started bringing in a few thousand a month fr
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by kadavy 15y ago
Sometimes, if you've recently met the person, it's just good to send a "nice to meet you" follow-up with no ask at all. You're very likely to get a response, and once the response has been made, you can make the simple ask (once they've res
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by kadavy 15y ago
Caps happen to be a good form of typographic differentiation in cases where other forms of emphasis (such as bold or italics) are unavailable. But, some people may feel otherwise. The Romans used caps. In fact, that was all that they used.
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by kadavy 15y ago
I was just writing a bit about realism for my book the other day. Interfaces, such as Mac OS X's Aqua, actually represent a sort of "hyperrealism," with buttons that are impossibly juicy, reflective, and glowing. It's funny, because interfa
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by kadavy 15y ago
Oops, sorry - I hadn't considered that someone would think that.
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Shown HN: Design for Hackers (draft)
48 points by kadavy 15y ago|9 comments
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by kadavy 15y ago
True. Bonobos are more closely related to humans. There's some incredibly fascinating information about how humans are related to bonobos in sexual behavior (and overall communal behavior) in the book Sex at Dawn . Highly recommended.
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by kadavy 15y ago
I'm really shocked that it took them that long to hire an assistant. It would be very difficult to think creatively with all of those trivial concerns in one's head.
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by kadavy 15y ago
As someone who is "finally" starting to find success in my early 30's, this is something I think of a lot. Think of all of the famous people you know of, who are doing great work right now. Now look at how old some of them are. Steve Carrel
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by kadavy 15y ago
Nice opportunity for Apple to use the iPad as an entry-point for customers. It worked for the iPod, which I think made a lot of people more comfortable with the idea of using Apple products; and probably prompted many people's first MacBook
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by kadavy 15y ago
I practically have my coffee shop productivity down to a science. I have certain places for brainstorming, certain places for when I want some quiet & solitude, & certain places for when I want to feel relaxed vs. focused. I've writ
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The Importance of Design in Business(particletree.com)
2 points by kadavy 16y ago|0 comments
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by kadavy 16y ago
Kadavy, Inc., it's just me, and started as a UI consultancy in 2008. Now it's a media company. I'm writing a book on design http://designforhackers.com Based on blog posts at http://kadavy.net I live in Lincoln Park at Clark & Fulle
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by kadavy 16y ago
I think it's great to encourage designers to be founders. The arguments against commodification of design (i.e. crowdsourcing) usually include that it "devalues design." I think more designers should take advantage of the incredible value t
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by kadavy 16y ago
A Salon des Refusés, if you will? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refus%C3%A9s
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by kadavy 16y ago
Checking stats on something (how many followers someone has, or how many views a video has) is definitely a useful heuristic for deciding if something is worthy of your ever-more-precious attention. They call this "social proof."
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by kadavy 16y ago
That's a pretty cool little toy! I think the trailer should be flipped upside down: start with playing it, then explaining how it works. It's cool that there are few controls, but starting off by talking about the battery compartment isn't
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"noosphere": collective human consciousness affects random number generators(youtube.com)
1 points by kadavy 16y ago|0 comments
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by kadavy 16y ago
Maybe load it up on a Chumby? http://chumby.com
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by kadavy 16y ago
This was really interesting to play with. I kept getting caught up cognitively on the fact that the thumb corresponded to the 5th box in all of the chord diagrams. I feel like some visual differentiation would have made that easier to grok.
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by kadavy 16y ago
I agree. (thanks :)
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by kadavy 16y ago
I sure hope they don't succeed in making tongue-scraping a requirement. I of course brush my tongue and floss regularly, but I hope it never gets to the point where I have to be ashamed of not having a special device explicitly for scrapin
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by kadavy 16y ago
If you are, indeed, in mutual love, then you should be very thankful. I personally can be more focused while I'm working when I am in a relationship, so I would see it as a benefit. When I'm not in a relationship, there often seems to be th

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