paulojreis

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by paulojreis 11y ago
Actually, I was talking about this kind of too-deliberate-to-be-true and trying-too-hard-to-look-cool atmosphere at Microsoft events, not about Bryan Roper's style in particular.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Which is something I really don't get, at all. This all looks and sounds way much nerd -ier just because they try so desperately to look cool.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
The impression I have, in the humble projects and companies I work with, is that it's more related to the decision-makers. So many features are added based on whims, decided on meeting rooms and based on engineers or managers gut feeli
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> As he says, robots are the best workers. That's not a statement that can be made universally, I think. They're way better in scenarios which tend to be deterministic, but otherwise not so much (e.g. when there's more int
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Based on my experience, this reeks of management imposing their design decisions (i.e. the buzzwords of the year) on designers and their work.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
No they don't. But that doesn't answer the real question here: is the new UI better enough to outweigh the amount of time and productivity so many people will lose while adapting?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
That matter costs time and money. It's a real problem; for many people, Photoshop is their main work tool. Changing it has a cost.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I think the issue is not a good UI going bad . Rather, it's a familiar UI going unfamiliar . I can use Ps with my eyes closed, and it's software aimed for professional usage. Changing the UI means I'm losing hours and h
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Location: Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Discussable Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Frameworks: Backbone.js, AngularJS. Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt, Gulp) Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/tF0qjH Email: [My HN
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'd say that definition defines the outcome of design, not design itself. I focused on the "process" deliberately, because most design work happens outside whatever tool you use to externalize your plan/vision. It&#x
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by paulojreis 11y ago
You're right. The process of making form follow function, maybe?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
As with all design, it's not about making it look nice.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
So, where's the enterprise bus? :)
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I didn't mean to talk about the field in general. Computer science is, beyond doubt, "degree deserving knowledge". I just meant that most IT jobs don't require such knowledge and, in my opinion, would benefit from a more
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I can see your point, but I believe this roughly depends on the education level we're talking about. I did my degree quite a few years ago, but finished my PhD last year. At least in the higher-level, when "learning" isn&#x27
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Maybe I'm wrong - and I kind of hope I am, as there's a noble motive behind this movement - but I always feel that people are focusing too much on IT and the stories of a guy who became a full-blown IT professional learning by him
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Yes, of course. My intuition would be the same. But that doesn't mean that the only point of a university is to guarantee exclusiveness/selection and accreditation.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'm not U.S. based, so I don't have a total understanding of the whole "prestigious" university vs. community college debate. However, I find it hard to believe that they teach basically the same thing. I'd believe
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I wouldn't say that the substance of e.g. a M.D. degree comes "second". Maybe you're focusing too much on IT?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
That's my setup, essentially. Chrome as my 'dev' browser, as I'm too familiar with its devs tools. Another nice thing about having a browser only for development is that, when you're demo'ing, there's less
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I see your point, it makes sense. But I have to note that in gulp (at least) you aren't restricted to plug-ins. You can use "generic" npm packages, as long as they output a stream (e.g. browserify).
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Maybe it is. But, on the other hand, it's a nice example because it makes you wonder: if companies who've been making webcams are failing so much in security, what should we expect from companies making products which aren't
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Completely agree. Comparing these numbers doesn't make sense; of course npm has more modules, but why would I care about having e.g. node's express framework available to my build tool/task runner?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'd say no, but I'm a layman. I think the situation you describe is "just" an interaction between different systems which, together, make the whole open macrosystem which is your body. If I can push myself to go even fur
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I was a scientist until a few months ago (until I finished my PhD, essentially), so - believe me - I know the value of studies which "state the obvious", even when the conclusion seems "small" (which isn't the case,
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Have you read "Descartes' Error", by António Damásio (USC Neurology professor)? I must have recommended this a thousand times. Found it amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_Error
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by paulojreis 11y ago
This shouldn't come as a surprise; "mental" and "physical" aren't distinct entities, our bodies function as a whole. Having to state this is, I think, a reflex of an ever-present dualist view of the body (in th
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Not quite, I think. I've been using it, it's cool and all, solves some common CSS issues, but it comes with its own set of problems. For starters, it's a whole new set of browser incompatibilities that you have to learn [1],
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Although there is a rationale for converging to npm, the tl;dr regarding bower is that it's not cool any more.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Besides this, middle class doesn't have the ways of the higher class (to influence legislation and hire experts in avoiding taxation).

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