rangerpolitic

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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Sure, it helps get your resume past the guardians.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
I would add another. 7. Problem solving: figuring out how to fulfill goals and objectives Design is fundamentally about solving problems. It's something that gets overlooked and/or misunderstood by so many web designers today.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
"I like" is precisely the mistake I am addressing. Design is not about what one likes. It is about what helps one solve a problem. Web designers and their bosses/clients reduce "design" to the creation of the look-a
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
And yet it works. The problem is designers and their bosses/clients. They equate design with looks. As a result, they see design as solving the problem of aesthetic. They fail to realize this is a problem which very few people care abo
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Gizmodo called her a "ghoul?" That is a very odd choice given that "spook" has been historically used as a racial slur against African-Americans.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
It reminds me of self-plagiarism.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Not my term. I wouldn't have a clue how to define it.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Are you advocating for violence against "nazis?"
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
You're re-contextualizing parent's statement and thereby changing it's meaning. That's unfair and dishonest.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Don't build mobile apps. Build web apps.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
I took a teaching position back in the mid-00s in Korea. Because it was a new school, the housing wasn't ready when we arrived. The school decided to put us up in one because it was cheap. We were there for a month. Nice? That's n
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
I agree with you. The biggest challenge I have is wrapping myself up with my customers. I have no idea how to go about doing that. Any ideas? Resources? Tips?
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
You can do quite a lot with nothing but HTML/CSS. https://codepen.io/jcoulterdesign/pen/NOMeEb
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
I am hopeful for CSS grid. I am hopeful that we can properly return to the principle of separating concerns. I am so tired of dealing with sites that have HTML littered with divs and spans solely for the purposes of layout and styling.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
This will change. The lawsuits are coming.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Even if I accept your reasoning here, it still doesn't change my main point. What we have is a group of people (e.g., Lerna, etc.) trying to ride on the coattails of success of "open source" without being forthcoming about wh
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Not sure how any of this would contradict anything I've mentioned. Perhaps you don't mean it to do so? If you do, you'll have to explain more because I'm not really following.
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
> Coining a term or being among the first to use it does not mean that term belongs to you. I wish that people would understand this not only in the context of definitions but also in the context of culture. Neither definitions nor cultu
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by rangerpolitic 8y ago
Like all symbols (e.g., statues, logos, sounds, buildings, etc.), there is no innate meaning for words. We are completely free to attach any arbitrary meaning to a word and use it to convey that meaning. That doesn't mean it is without