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by roldie 6y ago
The same is true for design/ux jobs interviews. Well, at least for me. I got laid off a couple of months ago, and have been interviewing pretty steadily since then. I have yet to receive an offer. I already know where my strengths and
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Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online(techcrunch.com)
165 points by roldie 6y ago|89 comments
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by roldie 6y ago
Off topic, but would you mind sharing how you made the transition from design to product management? I'm considering making the jump myself and am curious about what the experience has been like.
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by roldie 6y ago
They're not a US company. Nor are they a conglomerate. Source: I used to work for them.
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by roldie 6y ago
Thanks, never knew about rightgif. Their search is so good!
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by roldie 7y ago
If you type `cmd /` you open up the menu focused on the search field. You can then type the command or plugin that you want. Not quite sketch runner, but part of the way there.
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by roldie 7y ago
I appreciate the technical achievement of "multiplayer," and it does work impressively well. However, no one one my design team likes it. I certainly don't. It's akin to having someone breathing over your shoulder as you
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by roldie 7y ago
This is fantastic! Very useful, especially for those of us who still think best with pen and paper.
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by roldie 9y ago
What is it about Figma that changed the way you work?
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by roldie 9y ago
Sure, my email is in my profile
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by roldie 9y ago
Unrelated to the quality of the redesign. I would advise other designers to not follow this method exactly. Talking to users is great, it's what separates a designer from someone who just pushes pixels, but it's not a good idea to
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by roldie 10y ago
EconTalk has a recent episode on basic income [0]. The guest is against basic income but the debate is interesting. [0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/michael_munger_3.ht...
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Massachusetts Is Considering Changing Its Time Zone, Because Winter Is the Worst(fastcoexist.com)
10 points by roldie 10y ago|1 comments
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by roldie 10y ago
This is quite fascinating. All these practices are touted as modern design techniques, however they were being done over 20 years ago.
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by roldie 10y ago
>A bigger concern to me is that people might interpret these findings as assigning fault to people who get cancer. You don’t want to get into situations where you feel as if people don’t deserve help because they didn’t try hard enough t
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by roldie 10y ago
I've had U/L drivers in Austin who had trouble with English or were clearly not from Austin. One time, I used Uber Pool or Lyft Line and the drive asked me to call the next passenger because he couldn't communicate with them.
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by roldie 11y ago
I wish Congresspeople were held to the same standard as the rest of us. This kind of lack of understanding of technology (intentional or not) is evidence of gross incompetence. Feinstein/Burr should be expelled. We all would fired if w
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by roldie 11y ago
I agree. I've been increasingly less impressed by their news coverage. You said it exactly right, there are puff pieces and lack of true experts representation on all sides of issues. However, for me, NPR's true value is it's
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by roldie 11y ago
I don't have any data to back up my anecdote, but here in Austin, Lyft seems to be much more popular than Uber, and both are more popular than taxis. My friends and I all prefer Lyft as riders. This is due to equal if not higher availa
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by roldie 11y ago
I recently spend a few days on my old Nokia Lumia 920 because I had busted my Android phone and was waiting for a new one in the mail. The OS (WP8) itself was actually quite delightful. I really enjoyed using it for those few days. The home
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by roldie 11y ago
There was a great talk at SXSW last year entitled "The Myth of Reducing Friction in your Product." Basically, within a given flow (say onboarding or signup), you want to consider having some points of friction interspersed with lo
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by roldie 11y ago
Daily fantasy sports are like poker. There is an element of skill in each, and you'll see the same skilled players win consistently. However, based on my anecdotal evidence of being a fantasy football player (but not DFS, admittedly) a
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by roldie 11y ago
I think the over-confident people are not necessarily more sure of their abilities, but rather, less afraid of being wrong or making a mistake. Mistakes are just shrugged off, whereas for the under-confident, mistakes can be crippling and c
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by roldie 11y ago
This is cool. It's very similar to The Hype Machine, my favorite way to find new music. http://hypem.com/
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by roldie 11y ago
I haven't used 10 yet (or even 8). What UX trends are you referring to?
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by roldie 11y ago
The takeaway from this is that affordances are still important in UI design. Many sites/apps nowadays try to get away without it. Even having a tutorial during onboarding isn't really enough. Users often disregard them, so you nee
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by roldie 11y ago
I agree. They're quality has gone downhill considerably. Which site(s) do you recommend? I like sites with strong community/lots of comments. Ars is pretty good. But I'm looking for a site that's a little more pop tech t
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by roldie 11y ago
Perhaps you're looking for Percy [0]? Similar functionality unless I'm missing something, but more focused on the CI use case than CMS. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624673
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by roldie 13y ago
Looks cool. Nice job, I could definitely use something like this. I'd say that you guys should add an about page so we know a little about who made it. Also consider a live preview or something so people don't have to create an ac
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by roldie 13y ago
I admire the enthusiasm of the author, and I do encourage others to try fantasy football (or other fantasy sports), as it's really fun and I enjoy it a lot. I just want to point out that he's in an 8 man league, which is on the sm

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