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The hacker method for game publishing: band together(theindiebundle.com)
2 points by tripngroove 16y ago|1 comments
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by tripngroove 16y ago
This guy has done an admirable job of appropriating the visual style of Scott Hansen, of iso50.net / Tycho, who has been making design in a similar vein for many years. Here are two designs I was immediately reminded of; both because of the
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by tripngroove 16y ago
http://portfolios.aiga.org/ http://www.behance.net/
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by tripngroove 16y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Cloudkick. Imagine looking at a list of 500 servers and trying to determine how their aggregate memory usage was trending in real-time. To quickly address your concerns: 1. Servers that are critical turn red and blink
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by tripngroove 17y ago
Here's a great one that converts between color modes, lets you step up or down mathematical increments by clicking, and gives you a full-window preview while you work. I use it all the time. http://www.drpeterjones.com/colorcalc/
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by tripngroove 17y ago
This is the best thing to come out of twitter yet. EDIT: Will trade beer for an invitation ;)
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by tripngroove 17y ago
Thank you for standing up for design; it takes a beating around here.
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by tripngroove 17y ago
This is the most usable drawing/painting app I've ever tried. There's something in its constrained, simple functionality that's very freeing. I've been playing with this for hours. All I need to do now is hack it to add colors.
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by tripngroove 17y ago
You folks may have missed the boat in assuming this is a startup. I think it's more about the idea/message/whatever. These people have other (good) jobs. Cindy Gallop (Founder/CEO) is a (quasi)retired ad exec. Her last web experiment: makel
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I think the biggest reason designers should learn to code is this: Knowing how to build a web page lets you begin to grok how the web works. A better understanding the medium will produce better results, in general. In practice, however, in
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by tripngroove 17y ago
Thank you for showing photos on a gray background - so much better for making them the focus!
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by tripngroove 17y ago
Theme roller is a cool idea, but the CSS it outputs has so much cruft... It's like they forgot about the cascading part.
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Ask HN: I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games?
8 points by tripngroove 17y ago|5 comments
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by tripngroove 17y ago
+1 Blueprint has good typographic defaults. Adjust for color and you can basically roll with it.
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I think it's naive to assume there's anything that happens on HN that isn't socially engineered in some way. Sounds glib, but render down the actions and incentives of participation on the site. In a business-focused environment where the
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by tripngroove 17y ago
Gets pretty interesting if you Firebug that select box and ramp the points to 50 or so... EDIT: 100 points and some futzing created so much feedback I ended up with a little cyclone going for a while. EDIT: pic -> http://i.imgur.com/qh
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by tripngroove 17y ago
+1 I agree; it's grossly wide and so thin as to be almost illegibly sparkly when it's black-on-white. I don't even want to imagine what this face would look like knocked-out on black. There's also a good comment on the source page about dis
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I disagree. I think it's a nicely succinct collection of relevant guidelines that, if used by a beginner, would yield a more aesthetic result than if they just winged it. I'd rather someone read Bringhurst (there's a cool version of the boo
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by tripngroove 17y ago
As far as I know, the rationale for placing bullets in the margin is the same as the one for hanging punctuation: we've trained our eyes to return to the beginning of the line and breaking up that rhythm forces you to work a little harder w
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I guess it's not really the "flourish". (I like that term for it) What really bothers me is that, on the whole, it feels like the designer put more effort into the flourish than into creating a design that would support and enhance the comm
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by tripngroove 17y ago
The absolute worst web design trend of 2009 is this header background that extends beyond the container and makes it look like the header is on a piece of paper that has been folded around the background. Let me show you what I'm talking ab
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I take it from your tone, and from the first line of your response, that you think "design and marketing" is nonsense. I'd like to introduce you to this cool company I heard about called Apple (www.apple.com); learning about them could be a
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by tripngroove 17y ago
FYI: This video vastly understates the volume and variety of delicious microbrews available in the city.
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Portland, OR: a video montage on why you'll love it(youtube.com)
7 points by tripngroove 17y ago|3 comments
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by tripngroove 17y ago
An interesting assertion, given that the design of this device, perhaps more so than any other piece of equipment in recent memory (excepting the iPhone), epitomizes the visual aesthetics of minimalism. It's a cube. The only challenging ele
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by tripngroove 17y ago
It could be that you're just not Boxee's target audience. It seems as though there's much less incentive for an individual with a rack full of legacy entertainment equipment to purchase an all-in-one device. Specifically regarding the visua
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I posit the transcriber interpreted Cézanne phonetically.
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I've heard from long-time guitarists that the same phenomenon occurs with guitars. One particular codger who I happened to have a long discussion with insisted that the wood fibers slowly realign as a result of the constant vibration. He cl
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by tripngroove 17y ago
I recently noticed that if I put on something extremely hard or caustic - some kind of screamy metal like Protest the Hero or Tool - and turn the volume up to the point where I can't hear anything else, I stop noticing the music altogether.
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by tripngroove 17y ago
This is really cool. My only comment so far is that the first 9 levels are REALLY slow. My patience was sorely tried in getting high enough for more fonts to appear.

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