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by viviantan 14y ago
I missed the joke entirely at first, but I'm glad I read your comments before posting some obtuse, self-righteous reply like I normally would :) Now I'll have to check out tptacek's "must read" list.
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by viviantan 14y ago
This is the best article I've read on UI design in a while, thank you for sharing! Lately I've come across a number of blogs and articles drawing comparisons between the work by early Disney animators and Imagineers and modern UI/UX design.
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by viviantan 14y ago
> No, it's a designer with an interest in all design. Thank you. I've been trying to make the same point, but with far too many words!
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by viviantan 14y ago
While it's true that not everyone can afford the "best" that money can buy, whatever that means, picking the best quality whenever possible is quite the opposite of materialism. I associate materialism with superficiality and waste. None
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Airbnb launches free housing program for Sandy victims(money.cnn.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
Revenge of the Nerd. Sweet, sweet revenge :)
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Siri: No hookers please; we're Chinese(arstechnica.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
Great work! Can't wait to try it :)
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by viviantan 14y ago
It's not just the age of the female partner that affects the child's health. As men age, the risk of passing genetic mutations (including those that cause diseases) onto their offspring increases. This article talks the study: http://www.t
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by viviantan 14y ago
I love what you're doing. I am curious though, about Negroponte's comment on making a "clean start" with a new village if the project gets funded. What will happen to the kids and the program in the original village?
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by viviantan 14y ago
I know you're impatient and you can't wait to get the ball rolling on your ideas. Believe me, I've been in your shoes. And I thought the grass was greener on the other side too. Having tread the grass on both sides, here's what I've learned
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by viviantan 14y ago
Your comment reminds me of the turning point in WALL-E when all the humans finally looked up from their computer screens to see the world :) Coincidentally a few days ago I was just writing about how Imagineers pioneered UX design. And spe
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Almost Every Website Could Be In Legal Jeopardy Now, Thanks To Zappos(businessinsider.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
A special checkbox for late applications is a great idea. I would also suggest asking the teams affected by the storm to send an email to YC or post to a new thread (assuming they have some Internet access, I still see lots of tweets from N
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Auxetic Materials: Hook's Law(economist.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
Matthewrudy is right. The legislation for regulating Cantonese in broadcast and print media was enacted in Guangzhou, not Hong Kong. My mistake. No politicians would say outright that they want to eliminate a major language, but they could
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by viviantan 14y ago
Hong Kong's awesome. Love the food, love the people, love the incredible cityscape, love everything :) I heard that Beijing's trying to phase out the Cantonese language in Hong Kong. Has it been enforced?
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by viviantan 14y ago
By Atlantic I meant Pacific, because I'm obviously a geography genius :)
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by viviantan 14y ago
It's rare to see successive and extensive news coverage of corruption among major Chinese Communist Party leaders, and there's been 3 this year already: Bo Xilai in March, Xi Jinping in June, and now Wen Jiabao. This year's unusual because
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by viviantan 14y ago
Hi sethbannon, idbknox, gleb, and lloydarmbrust, would it be ok to ask you guys for feedback on my YC app? I wanted to check with you first before I start spamming your inboxes :) I live in Silicon Valley so everyone here is either going YC
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by viviantan 14y ago
I read the article per physcab’s suggestion (and because I was curious why a story about Greek centenarians could generate so much lively discussion on HN). Good read indeed, thanks! I think it's easy to be dismissive when the topic of disc
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Social Networks Dropped From Cybersecurity Plan(techcrunch.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
Thank you for sharing! Upvoted. That lucky office you mentioned apparently casts it's glow on its surroundings as well. La Boulange opened a new cafe next door, and 1-2 weeks later announced that Starbucks had bought out the entire bakery c
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by viviantan 14y ago
I couldn't be there, but I would be very interested to hear your perspective.
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by viviantan 14y ago
Thank you for sharing this! Does anyone know if YC will post the video? I couldn't watch the live stream on Saturday. Too bad about Instagram for Squirrels. I would've been one of their 5 users.
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by viviantan 14y ago
You'd still need quite a bit of artistic talent to make hard plastic look good. But would I want a super expensive and buggy 3D printer for Christmas? Yes please!!! Btw, has anyone used 123D Catch (or any 123D software)? From what I gleaned
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by viviantan 14y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. Since this is Hacker News I can sometimes be a bit myopic about the different kinds of entrepreneurs. Now that I think about it, the guy from Breaking Bad could be the perfect poster-boy (poster-man?) for wh
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by viviantan 14y ago
I'm totally with you about loving Jon Stewart and I'm all for removing barriers for those inclined towards entrepreneurship. But the concept of creating safety nets to encourage more entrepreneurship strikes me as paradoxical. To an extent,
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Fact-Checking Obama and Romney on Apple and China(mashable.com)
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by viviantan 14y ago
I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with the term "user." It's a top-level generic term that could be broken down to better describe those who use your service. In Square's case, that's "buyers" and "sellers" who are both "cust

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