alsomike

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by alsomike 15y ago
I agree, it's totally outrageous that people with "backgrounds in sociology and political philosophy" are preying on our most vulnerable global corporations and infiltrating their most sensitive and secret labor camps!
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by alsomike 15y ago
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=user+experience+designer
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by alsomike 15y ago
892 unique ways to partition a 3x4 grid: http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/3x4grid.html They also have an interactive tool that generates HTML/CSS: http://www.3x4grid.com
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by alsomike 15y ago
Could you explain the difference between "understands design" and being a designer?
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by alsomike 15y ago
As a designer, I'm not very concerned about spec work. The wide availability of cheap desktop publishing software could have made design as a profession vanish because it gave people the ability to do it themselves. But that didn't happen.
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by alsomike 16y ago
It sounds like you're talking about usefulness, not usability. In HCI/UX circles, the classic catchphrase is "useful, usable, desirable."
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by alsomike 16y ago
It's OK as a logo, except for the inconsistent light source on the shadows. As a toolbar icon, it seems like they decided to redesign it so that it violates every OS icon guideline in existence, except on Windows Phone 7.
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by alsomike 16y ago
"Many designers or agencies might scoff at the notion of a “non-designer” being able to learn and understand the principles to help them arrive at a design." They would, except that most of them were once non-designers who learned the princ
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by alsomike 16y ago
This is a good example of how A/B testing the wrong things can kill your product.
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by alsomike 16y ago
I write all my PDFs directly in PostScript instead of using InDesign or Illustrator, because that way it's breathing instead of catatonic or whatever.
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by alsomike 16y ago
Actual data: "even after accounting for the value of retirement, healthcare, and other benefits, state and local employees earn less than private sector counterparts. On average, total compensation is 6.8% lower for state employees and 7.4%
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by alsomike 16y ago
A lot of these salaries are in the Corrections department. The US didn't get to be the world's #1 jailer for free, guys!
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by alsomike 16y ago
Evidence that these failures are due to Apple's blindspot of being too controlling?
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by alsomike 16y ago
Google has failed multiple times at launching social apps. Is there an equivalent series of Apple failures from being too controlling? If not, what makes this a blindspot?
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by alsomike 16y ago
I read this right after another story I found on HN - The Youth Unemployment Bomb: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_52/b40... It's relevant because one of the methods for reducing unemployment was encouraging entrepre
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by alsomike 16y ago
A farmer who has difficulty plowing straight lines because his oxen are recalcitrant doesn't get his feelings hurt and write lengthy books in oxen language for the oxen to read whining about how he is a superior type of animal and why can't
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by alsomike 16y ago
Right, but why do you even need a proxy, why isn't it enough to just have money and power? It's because other people need to know.
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by alsomike 16y ago
Actually, I think status markers created by the government would be far, far more appealing to the wealthy. It's like Hegel's master-slave dialectic - a master doesn't feel like a real master because he knows all the struggles and difficult
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by alsomike 16y ago
> I'd miss is the ability to save up your high income for a few years so that you could compensate for a low income the next few years I was thinking that people could work part-time and earn 50% of standard income. Median household inc
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by alsomike 16y ago
> Which means that there will almost certainly suddenly be a lot more "workers". You mean a low unemployment rate? > Your system relies on taking away a great deal of money from rich people... the more you do it the harder those ric
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by alsomike 16y ago
That's fine, you'd get 50% of the tax credit.
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by alsomike 16y ago
My tax plan is to eliminate income tax up to $90,000. After that, income is taxed at 100%. The government awards tax credits for everyone making less than that, so that everyone's salary + tax credits = $90,000. "But wait," you say "How wil
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by alsomike 16y ago
LOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by alsomike 16y ago
Here's what I got out of this: employees are extremely obedient when you don't tell them the rules. Because they have to guess what's expected of them, they come up even more restrictive rules just to be on the safe side. Example: if you do
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by alsomike 16y ago
It means that Netscape ignored the idea of separating markup from style, probably setting back the progress of the web by some years. This seems to imply that Andreessen's vision of the web was not very ambitious at the time - mixing FONT a
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by alsomike 16y ago
This might be a minor point, but being self-actualized means determining for yourself what's meaningful. Almost by definition, trying to be #1 isn't that, because you're basically living for #2, trying to get them to realize you're better.
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by alsomike 16y ago
So giving suicidal people lots of opportunities to harm themselves? Something doesn't add up there.
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by alsomike 16y ago
Apple is obviously following the innovations of web app design here. People use web apps with wildly different designs all the time, and yes, there are some usability issues with that, but when consumer OSes were first being developed some
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by alsomike 16y ago
I really just don't understand how you can hold this idealistic view of mankind that a member of one sex should enflame the passion of the opposite sex, through activities and clothing with deliberate, intentional sexual overtones and then
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by alsomike 16y ago
That's a great idea, but if you're truly committed to civil liberties, you need to take it to the next level by faking an orgasm while you're being groped.

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