celadon

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by celadon 11y ago
For some companies/teams/hiring managers/interviews, having someone who can reason about big-O complexity and design their own algorithms is important and necessary. There won't always be problems that have a preexisting
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by celadon 11y ago
If you aren't prioritizing for code quality and beauty, do you also explicitly tell candidates that? I think it's very difficult for candidates to understand exactly what the interviewer wants—and, of course, all interviewers are
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by celadon 12y ago
I have to object to this. Friends can be an invaluable support. But they are not professionals, and I've been on both sides of friendships where trying to use a friend as a pseudo-therapist strained the relationship too much. It's
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by celadon 13y ago
This is really fascinating. Do you have sources for this? I hadn't even thought about this side of the economic equation.
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by celadon 13y ago
Nice. I feel you almost sold yourself short making this about "considering a startup", because you have some great general advice on how people should choose the best working environment for them, period. "You become the peop
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by celadon 13y ago
I think my chief interest in these kinds of ideas is in enabling designers/et cetera to flesh out their ideas for certain interfaces/functionality/tools. It's much easier to express why an idea is cool and worth pursuing
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Attentional austerity in the digital deluge(thefrailestthing.com)
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by celadon 14y ago
I think sometimes we forget that Apple's primary audience doesn't even know what skeumorphism is, and certainly won't call it "regressive aesthetic infantilism" (it sounds cooler to write like that, so I can't exactly fault the author). But
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by celadon 14y ago
"Interface design" should encompass more than just visual aesthetics. These are largely concepts focused on making something that looks good, not concepts that break away from an IM client convention to actually improve usability. It's usef