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by dfield 3y ago
CEO of Figma here. Most of the original insights around vector networks were in 2013, though we continued to polish the implementation over time. We didn't exit stealth and ship the closed beta of Figma until December 2015 which is why
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Scientists communicate with people in lucid dreaming state(beta.nsf.gov)
4 points by dfield 6y ago|0 comments
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Google Workers Launch Union(bloomberg.com)
4 points by dfield 6y ago|0 comments
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by dfield 6y ago
Nope, Brown generously gives you five years before you have to apply again. You just have to remember to go back... https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/policies/leav...
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by dfield 6y ago
Hi, Dylan (Figma CEO) here. You can use local fonts in Figma via a local daemon helper, our native app or by adding the font to a shared library on our Org Plan. (Assuming you have an appropriate license for the font.) We're also hopef
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Do I need to go to university?(colah.github.io)
217 points by dfield 6y ago|261 comments
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NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis(matthewtancik.com)
237 points by dfield 6y ago|40 comments
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I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next (Marcin Wichary)(youtu.be)
2 points by dfield 7y ago|0 comments
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by dfield 8y ago
At Figma we're pretty open with employees about this stuff.
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Using Figma's Web API to Convert Designs Into React(blog.figma.com)
6 points by dfield 8y ago|0 comments
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Deep Painterly Harmonization(github.com)
1 points by dfield 8y ago|0 comments
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by dfield 8y ago
+1 I loved this class
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Desperately Seeking Squircles(blog.figma.com)
6 points by dfield 8y ago|0 comments
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Using the Figma API to Create ERC-721 Tokens Representing Emoji Art(youtube.com)
1 points by dfield 8y ago|0 comments
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Introducing: Figma’s Platform(blog.figma.com)
6 points by dfield 8y ago|1 comments
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Zeplin Launches Integration with Figma(blog.zeplin.io)
1 points by dfield 9y ago|0 comments
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by dfield 9y ago
Yep, Evan is my cofounder! We started talking about building collaborative creative tools using WebGL shortly after he built this demo in an afternoon during summer 2011. Shameless plug: if anyone is interested in working with us on Figma,
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An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting(medium.com)
226 points by dfield 9y ago|68 comments
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by dfield 10y ago
I cofounded Figma with the support of the Thiel Fellowship. It was definitely worth it to me, but dropping out of school is a very unique and personal decision. You should definitely apply and you should introspect deeply before taking it
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Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU(rykap.com)
3 points by dfield 10y ago|1 comments
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Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU(medium.com)
223 points by dfield 10y ago|39 comments
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by dfield 10y ago
^ constexpr is the author
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by dfield 11y ago
I tried switching to Soylent and I would consider this inhumane treatment for prisoners.
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Rendering Realtime Caustics in WebGL(medium.com)
64 points by dfield 11y ago|4 comments
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by dfield 11y ago
Yep — in the video, our primary goal for the UI was visual: we wanted something that was visually very different from Figma so it would stand out against the Figma interface. Makes sense the lack of substance shows through ;) While we don&#
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by dfield 11y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, we haven't invested in testing Linux because designers prefer other platforms.
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by dfield 11y ago
First, thanks for the congrats :) 1. We didn't want to talk about ourselves before we had a product we believed in. So we kept quietly building and we didn't announce until (a) the performance was great, (b) we had the features de
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by dfield 11y ago
Thanks! We generate CSS styles and make it easy to export assets. We don't generate layout code.
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by dfield 11y ago
Thanks! I didn't submit, so no control over the title. If you want me to bump you up on the waitlist, DM me on Twitter: I'm @zoink.
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by dfield 11y ago
Hey all, I'm Dylan Field — author of the linked post / co-founder of Figma. If you have any questions, let me know!

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