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by jongold 4y ago
tried Astro recently and really, really love the DX and docs - so well executed
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by jongold 4y ago
fuck this - if you send me even one unsolicited follow up I'm setting up a filter to report all of your messages as spam if you text me once/day until you get a reply, I'm getting a restraining order have some respect
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by jongold 4y ago
- breathe - breathe - ask for help! you've done nothing wrong. one of the core responsibilities of experienced engineers is to help out less experienced engineers - if they don't know how to do things then hopefully y'all can
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by jongold 4y ago
this is the worst HN comment I've read in over a decade on this website, and holyshit have I read a lot of bad comments here
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by jongold 6y ago
you're conflating technical ability with the rest of the creative process: intuiting narratives in the collective unconscious & channeling inspiration from a much, much greater source to make something wholly outside of the artist.
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by jongold 6y ago
Absolutely agree. I've been playing music for basically my whole life, and am now, finally working on producing my first record of solo singer-songwriter material. Every time I thought I've been "close" over the past 18
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by jongold 6y ago
This book single handedly saved my butt a few years ago when I was diving deep into deep learning without a math background. It’s very slim, which is a huge selling point in a world of 9000 page textbooks. I love it.
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by jongold 6y ago
Some reflections at 31: - you can’t buy self-actualization. The most devastatingly miserable times in me & my friends’ lives have often been when we worked at big corporations doing nonsense work. they’re extremely good ways of earning
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by jongold 7y ago
it's easier to write songs when you have control of your voice.
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by jongold 7y ago
I adorrrrre my Iridium. I have Guitar Rig & Bias FX and a bunch of other sims, but the Iridium is really special. The sound is _inspiring_ - in that it makes me want to just sit and play guitar for hours on end because it sounds so damn
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by jongold 7y ago
Yup! I went from "I don't even sing karaoke or sing in the shower" to really liking my voice, performing super comfortably in public & preparing to record my first studio EP. I guess it's been 3-4 years at this point
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by jongold 7y ago
The most important thing is to relate the theory you learn back to your instrument, and to use your ears as much as your brain. I have a hunch that so many of my engineer friends are musicians because music theory is happily systematic - it
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by jongold 7y ago
Have you considered not selling technology to cops?
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by jongold 7y ago
Totally. The SharpieClassifier we built at Airbnb was super simple because we had a relatively fixed set of components that could be declaratively rendered with React or react-sketchapp as simply as <Marquee /> etc. I can't
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by jongold 7y ago
Lona is After Effects -> web / native. You might be thinking about react-sketchapp[1] or SharpieClassifier [2] (I built both :P) [1] https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/ [2] https://airbnb.desig
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by jongold 7y ago
Suddenly Apple's plethora of dongles looks like the better option
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by jongold 7y ago
Here's a version rendering on an oscilloscope with MIDI controllers from a festival I was at this past weekend :) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73bvoJIqME&feature=youtu.be PDF: http://docs.wixs
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by jongold 7y ago
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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by jongold 7y ago
I have no idea how to help but your product looks wonderful and I think I'm going to buy it - I'm sorry you're going through this
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by jongold 8y ago
Affinity make great products
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by jongold 8y ago
I remember the buzz when Sketch 2 came out in 2012. Tons of us switched immediately. Whilst I think Sketch has stagnated since then, what it initially offered was a lightweight tool that was designed around the types of primitives we used a
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by jongold 8y ago
Yo - I did the Airbnb project linked ^^^ which I believe was the first of this wave of deep learning-powered sketch->UI projects (though standing on the shoulders of decades of R&D projects) Our take was that we really do design on p
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by jongold 8y ago
this is a realllllly good idea.
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by jongold 8y ago
the correct answer is musician, right? right?
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by jongold 8y ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted for this.
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by jongold 8y ago
fwiw it wasn't 18 months "testing" a new font - most of that was font development with an external partner, then implementing across many surfaces without creating bugs that affected accessibility, then testing. doing things
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by jongold 8y ago
we have a new tool that we're trying internally to design cross-platform components - https://github.com/airbnb/Lona pretty early still, but the idea is that short-term it generates assets that fit into our existi
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by jongold 8y ago
Reminds me of The Butcher's Son in Berkeley - a completely vegan deli, with menu items advertised as if they were meat. I eat meat but it's one of my favorite spots in the Bay - along with the Impossible Burger finding it's w
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by jongold 8y ago
Wish I knew. Hit the point this year where I seriously considered quitting tech forever.
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by jongold 8y ago
Check out http://www.focusatwill.com - music designed / curated by neuroscientists for focus

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