michaelpinto

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The Olivetti Programma 101(curtamania.com)
73 points by michaelpinto 5y ago|9 comments
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Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)(medium.com)
274 points by michaelpinto 6y ago|174 comments
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
a ux designer would tell you to not trust your own experience, but to measure the experience of others.
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
the danger of climate change
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
You have to define what "ruin" really is. Ruin could mean no longer being a viable brand, in which case you may be right. However ruin can also mean a creative decline in terms of creating new series, and if they're shifting
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
Idea: Can you volunteer for a local non-profit to build up a resume?
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
The problem is that when you have a hammer (a software startup), everything looks like a nail: 1. There may be a shortage of Doctors to provide a 2nd opinion. The cost of a medical education is quite high, and the pay has been going down th
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by michaelpinto 8y ago
my friend did this at a well known tech company, and they screwed her over in a very bad way sadly your boss usually isn't your friend, and your boss will talk to other co-workers, and then they may want to get rid of you i'm sure
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Google and HTTP(this.how)
43 points by michaelpinto 9y ago|58 comments
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by michaelpinto 9y ago
I hate to tell you this but you're looking in the mirror at your future self (and your peers) as coding isn't usually in most cases a healthy lifestyle choice.
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by michaelpinto 10y ago
Something to keep in mind is that Asimov was very much a product of the age of pulp magazines, so early on in his career he was paid by the word for his work. A side geek note: If you were active in NYC fandom from say the 50s on chances we
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Essay from 2006: 2016: A Peek at Our Internet Future(pbs.org)
1 points by michaelpinto 10y ago|0 comments
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by michaelpinto 10y ago
This blew me away: "Venture capitalist Michael Cardamone, the tournament’s co-organizer, approves of young companies buying tables with venture funds. “You absolutely should,” he says. “It’s part of building culture.”"
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
This: "Better design does not mean more design. Often, the most obvious designs are invisible." This also reminds me of the Steve Jobs approach of being proud of all the times that they said "no".
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
That depends on the nature of the startup: There is a ton of hyphen-tech here, so for example a fin-tech startup in my building that focuses on insurance just closed a Round B. Boston has a finance industry, but not on the level of NYC. And
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Y Combinator should come to Brooklyn!
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
While it wasn't hardware I wish they had mentioned GEOS: If you had enough money for a disk drive this would give you a Mac OS feel to your C64: http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
There already was a crash of ad banner rates in 2008, in fact that killed many small publishers. You'd have a real bubble if there was a ton of moneys still being pumped into AdTech, but that hasn't been the case for a year now. A
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Something to keep in mind is that Japan is very impacted by the economy of China: Not just direct exports and tourism, but as the rest of Asia suffers from the slow down in China that also impacts Japanese exports as well. And on the tech s
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
It's not a bubble, the advertising industry has always followed this cycle: The post war television boom in America begat many new Madison Avenue ad agencies in the 50s who reached a high point in the 60s and the 70s, but then by the 8
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Suggestion to non-design founders: If you really want to learn about color you should start with a serious study of color theory. If you don't have the bandwidth to take a full course you should read the book "Interaction of Color
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
If you want to see their amazing film work (and they made quite a few cool films on computing thanks to IBM) take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/user/EamesOffice If you want to be inspired by an amazing produc
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Looking back I have to conclude that Adobe didn't know what they were doing, so you can't really blame Apple. The proof? If you look at the success of Unity which does cross platform game dev very well you have to conclude that Ad
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Every form of energy generation has positive and negative points, to claim that one is the best is oversimplification. In fact when I met people who worked for that industry their argument to me was that no single source of energy generatio
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Q. What direction do you want to go in with your career? I think you really need to think through where you'd like to be when you get out of school. Do you want to work at a big company or a startup? Is there a problem space that you h
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I don't know if everyone can go to this extreme, but when you think about the fact that plastic can take up to 450 years to decay one wishes that there was less waste in most packaging. What I've really noticed in fact is just how
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I don't agree with this article: I think that when it comes to usability (and maybe even empathy) that some engineers are more talented than others. And even then there are some engineers who may not have that talent, but have an under
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Genetics plays a role in obesity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_of_obesity You can also be thin and have a bad diet, and while you may not be obese your internal systems can still be suffering from damage over
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
That's easy to answer: Dementia. http://www.dementiaguide.com/symptomlibrary/thinkingjudgemen... Dementia can grow slowly over time and can impact your judgement. And said person can be highly functional at the ti
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
How much you kern may be subjective, but kerning itself (and other aspects of typography) are very related to legibility which is less subjective. Of course on a one word logo that really won't make a measurable difference. Related rea

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