patdryburgh

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by patdryburgh 14y ago
If a client ever approached me without having some sort of direction or plan or strategy in mind, I would never work for them. I want clients who know what they want, who I can partner with and provide appropriate guidance and input, and wh
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by patdryburgh 14y ago
My boss was involved in preparing the draft proposal that this bill is based on. He has over a decade of experience on both sides of the VC/start up fence. His experience bringing the team that created Summify to Canada from Romania was a c
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by patdryburgh 14y ago
>The main problem is that Canada doesn't have near enough active VC investors. A trend that is certainly changing. Vancouver, for instance, has a growing and vibrant VC community, from which this very bill was initiated.
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Preparing for John Siracusa's Review of OS X Mountain Lion(vimeo.com)
1 points by patdryburgh 14y ago|0 comments
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by patdryburgh 14y ago
An update to my Creative Cloud confusion: http://patdryburgh.com/blog/no-serial-number-needed/
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by patdryburgh 14y ago
Again, feel free to bump up the text size if it doesn't work for you. The site is designed to adjust its layout based on the font size, so the line length will never change. One of the best features of the web is it gives users the ability
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by patdryburgh 14y ago
Feel free to bump the text size up. The site's layout will adjust accordingly :) And, for the record, the background is white, and #333333 meets the criteria of both the W3C and the WCAG ( http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colou
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The Potential Client - How A Design Studio Operates(esbueno.noahstokes.com)
2 points by patdryburgh 14y ago|0 comments
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Adding a Custom DuckDuckGo Search Bar to Your Site(patdryburgh.com)
2 points by patdryburgh 15y ago|0 comments
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
I received a great email from Andrew de Andrade, a fellow Hacker News reader, on why what I perceived to be censorship wasn't, and how it was my fault as the link submitter for not providing a title that provided better utility to the commu
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
“I can see why the original headline might have been edited for clarity - the mental leap from "porno site" to "productivity porn" is non-obvious.” Perhaps it is non-obvious reading only the title, but the article did go on to clarify what
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Censorship On Hacker News(patdryburgh.com)
14 points by patdryburgh 15y ago|4 comments
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
No, the site was a member of Fusion Ads starting in January 2011. Before that, a company that made hardware for managing desk clutter sponsored the blog.
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
Hey Arnold, Tried replying to you through email, but the email bounced back. Used the email on your Hacker News profile. Cheers, Pat
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
>It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone. I'm very, very sympathetic to this issue, and agree that it hurts when any site goes d
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
This was an option I considered and discussed with a friend who is well known in the minimalism/productivity space. To me, it's actually more of a moral issue: is keeping a site like Simple Desks online good, bad, or neutral to the world. I
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
Sorry, the title was censored.
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Shutting Down My Site(patdryburgh.com)
81 points by patdryburgh 15y ago|50 comments
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by patdryburgh 15y ago
Wasn't aware that producing work on the internet was limited to American citizens. McDonald's, here I come.