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by vogt 2y ago
My grandfather, Dick, was a Korea war veteran who founded a manufacturing company. He was a grizzly, old school guy with a bit of a drinking problem. As the legend goes HAM was the only thing that brought him joy. He had an entire room of t
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by vogt 3y ago
Yeah - all of that sounds like a pain. No argument from me. Sometimes, things rot and we have a bigger mess than before. There are many circumstances in which a design system is at best a lateral move and at worst a huge distraction. My iss
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by vogt 3y ago
So have I, and they weren't. So we're no better off where we started. I at least made concessions on my side of the argument, but you are free to dig your heels in.
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by vogt 3y ago
I hear this take often - particularly on HN - and I think that it is well off base IME. For many small + medium sized companies, sure, this can be true. For a scaled org with 10s or even 100s of teams building UI having an internal design s
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by vogt 3y ago
Can't believe I'm saying it but twitter has become the main spot for me. Read.cv as others have pointed out is also good. Way less signal and noise than X of course, but the content is almost always very high quality.
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by vogt 3y ago
Yes. Why care about the factual accuracy/level of insight/caliber of the content I put out when the only thing that matters is that it gets seen?
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by vogt 3y ago
Agree on desktop, not so much on mobile
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by vogt 3y ago
The cipher is for any email spam crawlers, not hiding my identity. Pretty common practice on this site.
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by vogt 3y ago
if the author of this has any interest in collaborating with a designer please let me know. Huge fan of this and would be happy to contribute. peter at peter[HNusername].co
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by vogt 3y ago
Heh, that sounds _exactly_ like my feed as well. There also is a calendar of dogs pooping that I've gotten about a hundred times. Seeking Arrangements also showing me tons of ads despite the fact that I make it no secret that I'm
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by vogt 3y ago
>CEO said there'll be no severance or healthcare. Classy. Learning a lot about how certain people treat their employees during these last couple of admittedly insane years. Good for future reference, I guess - though not much solace
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by vogt 3y ago
That sounds cool. I'm glad you remember it fondly - not to gripe among the privileged, but I have never worked in a cool office like that. With all of the endlessly discussed disadvantages and implications (maybe the employer is doing
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by vogt 3y ago
Yes, practical exposure to any industry - particularly ones the teenager has an interest in - is a great thing. I went to what was called a “vocational” high school in the US. In schools like this you rotate between a week of academic class
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by vogt 3y ago
The closest thing I have found is ReelGood. They let you pick all your services and search, browse, etc. Handles cases where multiple providers have the same content pretty gracefully. Your authentication creds don’t talk to Reelgood, so th
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by vogt 3y ago
Pretty cool. I lived out that way for a bit in the early 2010s (Abrams + Munger). I take it you're from Garland originally, or did you grow up in the city?
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by vogt 3y ago
Wow, this is a great blast from the past. I grew up on the road where this airport http://www.airfields-freeman.com/MA/Airfields_MA_C.htm#norfo... was. You would walk right out our front door and the field with runways
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by vogt 3y ago
And police force, who are not burdened by the demands / low staffing DPD are.
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by vogt 3y ago
This is pretty cool. May buy one and will provide feedback if I do.
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by vogt 3y ago
Yeah, you see a similar phenomenon in the northeastern US. Places like New Bedford and Lowell, Massachusetts were doing much better when whaling and textiles were in their golden years. Now, not so much.
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by vogt 3y ago
I was a console and laptop guy for my whole life, built my first PC I think age 32-33. It was initially daunting but /r/BuildaPC and analyzing many builds on PCPartpicker.com really helped. I also had a couple of people at work wh
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by vogt 3y ago
Yeah I went from Vyvanse to XR to IR over the last 7 years and am happy with IR. I feel as though my ADHD symptoms are mitigated appropriately and the side effects are virtually non existent. Vyvanse was great for productivity but I felt li
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by vogt 3y ago
I know you were being tongue in cheek, but I am pretty sure this launched right around 2017. In fact, I don't think it's been updated since. I always thought this was a really great idea, but I admit it is strange seeing it crop u
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by vogt 3y ago
The last sentence summarizes all of this thread perfectly IMO. Without giving away too much detail I’d ask if that designer is a one person or very small department? That would be my guess. It makes these arguments a lot easier to win if yo
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by vogt 3y ago
Agreed 100%. Most of the comments here conflate the work of designers with stuff they are _compelled_ to do by marketing, PMs looking to pad their KPIs, “growth” departments (is that term even around anymore), or in many startups cases, bad
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by vogt 3y ago
I live out here. 10 miles may as well be an inch. It is VAST. All of the towns around here have a population of 2000 or less, save for Alpine at a whopping 20k. Personally, I have zero concerns about being in the radius of any of all that.
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by vogt 3y ago
We loved it so much we moved out here. Couldn’t be happier. Weather is great, people are friendly. No Uber Eats but in the long run that is a net positive I think. this part of Texas is certainly the best in my eyes and one of the best part
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by vogt 3y ago
My good-faith two cents: one step is better than zero here, even if this isn’t, as you plainly state, much more than a hollow gesture. I doubt Amazon senior leadership are thrilled that this has been in the headlines since this past weekend
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by vogt 3y ago
I'm a big fan of leveraging the FN key on 60% and lower layouts. I handle all of the switching between layers with FN+W,A,S,D. So four different layouts basically. Plus a wild amount of macros. But all in all I basically just am agreei
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by vogt 3y ago
I was inspired by your comment and started to look into this. We have kestrels that congregate around the house that I think would ravage the suet but I may try anyway.
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by vogt 3y ago
For the first time in my 36 years, I saw one out the window Saturday morning after I woke up. I felt like I was in the presence of a celebrity, and found myself semi-aghast at how excited I was. I tried really hard to get a video but he fle

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