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Default setting is <America>, no qualifier needed. Also, <America> == <U.S.>, please learn to live in Ascii ;-)

The definition itself is new, at least for me whe I read it.

Getting to a sound definition of what design is, could be meaningful for people who will hire designers down the road. If my projects become successful I definitely want to have real conversations with the people I hired.

I thought upvoting should be that way: one upvotes submissions one deems interesting to the HN community as a whole - not to pick sites on an argument. Did I miss something?

The appstore makes sense for Apple, because...

- quality control for end-users. Like when Nintendo started with the NES.

- cutting the middle-man out of app marketing - good for third-party developers.

Microsoft does not care for neither party. Microsofts strategy with DOS/Windows was always about tight-knit contracts with OEMs.

Anti-ripp-off software is an emerging market.

Can we agree on the notion, that suffering from déformation professionelle is generally a bad thing?

Yes, specially that the designer gets micro typography. The centered rating box is cheesy, though.

That's my experience too, except that I continue to use it. I like the fact I can configure the toolbars and the toolbar layout 100%.

Definitely the later: people in power get screened and effectively removed, despite the fact they are biased towards powers of the establishment. Where else does it go that way?

Wages are expression of price for labour. What's your price?

And how much dough do the font-designers see? Virtually nothing. Designing typefaces is one of the lesser paid design professions, albeit being one of the hardest if you want to do a good job. Foundries are just another one of those music-newspapers- obsolete by digital age industries.

As far as I understand it (the blogpost, not the linked story), the point is: listening to the whining of others is pointless.

BBedit is the best editor on the mac, by far. (ok, I am a cheapo and use emacs)

"Why did the various people..." is shorter than your comment.

Did you read the second latest 43folders.com article? It's a good write-up about the whole issue.

http://www.43folders.com/2009/04/10/free-me

The site-layout does not work too well in Opera.

I think many people don't "find" their passion, because they are afraid of what happends when they commit to follow through. So they find many things interesting, but deep down they are just dishonest to them selves out of fear. I want to argue that a good way to not only find your passion but to living it, is to tackle one's fears and eliminate them. Kill your inner daemons and the dream will appear.

Programming visual effects. Some Websites / DVDs are sort of promotion material, which is more like a brochure and less like an "internets". But programming a showcase site for a new car or a music album is a lot of work which the sane graphic designer won't go into. But he could easily, if he had a coder ready.

BTW, "lang" == german for "long"

Let me add to your post. The edge cool technology can give you only counts if the markets perceive it.

Bill Gates:

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight“.

I am in the process to build my old Amiga up to use it as dumb terminal. Best reason I could find to have one of the golden boxes aorund (and using it).

Games. All sorts of games. Boardgames, RPGs, Sports, Theater and so on. There are always game groups searching for new members and you always have the possibility to just walk away.

Flock is a total success. </sarcasm>

He could have restarted in his spare time.

What you are complaining about is not the graphic design part of the site but the web design part.

Here is the original:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots

Only that the amazing GC JWZ states as examples (Smalltalk, Lisp) are used in production ourdays.

Do you that one speech from Joe Spolsky? Where he shows _one_ slide with a scarcely dressed women on it to make a point about attention? If I remember correctly he held that speech on a prior Rails Con.

I guess that was an "inspiration" for Matt, wasn't it?

Or "vertical" tribes like some weird anime stuff or so. Consider, MLB is mainstream.