In a post-fact world, evidently it's the bullshit that pays the bills:
"The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce."
Thanks but no thanks, Guardian.
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I'm a principal product designer/builder, consultant and founder working remotely in Atlanta, GA, (previously San Francisco and Berkeley, CA).
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I craft UX and frontend design in the browser. Your dev team will receive clean, shippable markup & CSS that's ready to be wired up. Because handing off pretty pictures for others to build is not my style.css ;)
Frontend efficiency is only one part of a well tested process of product creation.
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"The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce."
Thanks but no thanks, Guardian.
The inventor's patent contains no moving parts, is constructed from a single piece of plastic, and is supported by a single finger when spinning. While it might be an entertaining toy, it's a completely different product.
Regarding the inventor's fundraising campaign, I think the Kickstarter platform is a poor choice given the circumstances. The current campaign is very poorly written, and gives a potential backer no confidence that the product would ever see the light of day.
A different platform without the "all or nothing" constraint would have been a better choice, and the campaign would be better structured as a direct appeal to charity. The inventor is obviously dealing with some difficult personal issues, and a flat sum of money --without the strings of a demanding production schedule attached-- would likely be far more beneficial.
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Blooger is one seemingly moribund service I wish Goggle would spend some dev time on.
I ended up with this recipe after years of trial and error. It's designed to be high in protein, devoid of sugar, high in fat, and include a small amount of low-glycemic index carbohydrates. The high fat content seems to slow down the absorbtion of the other nutrients, moderating my insulin response.
One, encountering terrain with unexpectedly sharp, immovable rocks.
Two, a suspension arm design that happens to put increased force on certain wheels when they encounter immovable rocks.
Three, the wheels have a tread pattern with a sharp, angular geometry, causing stress risers at the points of the pattern, where the thin metal meets the thicker raised treads. The thinner metal thus tends to crack more readily at these points.
(BTW, it is only this last point that I consider to be a legitimate design flaw, given the innumerable constraints the engineers had to work within. The rover is a marvel of engineering on every level.)
An article for reference.[1]
[1] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0819063...
Just minutes ago, I pushed "Send" on a resignation letter from a company that after 6 months of UX dev & design asked me to sign a similarly overly broad IP agreement. I'd been struggling with the decision, toes on the edge of the proverbial diving board for days. Reading your story gave me an extra boost and reminded me I'm making the right choice.
Here's to tipping that first domino...
Get yourself into the right mindset for interviewing and demoing your side projects, line up some interviews, and go. When you've got an offer on the table, make the jump.
Alternatively, if you have several months of living expenses as a cushion in the bank, you could find some freelance clients and then quit.
Focus on the future, stay hopeful, and get out of there. If it's only been a few months, consider not even listing this job on your resume.
One thing about the name, however, that for me now rules it out as a recommendation, is that the two words are not articulated by a consonant; the ending vowel of "Expo" blends into the beginning of "Easel".
An unfortunate pairing, at least to my ear, that when spoken quickly sounds like "Expo Weasel" :)
I'm just imagining describing the Sketch/Sketch workflow to a non-technical manager... ;)
How about calling it "Expo Studio" or "Expo Easel", which have similar connotations?
That's what makes this new turbine such a brilliant fit for our times: it can work at a small, distributed scale that to my knowledge hasn't been possible with hydro before, and at significantly reduced capital costs. Additionally, there are hardly any moving parts. Of the pieces that are required, they are intrinsically durable and easy to manufacture shapes, suitable for manufacture in relatively low-tech economies.
BTW, thanks for clarifying your initial response.
Well, if you watch TFV they show a working prototype at around the 6min mark. So it's clearly a concept worth investigating further for use as a power source.
Incidentally, your comment is the type of "middlebrow dismissal" that plagues this site. You picked one small explanatory point from a relatively poorly written article, disputed it with a source from Wikipedia, and concluded by dismissing the subject of the article, an engineer's highly promising work. [Edited]
My father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and its servicing missions, used virtually that exact wording when describing the precision of its mirror to me as a child. So that's evidently a popular metaphor for optically oriented parents :)