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bobulate.com 3y ago

Designing for Improvisation (2010)

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Anybody Here Work with or for a UK Innovator Visa Endorsing Body?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Who/What is best UK immigration attorney for an American startup?

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blog.pieratt.com 11y ago

A 3-step process for naming a project/product. (And some resources)

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Startups for Startups, Health Innovation for the Self Employed?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Do people still read the web in F-Shaped patterns?

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blog.jackcheng.com 14y ago

The Keyframe Bias

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edge.org 15y ago

The Argumentative Theory

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ma.tt 15y ago

Matt Mullenweg on Multi-WAN Routers

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log.scifihifi.com 15y ago

The Birdfeed Easter Egg That Never Was

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psmith.posterous.com 15y ago

I Know About Old Things

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www.contrast.ie 15y ago

There are no small changes

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sethgodin.typepad.com 16y ago

Ism Schism

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alexbogusky.posterous.com 16y ago

Why Are Our Cars So Dumb?

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startupquote.com 16y ago

StartupQuote.Tumblr

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www.wired.com 16y ago

Darpa to Develop Flying Cars by 2015

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kennedysgarage.com 16y ago

How Do You Charge?

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www.copyblogger.com 16y ago

The Power of Focused Generosity

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bobulate.com 16y ago

Designing for improvisation (2010)

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www.wilsonminer.com 16y ago

The Optimizer

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blog.frankchimero.com 16y ago

How To

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jakelodwick.tumblr.com 16y ago

Jakob Lodwick on his site: Hybrowse - Tag-based search

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srobbin.com 16y ago

Easy Full Screen Background Images w/ jQuery

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blog.frankchimero.com 16y ago

Utility Ambiguity

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www.boxesandarrows.com 16y ago

Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

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bobulate.com 16y ago

Just Hope

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theglueproject.com 16y ago

Caterina Fake (flickr) on Community... Part 2

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foursquare.tumblr.com 16y ago

Foursquare API is Live

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www.feld.com 16y ago

Eliminate Ranges from Your Negotiating Vocabulary

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www.boxesandarrows.com 16y ago

Integrating Prototyping Into Your Design Process - Using appropriate fidelity

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I really try hard not to be down on stuff like this, to let it pass uncommented, but the mere creation of this site is evidence that creator missed the point of the original that they derived it from.

They don't have to actively cultivate it but they should remove the walls between it. There's a lot of red tape/administrative confusion at most schools if you want to do anything interdisciplinary, especially if you want to cross more than two disciplines. Institutions should be more like buffets for the polymath. If I want to interlink say landscape architecture, sculpture, acoustics, materials science and biology I shouldn't need more than one signoff much less the 5 it would probably take to do work in something like that at most universities.

Never seen anything like it really. Over a £12mm handout they chopped the head off one of the most important visa endorsing bodies with no real plan to replace it. I'm sure they'll scramble to find one but the absolute madness of it absolutely reflects the entirety of what's going on in UK government at the moment.

In the interest of moving the Overton window, I've yet to hear a good, logical reason why we don't allow the free movement of people between administrative states.

You know how everyone shouts learn to code? To coders/founders I say learn to design. Or give more of your equity than you think you should to a designer. The nice thing about design is its pretty easy to see examples and references and most designers would actually be happy to work at a start up from the beginning as part of the founding team, its just that in a lot of the tech world designers aren't viewed as integral until after the fact and really the track record of design-led startups and your reaction to ones that are polished out of the gate should indicate otherwise. Contrary to what OP said /u/iMuzz isn't really even a unicorn designer, there's plenty just like them, you've just got to decide its important and find a way to invest time, money, or effort.

Everyone always writes these and yet I've seen very few ever talk about how to decide what's worth showing up for or how to get a working hypothesis of an animating principle for your own existence. It'd be remarkably useful to have a working framework for how to figure out what to want, especially targeted at smart people with top level talents in several areas.

If you design and sell tshirts globally on the internet or freelance copy edit for clients in and out of country or exhibit and sell your art internationally these are all sorts of things that are not in competition with local employment but currently have limited movement and residency options. They're not pure examples but I think they work for what people are typically concerned with when it comes to immigration and residency.

This shouldn't just be for the remotely employed. We need to do more decouple freedom of movement from employment by a company.

Perhaps there should be something like this: An International Creative or Digital Visa that countries can sign onto.

This proposal is a good start for what it should be: http://artsvisa.org/ireland/

Have something to contribute. Be able to support yourself. Don't compete for an in country job and any country should welcome your residence/citizenship.

There's no reason something like this doesn't exist in a global digital age.

Orthodox Privilege 6 years ago

I can't think of a TRUE statement that you'll be cancelled for. I can think of a lot of opinions presented as truths that will get you cancelled. For my edification, can you all please present some hypothetical examples of current TRUE statements that cannot/should not be said?

Something like "Fat people are a burden on a healthcare system" is true and won't get you cancelled.

Something like "Trans people are currently the gender they were born" is a philosophical opinion and might get you cancelled but whether its true or not is a sort of Ship of Theseus problem.

Something like "Donald Trump has a low IQ" may impede your work progress but that has its own implications about cancel culture that aren't what we're talking about.

So please for the sake of argument, show me an actual truth that will get you cancelled. Seriously looking for examples...

We need 20 to 30 million tests a day to "restart" America. We can produce at that level, but we're not. We can debate the moral choices once someone in charge shows some competence. Until then it's basically insanity to have a defined solution and not attempt it. We're in a hole and debating throwing other people into holes instead of mass producing ladders.