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I love that people keep making alternatives, but I can't shake the feeling that whatever displaces search engines won't be recognizable as a search engine.

(And I have no idea what it's going to be.)

I do this if I don't want a notification popping up on the person's computer when someone else might be looking (i.e. I don't know if they're sharing their screen, which is common on teams I work with).

Exactly.

An anecdote: I got an offer to leave my mid-level FAANG job to return to the Midwest for a VP role at a 200+ person company. The compensation was about 35% of my total comp, and it was maybe one of 3 companies in the area I would consider working for. Not to mention going back to cold winters, McMansions, and chain restaurants.

I don't think people fully appreciate the value of unenforceable non-competes + many companies congregated in one area. No where else in the world does the labor have this level of negotiating power and flexibility. Even if it can be replicated (and I hope it is!), it won't be overnight.

It's notable that a lot of people are moving, but I'd wait until at least early 2022 to make judgements about lasting impacts on SV. WFH might not stick widely, and some firms will pick a hybrid model (i.e. partial WFH) over going fully remote.

Not to mention that few places can match all the benefits of SV, i.e. unenforceable non-competes, fantastic weather and surroundings, an educated and diverse population, cultural activities, very high compensation, etc. I don't think it'll be as easy to displace SV as these articles regularly imply, despite the downsides of living here.

Related:

https://getoutcome.com

Posted in another thread, but:

http://www.getoutcome.com

This reads like a formulaic "We broke up with you" statement.

I think Nand2Tetris got this approach right:

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

I recognize several of the people in your front page screenshot [1]. They are well-known in the design community.

Did you get permission to use their photographs?

[1] http://imgur.com/a/nWbtt

Here's a bit more info on the design process:

https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident...

YouTube Kids includes kid-friendly ads:

http://mashable.com/2015/02/23/youtube-kids/

They lost me here: http://i.imgur.com/1hNk6vj.png

I just wanted to read the subscription table...

As a designer, I'd say this is correct. Many of my weeks consist of coming up with concepts, prototyping them quickly, and testing designs on users. The faster I can cycle through this, the better my designs are for users.

In other words, designers favor tools that let them prototype a high volume of designs in a short period of time. Framer lets me work faster than jQuery, and at a higher quality than tools like Axure, Fireworks, OmniGraffle, etc.

Using D3 adds a lot more power, but this approach seems far more complicated than Framer (which integrates with Photoshop and Sketch).

http://www.framerjs.com/start/

This is really cool. Could be used as an interactive documentation platform for libraries and frameworks as well.

Not many places. You can get a good Bahn Mi in the inner sunset for < $5. Also, Mehfil in SOMA has a $5 lunch special, but it's not a balanced meal.

It's creepy for the person in the ad. Many people don't like their face being used without expressed permission.

DeepField says it was a 10-15% overall drop.

http://www.deepfield.net/2013/08/googalapse/

Designer and ex-founder weighing in. One thing I felt was that we had conflicting advice and incentives.

On one hand, incubator advisors, investors, and startup writers would say:

(1) "You should read pg's essays. You have to spend more time finding a market fit. Study your users. Make that your priority."

Frequently, from the same crowd, we'd also something along the lines of:

(2) "Make decisions faster. Ship it. Execution."

My design training was well-suited to (1), and completely undermined in (2). The problem was that we heard (2) a lot more because the main people we were talking to were investors and incubator staff, and their overriding priority was having a functional product with paying customers.

Of course design processes can move faster and balance planning with execution at a startup pace. But that doesn't happen much. The more common scenario is for a designer to be shown a working prototype and then make it prettier / more usable. And maybe that's the most reliable way for startups to get off the ground? I have no idea.

Hope they use this to invest in customer service. I've been infinite-looped on their automated support line three times.

> At this point you’ve put in the time. There you go. There’s no way around that.

Interesting how the internet is changing this rule. Bo Burnham [1] became a famous YouTube comedian at the age of 16. When he started touring, his shows immediately sold out and he got a deal with MTV for a TV show. Apparently this annoyed some comedians because he didn't pay his dues [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obIGsb-IZMo

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Burnham#Uphill

Very cool!

I think it would be worth displaying each message one at a time with a delay in between (that way they could function as a sequential tour in addition to coach marks).

- It feels cramped and crowded with my inbox as a backdrop

- Vertical reading space is limited

- The toolbar is aligned at the bottom of my screen which causes me to run into the OS X dock, which I set visible on hover

- It compresses all message recipients (To, CC, ...) into a single row which makes you have to double-check if everyone's in the right place

- The formatting popover appears over your content if you want it to persist

- I feel verbally limited by its small writing area

- They haven't solved the "too many IM and compose windows are open" problem. When you get into this situation, things feel really crowded and messy.

- The hover state on the formatting toolbar "+" is jarring because the item you hovered over changes underneath you, making you (sub?)consciously worry about a misclick since it will launch a damn-obtrusive Google Drive dialog

- Between the appearance of Gmail as a whole, and this as an addition, my feeling of information overload when dealing with email has only increased. Gmail just isn't very "zen."

Now I regret wording the title this way. Hope it doesn't confuse too many people.

Just realized the title was misleading so I removed the word "render."

I don't think the calligraphy is rendered automatically at the moment. Looks like the author is doing it manually. I'm guessing automatic rendering is planned, but not sure of that.

For the curious, Qlb means "Heart" in Arabic.

Here's Conway's Game of Life: http://twitpic.com/bv2cra

Interesting concept. It actually has some of the ideas we'll be introducing in Wikipedia's mobile website (specifically some of the sidebar functionality).

Interesting. It surprises me that many tech entrepreneurs dismiss UX methods as fluff when they were designed to accomplish this exact goal.

I believe it's Bebas. http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/bebas

Edit: "Typeface is custom, but based on proportions in Blanch." [1]

[1] http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=blanch