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namank··on What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?
Do the accessibility options help?
namank··on What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?
Skeuomorphism was important to transition users from physical objects to virtual objects in a meaningful way. It enabled you and I to understand what tap/touch/pinchNzoom etc are.

Now that we know what virtual objects are about, we can move to a design scheme that's made for virtual objects.

I inherently don't like the phrase 'Flat Design' - there is so much more to this.

namank··on What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?
Nothing wrong with it. It's just time to move on, boeing 777 came after the glider; 7 came after 6; this comes after skeuomorphism.
namank··on iOS 7
This was inevitable.

What bothers me is the disconnect between the icons for Safari, Settings, and Compass. They don't mesh with each other.

namank··on German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages
I question the authenticity of this article.
namank··on Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders
I have no sources but I'd be willing to bet that so do India and China.
namank··on You can't impress developers
Developers are critical thinkers. If the person hasn't evolved enough to account for the notion of being human; or if the context is such that critical thinking implies critiquing without appreciation, you get what the OP is complaining about. HN is definitely the latter since comments in this community are largely reserved for criticism while the appreciation is (usually) limited to upvotes.

I want to say it's the nature of the game but that's simply not true, we take pride in being assholes. For Brython, while I was appreciated the amount of work and the complexity that went into it, I was unimpressed by the methodology.

namank··on Why is the moon’s gravity so uneven?
Earth's radius is 3.7 times moon's; volume is 54 times. This difference may translate to the difference in phenomenon.
namank··on Apple betrayed by its own law firm
My argument's premise is that Apple is not a patent troll - the notion of poetic justice isn't quite applicable here.

Not saying anything about the lawyers.

namank··on Apple betrayed by its own law firm
They invented the stuff they protected. The system, as it stands, only works if the owner of the patent/trademark/IP takes step to defend it.
namank··on I took the $300K
Thats negotiation of terms, not the money.
namank··on Dear Dumb VC
While I appreciate where you are coming from, I actually prefer the blog post's vernacular when operating in the startup world. Where language is deliberately used as a mask, it's refreshing to hear things presented in the straightforward manner - it does away with the complexity for which there is little time on either side, the entrepreneur's & vc's.
namank··on Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job
Mike L, founder of Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) dropper out with two months left in graduation (from a world-renowned electrical engineering degree). So did, I think, Robert Downy Jr.

"preserving the bridge" only makes sense to an outside observer. It may never be a practical option for the OP. In fact, it may be something that may taint OP's identity for the future in that he/she may always be stereotyped as a doctor. It'll be contested every time he meets someone new. It's nothing short of an identity crisis. It's the loss of freedom to do what he wants.

People like this usually try to live life in accordance with self-defined principles rather than those defined by the social structure. They think different.

namank··on Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job
Hahaha, this is great! 3 weeks ago, I turned down some fairly decent jobs for my startup and let my parents know the fact. They were very supportive, pointing out only that I be doing it for the right reasons.

One point of contention may be that we, or at least I, have much much more in the way of opportunities in that I can realistically dream of an ambition that my parents did not have access to. It's deceptively understanding of them to be able to not only comprehend this but also support me in it and for this I am thankful.

namank··on Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
Leave now. Get a 9-5 for at least the next 6 months, which should give you enough time to get to back in the real world. Then, the world is at your keyboard!

If you don't have an IP clause in the contract, take the IP with you.

namank··on Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft
The real concern would be if login credentials were sent through Skype and Microsoft used those to gain unauthorized access.
namank··on On the cusp of something big
While this philosophy is what sustains the entrepreneurial spirit, I think most people get int the game because they got an itch to scratch.
namank··on Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer
"understanding of usability and how people will see, interpret, feel, and use your product"

This is the foundation of design (all kinds) and, what I think, the post is about.

namank··on Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
I bet big corp would pay the design firm designing their intranet big bucks to buy this.
namank··on Go Hard Early
Define "thinking".
namank··on Dear YC companies, I responded. You could do the same.
I started doing a litmus test with a 1-3 liner where I give them points for professionalism/courteousness. The ones that pass are amazing people to get to know, not just work with. Though I might be generalizing too much, I found it separates the ones with sincerity.

It's not just YC, it's founders all over.

namank··on Go Hard Early
Well, but there IS something to be said for letting the idea simmer. Isn't that where ideas come from?
namank··on How My Co-founder's Dog Boosted My Productivity
I'm guessing you don't have kids!

Taking care of another living thing can be wondrous for the self in so many ways!

namank··on Rules for Managing Creative People
This is how NOT to manage creative people.

The guys took characterizations of a creative person and applied the norms of traditional hierarchical management to them. It's like when you patch a bug..he patched everything about the creative person without actually looking at the big picture. I cannot believe this is on a normative source like HBR.

namank··on Google Paid This Man $100 Million
Wonder how it worked out...

Did he hand in his resignation and was asked to reconsider? Did he tell them he wanted more money? Did they find out about the twitter offer from outside sources and arrange for the bump?

How did the semantics play out?!

namank··on Talk about the problem, not the solution
OP, what are your motivations behind this?

Anyways, this is right on the money. Finding the problem is an art in itself. It's only once we find the root problem that we can design the holistic solution, otherwise it's a whole bunch of patched held together by desperation and neediness.

Example: if it turns out poverty is related to global warming and for the past decade we've spend resources trying to rid poverty in isolation, we are all sorts of screwed.

This is exactly the job of a Product Designer.

namank··on Intrade discovers a $700k cash shortfall
Why filing? As method for backing up IP?
namank··on Show HN: TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts
Excellent! I've been working on something similar. Trying to come up with a schema that is data-centric is hard enough let alone focusing on the ease of use by developers. Good luck!

Can I send how many requests I want?, I think you might mean Can I send as many requests as I want? ?

namank··on How I Used ADD to Build Great Businesses
Go for a run.
namank··on JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
Umm...ok. So what is the assembly of the web?

I feel like the author should be given a lesson in rhetoric.

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