In hindsight, I realize that I took the relationships in my life for granted when i was younger because I always had an abundance of them in high school and college.
Back then I was very involved in church, went on ski trips, camping trips, kayaking, and participated in weekly extracurricular activities. Friends were just around all the time.
Also looking back, all of my good memories are people an experiences, not money, projects, or things - all of which education and the real world focus you on.
Now that I'm 28 and have a family, it is difficult to spend time with friends - even the ones with families as well. Everyone has jobs and lots of other commitments.
By now most of my college friends have moved away and even the ones that haven't I rarely see.
These days I make a conscious effort to attend anything I possibly can with friends, and it certainly helps.
My point is that if there are any high school/college aged people reading my advice is that you take advantage of every opportunity with friends now. Focus on quality and quantity of relationships. If you have a choice between a "B" on a project if you go out with friends and an "A" if you stay home and study, pick the former. The relationships you build will be far more useful to you in life that getting the "A."
Not saying all the fun stops, it just becomes less sporadic and further between visits with friends.
The reason I am saying all of this is because I wish someone would have told it to me...not that I would have listened anyway.
I agree, the next buttons are too invasive. I'd love to see them as left and right arrows near the edges that bold with mouseover. I think that users would be more familiar with that as well. Also love the idea to have voiceover too by another HN reader.
I too dislike screencasts. This is a great concept. Good luck.
I don't think it is a problem to use the design methods outlined in the article. In fact, Microsoft didn't invent this type of design per se. They simply coined the term "Metro" for tiled block layout. Check out "responsive design" at the link below and you will notice several similarities.
"...Do not, under any circumstances, work for free..."
Totally agree with this. It ha been my experience that well paying customers are the best kind. They are more respectful of my time and less of a headache. The people that want thing low cost or for free are happy to drain your time for really no good reason.
This theory is why I also charge a certain flat fee upfront to get started on any client work. It gets the client emotionally invested in the project since some of their money is in the pot. Most of the time when I have done things without upfront payment or free work, the client is lazy to get me necessary graphics, text, authorization, etc. to do what I said I would do. Then it still reflects badly on the freelancer.
Agreed. It is one thing to falsify customer reviews, for example, but something completely different to have several aliases to promote an active community. The information and links that were posted obviously provided value to readers. Who posted it is not quite as important. The same thing with Kevin Rose saying that digg was a friends site. People are naturally guarded against being sold to - even if the said item acutally does provide true value. People just want to decide on their own without the sales pressure.
Agreed. Keep in mind the liability aspects as well. From what I understand, payroll mistakes are not easily forgiven. That is part of the reason there are so many HR outsourcing companies.
Hack their systems. Partially joking. But in all honesty companies have hired hackers that did built something slightly destructive (in the short term) to their website/app.
Disclaimer: I would just be sure that they are a very liberal startup and might appreciate a joke otherwise you might find the FBI knocking on your door.
In a Stanford lecture, Tina Seelig said something along the lines of: find where your interests, what your good at, and the market (ie someone will pay you) intersects and do that. I've always liked that advice.
Back then I was very involved in church, went on ski trips, camping trips, kayaking, and participated in weekly extracurricular activities. Friends were just around all the time.
Also looking back, all of my good memories are people an experiences, not money, projects, or things - all of which education and the real world focus you on.
Now that I'm 28 and have a family, it is difficult to spend time with friends - even the ones with families as well. Everyone has jobs and lots of other commitments.
By now most of my college friends have moved away and even the ones that haven't I rarely see.
These days I make a conscious effort to attend anything I possibly can with friends, and it certainly helps.
My point is that if there are any high school/college aged people reading my advice is that you take advantage of every opportunity with friends now. Focus on quality and quantity of relationships. If you have a choice between a "B" on a project if you go out with friends and an "A" if you stay home and study, pick the former. The relationships you build will be far more useful to you in life that getting the "A."
Not saying all the fun stops, it just becomes less sporadic and further between visits with friends.
The reason I am saying all of this is because I wish someone would have told it to me...not that I would have listened anyway.