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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

If you're searching for a name, it looks like they're mostly in alphabetical order by surname.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...

New York Times runs Firefox ad https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-york-tim...

> The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors

My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it's cool the PDF is still around.

Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!

In the Battle of the Browsers '04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/in-the-battle-...

> the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer's market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

> You’re not your own boss, you’ve got about 30 different bosses

As a freelancer, you get to choose those bosses. Much harder to do at a regular job.

> If you’re not on twitter, it reflects poorly on you. The design community is strongly linked to the start-up and web-dev communities.

Minor nitpick: Our design community is strongly linked to the start-up and web-dev community. But other design communities exist outside of the software world :)

Good information in the article. Shared it with friends who are getting started with freelancing. I'm sure they're in a better position now than me, when I was starting out.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

> The relationships we made while running 9rules are priceless. Almost every good thing that's happened to my career since 2005 I can attribute directly to 9rules or recognition that 9rules brought me.

This goes for me, too. As a former member, I'm grateful for the work you guys put in to build the site and especially the community. I met a lot of awesome people.

Thanks for writing this breakdown. It was an interesting read. I was always curious about what happened when you guys went your separate ways.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

* Evaded a "real job" for another year

* Redesigned the admin interface for Tender (http://tenderapp.com)

* Worked with some amazingly talented people at ENTP, makers of Tender and Lighthouse (http://lighthouseapp.com)

* Moved to downtown Portland. First time in my life I've been able to walk to an office. It's a GREAT feeling.

* Refined the design of my work blog (http://neatfocus.com/blood) and food blog (http://cutandtaste.com)

* Spent too much time on Hacker News, Quora, Dribbble and Forrst

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

http://lighthouseapp.com — Bug tracking app created by 2 people. Used by businesses big and small, as well as some popular open-source projects (like Ruby on Rails)

http://tenderapp.com — Customer support app created by 2 people (out of necessity when Lighthouse started getting big).

Both apps are by ENTP. We have 2 programmers & 3 designers now and are working on redesigns for both Lighthouse & Tender. We actually just released a sneak peak yesterday: http://hoth.entp.com/2010/10/5/sneak-peek-tender-admin-2-0

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Working on a design refresh for Tender's (http://tenderapp.com) admin/supporter area. Got some snapshots on Dribbble (http://dribbble.com/players/chris) and a blog post with design decisions in the works.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks! We're getting a bunch of signups right now.

If anyone has questions about Tender, feel free to comment here, tweet @tenderapp, or email [email protected] — Will's girlfriend is in town visiting, so let's keep him as busy as possible!

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Desk with monitors: http://www.offi.com/products/tablesanddesks/D23060.php?p2c=2...

Black desk with laptop: http://www.dwr.com/product/workspace/sale/dordoni-worktop-ta...

The ENTP desks are definitely homemade: Building your own desk used to be your initiation.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Which office (Home or ENTP)?

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I split my time between...

Home office:

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

ENTP office in downtown Portland:

* http://img.skitch.com/20100322-1ry7cncxbshimmt73k6pmbd52r.jp...

* You could be in this photo. We're hiring ROR developers: http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2

1,000,000 coffee shops & hotels:

* Not pictured.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2 (Portland, Oregon)

Good timing. ENTP (Lighthouse bug tracker + Tender support) posted some Ruby on Rails job listings last night. We're a small team of 10 employees, located in downtown Portland.

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

> Are there still web designers who don't know how to code HTML and CSS?

Lots. Big agencies I know of have designers who spend all day in Adobe products and don't touch the code. These are the people creating official sites for movies, video games, Fortune 1000 brands, etc.

So it depends on where you find web designers: If it's through blogs and such, then yeah, a bigger percentage of them will also do front-end code. But from my experience, agencies tend to compartmentalize.

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Maybe it's just me, but I thought the [+] icon in the comments was a toggle to show/hide extra content, not upvote the comment.

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Yup. You can set opacity for elements in all modern browsers. IE6, too.

On some sites, I've used it as a subtle hover state for image links, so they "pop" a little. (Set the default opacity to 92% and have it go to 100% on hover.)

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

I've seen Louis C.K. live 3 times. HIGHLY recommended. He's just got it down. He could read a phone book and have the audience rolling in the aisles at this point.

He regularly updates his website & blog with show dates: http://louisck.net/

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Coincidentally, I left the bay area for Portland -- just got here 4 days ago. The past 20 years, I lived in Campbell, San Jose and Oakland. After visiting Portland for a week of vacation, I signed a lease on a loft up north.

Not sure if I've taken in enough of the new city to write an in-depth comparison. But if there's anything you want to ask, feel free.

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Haha, yes, I read this a while back.

People with good intentions have been breaking into Apple's secure buildings in two different millenia now.

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

I contracted on-site in Cupertino for a year. They have 35,000 employees, so if you're looking to join a tiny start-up where everyone is 23 years old and best friends, you're not going to find that at Apple. Actually, I used the large crowds of employees to my advantage and basically "snuck" into the offices every day for the last few months I worked there when my security badge stopped working (long/uninteresting story.)

I've never worked for a big corporation, but working for Apple is probably like working for any other company with that size of a workforce. Some people love their job, some people are bored and a lot of it depends on which group/department you're in. I was a little turned off by the cubicle/office farms in some of the buildings, which are probably setup like that due to security.

I saw Steve Jobs a few times at the cafeteria. But he did not yell at me. Or anyone else.

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

From the past 30 days on our hip-hop record label site, http://QN5.com

  Firefox: 56%
  IE: 20.7% (IE 6: 2.9%)
  Safari: 11.9%
  Chrome: 5.6%
  Opera: 2.7%
  Mobile: 2% (mostly iPhones)
  Mozilla: 1%
  Playstation, Wii, etc: 0.1%