mnicole

How technical or not you are has nothing to do with how much you care about the security of your email. LI is just hoping that they'll gain trust by being open about their process because they're counting on that "transparency" to help people feel comfortable about installing it.

As a designer, this whole process is degrading, frustrating and reminiscent of the worst clients I've had throughout my career. I'm not sure if they are trying to make it look like they want to appease the people, but if I were working in-house over there, watching all of these awful designs roll out would just crush me and make me question what they think my worth is. I'm hoping the whole thing turns out to be a joke.

Agreed. As a designer, I don't want to waste space with this for two form inputs, not including the CVV. On pages asking for your CC information, there's generally a lot more than just this going on, and the possibility it creates confusion for those who think it is merely a graphic representing a card, and not part of the process itself, during the most important aspect of the sale just doesn't fly with me.

I viewed the site on in Chrome on a rMBP and it looked and loaded just as poorly. There's no excuse for having basic fallbacks or a preloading mechanism.

When I first moved to Portland, I lived on the same block as a wonderful little local coffee shop that served Stumptown. Man I love Stumptown. I would go there all the time, sometimes twice a day. The coffee and the food were great, but only right before I moved did they employ someone with a personality that would remember the only order I would ever get there.

When I started going to the Starbucks near my old office instead, within a week they knew my name, they know my [custom] drink, they know what I do and what my plans are for the weekend without sounding fake or pretentious and despite being one of the busier locations in the city. For me, it's customer experience, and Starbucks really emphasizes that in their training process. My taste buds preferred the local shop, but my money went to the company where the employees actually looked up at me and smiled and engaged me.

I also know they have really great benefits for their employees and with sites like mystarbucksidea.com, they at least pretend to give credence to the ideas of their customers (although they've implemented quite a few of them, they've been incredibly stingy about buying hemp milk).

To me it's more about who deserves the reward. $1.99 might not be a monetary tragedy, but it's giving someone a pat on the back that they may not deserve and asking for a refund for that amount just seems petty, so I'd rather do the research and encourage the best dev with my dollars.

Seriously. The first thing I do if I strongly like or dislike an article is click the name/avatar to get more information about the author to better understand their background. Medium pushes me onto a page with the rest of their articles instead of a profile and I then have to hope that I can use Google to find their Twitter or website based on the small amount of information in their user blurb (because it doesn't force them to include either).

I love Chris Coyier for everything he's done for the front-end community, but between his CSS-Tricks layouts and Codepen.io, his aesthetic is much to be desired.

While I agree that it would have been nice, I don't think it was an oversight. In addition to the link posted on how they found people, it's also a bit of a double-edged sword as women are less likely to apply for these types of things. This is their very first attempt; it's experimental. I'm sure when they have more faith in their product/the training, they can spend more time trying to find people from varying backgrounds to highlight.

Once you —, you never go back.

Having just had my boyfriend switch from 24/7 at-home freelance to working at his shop 7 days a week, this woman doesn't seem to understand the benefits she reaps from having someone at home and on-call most of the time (Do they have pets? Does he run errands? Is he there when maintenance shows up?). Not only this, but his mood has lowered and stress levels have skyrocketed, and given that I wake up at 6am and he doesn't get home until 8 or 9pm, we hardly spend time together anymore.

Depending on your drive, you can waste anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours+ a day commuting to and from, as oppose to using that time more efficiently or memorably.

Are there benefits to working from some office settings? Sure, but trying to claim he's less of a man for doing so is really the lowest and most absurd claim she could make. If she can't see that him being his own boss is better and more effective for him than having one, she's missing the point, the privilege and the potential.

No matter what it was, did he learn from it? That's what matters in my book. If he was older, I might care more about the specifics of what he did since I think a lot of people get too comfortable with the lies they build around themselves and appearances they need to keep up, especially professionally. But he's young and he's learning how to hack it in two industries where going at it alone is both rewarding and daunting, and of course you'll mess up somewhere, especially when you have much less experience, both professionally and in life.

That said, if it was something more malicious than what you mentioned, then it would be worth looking into.

What a great idea; a lot less intimidating than doing it on your own or one-on-one. Interested in seeing how this plays out.