Ben Fry
Person on 4 sites
Designer working with data; co-creator with Casey Reas of the Processing programming environment, author of Visualizing Data, and founder of the Fathom…
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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3 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Technology purchasers for software systems are often several levels removed from the end users, leading to little market pressure for usability. (opens korrents.com)
“This isn't surprising, I assume it's just that technology purchasers are several levels removed from the doctors who have to use the equipment, which is usually the case for software systems like this, so there's…”
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In filmmaking and many other complex product development fields, creativity involves many people from different disciplines working together to solve problems. (opens korrents.com)
“However, in filmmaking and many other kinds of complex product development, creativity involves a large number of people from different disciplines working effectively together to solve a great many problems.”
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If a good idea is given to a mediocre team, they will fail, but a mediocre idea given to a great team will be fixed or replaced with something that works. (opens korrents.com)
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up; if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something that works.”
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Technology purchasers for software systems are often several levels removed from the end users, leading to little market pressure for usability. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Sierra Compass 597 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I travel frequently and take multiple spare batteries (take that, MacBook Air) and a Sierra Compass 597 EVDO from Sprint. The Sprint card makes me happy: being able to get a high speed connection in remote places has…”
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emacs (opens rcmnd.app)
“Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.”
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Processing (opens rcmnd.app)
“Most of my time is spent with Emacs, Processing, Eclipse, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.”
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Sierra Compass 597 (opens rcmnd.app)