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the906 | 11 years ago | on: How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

Hackerspaces. Geek meetups. Get roommates, even if you can afford not to have them, join a co-op. It takes work, it sucks, but its worth it. Join a sport even if you hate them?....guy at my job has been inviting me to dragon-boating. For women...no clue, I'm gay.

the906 | 11 years ago | on: The Decline and Fall of IBM

I work for IBM's new design group and honestly I'm pretty optimistic about the future of the company (and I'm a generally a pretty big pessimist/realist). Aspects of the company have issues but many of those are being fixed/changed.

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to mock up physical products that don't exist?

Sorry for jumping a reply on this reply, its not connected but all the other reply buttons are missing?..

Go check out the architecture/industrial design realm. Paper mockups, foldable concepts, foam, clay, legos....there are a myriad of techniques to create the physical form.

Then if its electornic you have arduino/sparkcore/etc. etc. Sooo many ways that you can move through, whether its purely visual, 3d printing, etc.

Really I'd say don't jump into the 3D modeling environment. Jump into clay/foam/blocks/glue/crafting. Spend a little time there first, then get into the more precise realm. You'll thank yourself later. Iterate and develop, its the sort of thing the creators of NEST did.

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do open source projects attract more coders than designers?

Designer/Developer ish guy here. Can you give me some examples of what this would fall under? Like...inkscape? Thats open source right? Do they want/need designers? Or how could I get involved in this? (My current closest thing to this is I randomly add icons to the noun-project. Conceptually I could make money off that but not really, so I view it more as public help...now you can get an easy to use tesseract icon if anyone ever wants it!)

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Html5 Image Glitcher

Suing you for not being Accessible...jk, but you should add a button to upload, drag and drop doesn't work for everyone.

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Who's sold their Bitcoin?

I'd wanted to buy a bunch two years ago but was still a poor grad student and thought the price then was too high...i could have paid off my student loans...

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you on Dribbble?

Eh most of the designers there aren't 'good' they're just copying the current trends (is a designer works with designers)

the906 | 12 years ago | on: Pencil

A normal stylus is dumb and only does a line. This stylus allows for change in depth.
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