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Ageism is real but i always had other point of view. Whats the root of this misconception? Management. Young programmers work hard, old programmers work smart. Young programmers are cheap, old are expensive. Difference is not only in mental capacity is in expertise how to approach a subject or a task. About learning in after 40: If someone has the need to learn it will happen. But if your mind is not suited for the trip, forget it, find something that gives you satisfaction and happiness..:)

I am the only one that sees totally that this product is result of work done for military? Task: Sergeant Google, use everything you have to analyze all audio streams in real time. There are multiple enemies to look for, be alert! Google: Ay, ay chief. Can i use this for my troops to order pizza? Chief: Affirmative. Do it, this is Murica, pizza is important.

Good idea. Actually this year in the same thougts direction i refused to buy iPhone X. I use iPhone SE with minimal setup of Reeder, Protonmail, Viber, Mullvad Vpn. Made shortkey to homne button for reducing white point and aded black and white color filter. I am definetely your customer base but this is what i want: 1. High res ink display. 2 Open source OS, no ties with Google. 2. Web based apps (like Palm OS). 3. Security by default, hardware encryption etc. 4. Default mail client. 5. Third party GPS / Maps/. 6 Original visual language. If someone made this, i will spend 500+ eur instantly.:)

1.Force users out of Yahoo mail accounts. Its a hellish experience. 2.Dont touch anything related to user groups. 3.Optimize Flickr design with slow accurate steps. 4.Dont unify design of two services quick. Test hard before trying to mix features. 5.If you this right, you will be the only place for professionals and amateurs. The potential is huge, but the risks are there and in the process if you make really wrong decision.... 6.Focus of this service must be professional only. And don't touch free service, because flickr is actually free first pay for more features second. Wish you luck.

Villa camera (Iskra) is a folding type rangefinder medium format that is the best mechanical camera done in USSR, it has automatic counter and leaf shutter. Optically is copy of Zeiss Tessar and is my favorite medium format camera for street photography. It gives me a felling close to M3 Leica rangefinder. Some say that Iskra is a copy of AGFA Isolette but i think that Russian version is superior. Grab one of Ebay if you are into film shooting. They are cheap and do beautiful work.

I am also designer who codes, and like the author was classically trained but switched to digital medium. You are hundred percent right, designers who cannot comprehend UX part of the medium will never be able to deliver interactive experiences, they always will see web design like it was in early 2000, visual first. But there are small portion of us that uses design language for functional purpose, we care for UX first. The visual part of designing a layout is moving away from focus, its more important to make original illustration, compelling video or audio. PS> The funny part is that those print layouts are broken in current web with 80 percent mobile web consumption:)

This, or go with idea that for some years ahead you can work with El Capitan on a old hardware. Windows for me is dead end also, until someone in pro industry realizes that its time to move to Linux. Apple is mobile and entertainment company now. Microsoft wants AI/Cloud. The logical answer is Linux.

I beg to differ: Take a look at current state of MacOS. There is nothing wrong in idea of quality control with emphasis on security, but actual os implementation lacks it. Only Apple can survive root fiasco from this year. I think that a need of commercial desktop linux distribution is present. I remember commercial SUSE 11. It was a good desktop, but targeted in a wrong direction, if someone is brave enough to target creative market with all good things that Apple is famous for, it will be more than a hit. It will be glorious. Microsoft is going in cloud/ai direction. Apple is mobile only. Desktop computing will not die so easily. Professionals need desktop, bigger screen, and reliable and expandable hardware architecture.

Finally. I was a hardcore apple fan. I believed in well thought design and optimized software. But after Jobs this company is pissing me off constantly. Stupid iWatch is device without real use case (but it was a reason iPhone to look like every other smartphone), ditching the skeuomorphic interface for flat stupidity (instead of simplifying and cleaning it), mac mini fiasco (great idea, left in the dust), mac book air (best laptop form factor, still with low quality TN display), killing of Final Cut Studio (the most comprehensive audio/video suite ever) and dumbing down the software (my friends still use Old versions of Final Cut), no Mac Pro (iMac pro is not a professional system), ditching the core user base (the reason of existence in the first place). Finally this year after staring down in disbelief at iPhone X (o god face id is the new norm) for the first time i started looking in other alternatives in smartphone market. The only device that i still cannot replace is my iPad Air 2 (media consumption and good battery life) but is questionable. This is the last drop.For me Apple is gone. It was a good ride Steve. Now its time to ditch the bandwagon, and say hello to my old Penguin friend. To all developers in the world: Start making top notch software for linux. Make it expensive and reliable. Start with Photoshop. Than Illustrator. Than Video editing and DAW systems. The hipsters like me who from years are paying for apple GUI design (now non existent in good quality and fading away every day) are ready to pay. Go find yourself The old Apple (Snow Leopard) HIG and start your engines. Big Money is coming in your face, because professional designers, videographers, composers, architects, etc. are really pissed off :)

Social media is not a problem. Tools for social internet connections are. Before all centralized tools we stayed connected with blogs, forums, etc. Fragmentation is important. Practically speaking, content is king. By giving your content to someone for free, you are creating a precedent in which, someone will explore your effort for nothing in exchange. Facebook is bottomless pit of greed. Thats why they are failing. Yes if you are technically and psychologically educated individual you can make this tools to work for you. But in a long run this is not true solution.