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9:43 AM
@ZachSaucier I have stock comment that links to this post, with all kinds of font-id resources the askers can try first.
 
 
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11:56 AM
@joojaa Every time I see digital camera online I start to look on prices. Just want to have mine upgraded but don't know which to buy. Canon S120 or Nikon P7700 (P7800 maybe?) or Fujifil XQ1 or buzz-worthy Sony RX10...
 
 
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1:46 PM
I feel like I'm always the bad guy these days. Maybe I should just ignore some of these terrible questions instead of trying to help for a while
 
2:13 PM
I only saw your first comment (thumbnail question, right?), and that was somewhat blunt but valid
 
There was something similar yesterday and the guy got all pissed off
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Q: Unpaid internships: are they worth it?

S NI finished school couple of months ago and I am looking for a job and have little to no experience working in graphic design field. I am offered unpaid internship for 2 weeks - 1 month but I am not sure whether to take it. The employer said it could lead to full-time job. I'm bummed about workin...

 
@Ryan I just deleted/annotated 6 answers in a row. I'm a villain.
 
@Yisela maybe we're just getting worse questions these days as the holidays approach
 
@Yisela but that was already a known factor. You're just here to become the GDSE dictatrix.
we will all, sooner or later, bow to the horrible queen Yisela :P
well, I do think that the 'help me, now' requests are at least still there
 
haha
don't you think this question should be kept separate from the duplicate? It already has two very nice answers
 
2:20 PM
argh
ninjad by @Yisela
 
ninjad - is that a verb?
 
I see it on some fora
 
I hadn't seen the comments, forget me
(re the duplicated question)
 
hmm when I condense the page (make the window smaller) I'm working on it behaves strangely and then when i make the window full screen again it continues to behave strangely. Never seen something like this :\
 
@Ryan I edited your comments into two bigger ones, to clean the question a little. Hope you don't mind (I didn't get rid of anything, just moved stuff)
 
2:25 PM
@Yisela I don't mind at all your highness
Isn't it interesting that Highness and Heinous are so similar, coincidence, I think not!
 
-.-
@Ryan careful, Sir
 
chuckle
 
do we have a question about "how to get your ass moving when you feel like doing zero design"?
 
yep
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A: How do you break out of current creative mind sets?

RyanWell since you all are leaving the question open here's my genuine answer: When I run out of ideas I like to do things like booze, sex, go to the beach, read, write, paint, sculpt, dance, travel. My mind has never been expanded less then when trying to force expansion while stuck. //Edit Wante...

 
now that I'm back freelancing I need group design therapy
 
2:30 PM
oh, can I join? :/
 
@Ryan Thanks!
 
Sure thing! You seem to be doing better than me, you get to travel all the time
 
hehe, nice answer, @Ryan
 
It's one of my top answers on the site :) Too bad it wasn't approved haha
 
any of you ever read A Whack on the Side of the Head?
 
2:32 PM
hahaha
no
 
People think its a joke, but seriously. Go enjoy life. Can't be creative without experiencing the world in my opinion. There's entire books and scholarly research to support this too
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it's a great book to find creativity and think creatively in all kinds of circumstances
@Ryan star'd
for sheer truth
 
I fully agree, but sometimes you do need to sit down and work (especially in winter, zero money to go out or BUY BOOZE and a pile of pending work)
 
and sometimes, it's nice to be productive when there's no deadline as well
 
aaaand other times it's nice to not do anything regardless
:D
 
2:39 PM
I love this Lollipop update, it makes me want to design with Polymer or at least in the style of. Either of you on Android and update to Lollipop yet?
 
@Ryan Was this directed at me? I don't travel all the time! Well, at least, not for holidays!
 
I do own an Android, but I haven't seen any lollipops yet
 
@Yisela Correct me if I'm wrong but in the last few years haven't you been to New Zealand, Germany, Argentina... that's not exactly bad
@Vincent Not sure which devices it's out for, and if you own a 3rd party like Samsung how noticeable it is. I'm on Google Nexus. They released it for Nexus 9 and now the other ones as well (I'm on 5)
 
@Ryan I had to start from zero on every one of those places, not saying it wasn't my choosing and I didn't enjoy it, but it wasn't easy
 
@Ryan I'm on an HTC Desire, and I'm very prone to postpone updates.
 
2:45 PM
@Vincent If it gives you the option to update to v5 (Lollipop) you should take it. Biggest update in years and really very nice.
 
hm. will have to take a peek
 
@Ryan I have a galaxy 4, do I still get the update?
 
no update available on my htc yet.
 
@Yisela gottabemobile.com/2014/11/24/samsung-galaxy-lollipop-update-2 seems to think S5 will be released sometime soon but not S4
Why'd you all go with 3rd party phones instead of buying direct from Google?
 
@Ryan one word: cheap.
 
2:50 PM
@Ryan I have a crush on Samsung
 
what? Cheaper than direct? Big discount with a contract or something?
 
@Ryan nope, just went to a local phone shop and got what my budget allowed me.
never thought about direct
 
yeah, me neither actually
I first got a cheap galaxy, then I escalated
but I really can't complain, I love that phone
 
I did my homework and didn't want to be leasing my phone. Cheapest way to own it outright was to buy direct. If after two years I want a new one, I'll buy direct again and sell or use this one for art projects. If I keep it for longer though it still works: play.google.com/store/devices
Might be different where you all are though in terms of leasing phones
@Waffle'sCrazyPeanut morning
 
it's good to know that Samsung actually make good smartphones. Back in the dumbphone days, I had one of theirs... for a week.
 
2:55 PM
Devices on gplay are not available in my country
can't even see the page
 
@Ryan Actually, it's night here :)
Silly me... The last time I logged into this site was when it was in the beta/
 
I shouldn't have looked at the device page. Now I want this
 
hm. that doesn't even show up for me
I do see some stuff, bu not the watch
...why the big '24' on top?
it suggests this being a 24-hour plate as opposed to a 12-hour one
 
It's all digital, that's just an OLED screen. You can set it to be anything you'd like
But looking at the other images, I think it's the date, 24th. Poor decision to use that date cause it is confusing
 
then still.
ah!
 
3:05 PM
 
check
 
these are really nice
what's the name of that thing? I can't see any
 
ASUS ZenWatch. Its out of stock at least on the Google Store. Costs $200 which I guess isn't too bad considering the cost of watches and electronics
There's one showing more widget
 
huh? I get the 1000 steps, but I wonder what the smiley and the droplets are supposed to mean?
'times you lol'd today'?
 
Could be anything. 10 SMS Messages? 22% humidity? Who knows :\
 
3:12 PM
10 tinder notifications
 
lol
 
I just installed the SE app on my phone so now I get notifications on my lock screen
@Yisela yep. I've been working off of their entire theme for my company's redesign
 
sigh
 
We have a long "product guide." I'm debating if in addition to the separate pages there should be a single page that compiles all of the information.
@Vincent whats wrong?
 
3:15 PM
Hmm I know that 10:10 is the default time to use when displaying watches, is Feb 24th the default date?
 
I can't help but feel that Google is infringing on my work--it's creating al these styles and guides, and every client and their sister will want me to 'do it like Google's material design, but then a bit different'. Forgetting that I'm perfectly capable of creating my own style and colour palette.
 
@Ryan if it's online it might be taken as duplicated content
 
What are we, designers or Google drones?
 
maybe a PDF to download?
drones
 
and finally, when you master Material, Jobszilla comes up with a new style for their new line of machines, and everyone will want us to design juuuuust like that.
</rant>
 
3:19 PM
I imagine designers in the 20s also had clients saying "I want it just like this thing I saw"
 
@Yisela Already have it as a .pdf, trying to get it all online. Realized I was was working that I might be taking the wrong approach so now trying to figure the right approach out
 
@Ryan are you using a CMS?
 
@Yisela nope
 
cause then it would be easy to create them as pages/posts and then shortcode them from another article
 
@Yisela Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to being inspired by what I see. But with especially google documenting their styles publicly instead of hogging them as private property, everyoone is going to expect you to use it.
or at least be able to
 
3:22 PM
I don't see any harm in having them both separated and together, as long as you keep it consistent in your navigation
@Vincent Yes, but I think it happens with other bosses as well, right? When I was working for a microsoft partner everything had to be Windows 8, Segoe, blocks
 
I still have nightmares of the days when I worked for a boss who wanted everything to be 'web 2.0'.
 
hahaha
 
...when that style was already old enough to be dated
 
@Vincent thats funny cause I was just thinking about this while eating breakfast this morning --- Google prides itself on being free and open source but really the vast majority of its stuff is closed, proprietary. Nobody gets to know their SERP Algorithm. You can't truly hack Lollipop or Chrome however you want. They provide APIs to develop with, but not the source to do whatever you want to.
 
@Ryan AND they closed Reader.
 
3:26 PM
yeah but my lollipop update included "Keep" which makes me happy. Might be available on KitKat too for you all
 
didn't know it. Any idea if there is an extension for chrome to combine it with?
 
looks like it - just to be clear this isn't like Reader though. It's a note app
 
yeah, I know! But I've been looking for a simple note saver with extension that I can use for GDSE comments
evernote has an extension to save stuff, the problem is accessing it
 
eh, good one. I find myself not reviewing some queues on mobile 'cause I can't paste comments
 
The only thing on Lollipop I'm not sold on is the Calendar. The week view was changed so you only see 5 days at a time. It's a little weird. Might actually be better once I get used to it though, too early to tell
 
3:36 PM
do you usually have stuff on weekends?
I never used calendars outside work... but it sounds like you should be able to configure it
 
Competitions, hair cuts, trips, meetings, festivals all sorts of stuff
@Yisela I just got Keep to work and sync between my phone and computer.
 
4:05 PM
@Vincent how are your babies?
 
@Yisela almost grown up
neutered, past 4kg apiece
and great :)
 
awwww
are they friendly?
 
very much so
 
:)
my cats were always crazy
you know what they say about that...
 
the neutering made the one that wasn't too prone to sit in your lap change his mind
 
4:08 PM
hehe
 
so now we each have a cat or our lap during dinner :/
and they seem to have a preference: one of them realy draws to me, the other to my bf.
 
hahaha
awesome
 
did your cats become crazy while they were your owners, or were they already crazy before that?
 
I got them both very small and from the street, so... I'm not sure. Maybe they were traumatized by it
 
eh. :/ and what kind of crazy behaviour did they display?
 
4:16 PM
Nice answer @Ryan
 
@Yisela thanks
 
@Vincent apart from the typical I-love-you-hate-you that all cats carry around, they would jump scared out of nowhere, or attack when they had only received luuuuv
 
ah, nasty
 
awh. looks like a missy with an opinion :)
are you planning on getting a new cat to be owned by?
 
4:28 PM
nope, not for now
I wish I could
 
you're welcome to come and pet these two :)
 
I will! next year
 
@Yisela are you still playing Hearthstone? Have you been following Goblins vs Gnomes?
 
@Ryan No, haven't played in months
what is that? new solo adventure?
 
expansion pack - 120 new cards. Comes out sometime in December, they've been slowly showing cards
 
4:35 PM
hehe -- now you know how I feel four times a year for Magic :)
 
:( My SE app on the phone doesn't notify me when I get rep. What's the fun in that
 
5:08 PM
...that you get a big surprise when you log on using a computer again :)
 
5:34 PM
@Ryan ooooh nice
 
@Yisela que?
 
the new decks
 

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