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Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates

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Post by pclark »

zakkap wrote: post #11
mwsherman wrote: post #9

Working with designers is an important and underrated thing for developers. I worked at a design firm for years and learned an awful lot. It's a great selling point too. Many web projects suffer from, shall we say, a bit of friction between design and implementation. I sell myself to potential clients on my respect for, and ability to communicate with, designers. Knowing a designer's vocabulary will make you better a…

I agree. I don't know if you checked out the link, but I designed and coded that in about one hour. I may not be a designer - but I definitely speak their language!

did you read your designer spec? it simply says "inspirational, loves photoshop and already using CS5" as a designer thats 0% content

Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates

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Post by pclark »

I think this is a clever idea. I know of a few people that have pondered getting housemates that have a specific skill set in addition to a good vibe.

I think you've missed the single most important requirement for a "kickass roomate" - has got non-work stuff finished and launched.

I would also advise you to scrap all the development/design criteria of tools, and focus on attitudes and passions. Like look for a hacker developer, and a designer that is obsessed with user experience. Any man and his dog can use a collection of tools but that makes them neither a developer nor kickass.

You might also want to put a link to a web product you've finished (you state "i develop web applications not only for work, but for fun. it takes up most of my time.") -- you have launched stuff right? :)

Good luck man.

Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates

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Post by truebosko »

Cool idea. Personally, I would make note of somewhere in that ad of how clean you are.

Hacking away all night with some buds is cool and all, but not when your sink is full of dishes and your floors haven't been wiped in weeks ;)

Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates

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Post by samd »

random42 wrote: post #26
zakkap wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not looking for "2 copies" of myself... There are a lot of people on this thread who think what I'm doing is a good idea. Please explain why that moving in with a physics major and a poet is a better idea than what I have proposed?

Because you can talk/discuss something other than computer science / software development to them, hence you would not be limit your learnings in one direction. I, for one, would not like to bring what I do for living to my home. If I need to discuss my CS ideas, I can find likeminded people at other places, (say where I work/study), but living with "like minded" people 24 X 7, is not something I'd like to do. (Unles…

You are severely oversimplifying people. There is nothing that prevents a software developer from writing poetry, or a poet from designing websites. Interesting people have a wide range of hobbies and interests.

Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates

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Post by mjw »

Hm... might work ok if the hacking on projects together aspect of it was relatively low-pressure/low-commitment stuff, pitch in if you have time and find it interesting but don't guarantee anything.

But otherwise mixing two big-ish commitments (living together stuff, work stuff) could lead to some unpleasant friction if things don't go well.

Sometimes you do want a bit of separation between 'work time' and 'home time', not to have to feel accountable to work people about the way you spend your home time and vice versa.

I did live with the freelance designer from my work for a bit though. It worked ok because work is in the office, so pretty clear separation of work time and home time. But not really the same situation as you describe.

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