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I enjoy the design but I find it very decorative. By which I mean there are a lot of visual elements (clouds, arrows) that serve no real function and distract from the message. It's fine for a resume page but doesn't say much about your ability to design the front-end user experience of a consumer web app, except that it's possible you might spend a lot of time on glitter. Just my opinion as a fervent minimalist.
I'm imagining your Christmas cards now. THERE IS A HOLIDAY SOON. I AM ALIVE AND HAPPY. I HOPE YOU ARE ALSO. ME. Actually, that would be kind of funny. It would capture one's attention in a way that the typical cute and whimsical holiday card would not. Just as this cover letter gets one's attention in a way that a direct, factual, minimal, utterly banal and archetypal cover letter would not.
Loren wants to work at Airbnb
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Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#72love this loren good luck!
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#73Hey, I hate to be "that guy"...but since you're applying for a front-end job, here goes: - You're loading scripts in your head tag, and a crap-ton of them. At least some of these could be concat'd together. HTTP request carry a lot of overhead, so fewer is better. I bet at least some could be moved to the bottom as well, with some CSS/JS to avoid the dreaded Flash Of UnBehavioured Content. - In a similar vein, you're…
Its a one use website. I think if he had done all those things it would have been overkill.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#74Hey, I hate to be "that guy"...but since you're applying for a front-end job, here goes: - You're loading scripts in your head tag, and a crap-ton of them. At least some of these could be concat'd together. HTTP request carry a lot of overhead, so fewer is better. I bet at least some could be moved to the bottom as well, with some CSS/JS to avoid the dreaded Flash Of UnBehavioured Content. - In a similar vein, you're…
Its a one use website. I think if he had done all those things it would have been overkill.
Yea, in any other case I would agree with you.
However, considering the whole point is to apply for a front-end dev job, and the stuff I describe is SUPER easy to do. I think it's relevant. I'd think I'd want to "put up" so to speak, and say "check it out, I follow best practices".
This is really really low-hanging fruit, the sort of thing you should be doing by default basically.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#75Hey, I hate to be "that guy"...but since you're applying for a front-end job, here goes: - You're loading scripts in your head tag, and a crap-ton of them. At least some of these could be concat'd together. HTTP request carry a lot of overhead, so fewer is better. I bet at least some could be moved to the bottom as well, with some CSS/JS to avoid the dreaded Flash Of UnBehavioured Content. - In a similar vein, you're…
Perhaps it was a conscious decision not to minify and concat. - to show how he works when developing.. in which case, a comment acknowledging so might have been extra-cool. Also, although not the be all and end all in Front end decision making.. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lorenburt... just food for thought. Most are to do with unescaped ampersands in links.
> Perhaps it was a conscious decision not to minify and concat
Yea, I thought about that, but It doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of the scripts have credits that indicate they weren't written by Loren.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#76Beautiful.
I didn't realize the clouds at the top of the page were moving until after. Nice touch.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#77Lauren, what is it about airbnb that you love so much? There are a lot of amazing san francisco startups doing incredible things that would probably all love to have you on their team.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#78what i love about these types of sites is that the individuals applying realize they have to step out in front of the pack to distinguish themselves, and are showing true initiative. Far cry from the monster.com droves which send HR departments generic cover letters + resumes.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#79Hey, I hate to be "that guy"...but since you're applying for a front-end job, here goes: - You're loading scripts in your head tag, and a crap-ton of them. At least some of these could be concat'd together. HTTP request carry a lot of overhead, so fewer is better. I bet at least some could be moved to the bottom as well, with some CSS/JS to avoid the dreaded Flash Of UnBehavioured Content. - In a similar vein, you're…
One of the benefits of being on a team is that you just need one guy to know how to do all of that and everyone gets the benefit.
Re: Loren wants to work at Airbnb
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps it was a conscious decision not to minify and concat. - to show how he works when developing.. in which case, a comment acknowledging so might have been extra-cool. Also, although not the be all and end all in Front end decision making.. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lorenburt... just food for thought. Most are to do with unescaped ampersands in links.
> Perhaps it was a conscious decision not to minify and concat Yea, I thought about that, but It doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of the scripts have credits that indicate they weren't written by Loren.
Still, I think that for a job app people want to see your thought process, and minify/concat would obscure his thought process.