hello, i’m 王朋. 5
i use design, art, and code 7
to make small wonders. 5
During the day, I am focused on web design and development. During the night, I am interested in exploring the intersection of visual art and software processes.
I have lived in Beijing, Miami, and San Diego. I am currently in Los Angeles.
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The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they're the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and the designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.
One time, when testing the effect that modifying the content of a selection had, I inspected the DOM tree and found a "/B" element. This was not a closing tag, there are no closing tags in the DOM tree, just elements. The nodeName of this element was actually "/B". That was when I gave up any notions of ever understanding the profound mystery that is Internet Explorer.
it was just the day before,
a dream with my white eyes open wide
in there with the sky above,
were you and a storytale that read
The long-running tech-industry war between engineers and marketers has been ended at craigslist by the simple expedient of having no marketers. Only programmers, customer service reps, and accounting staff work at craigslist. There is no business development, no human resources, no sales. As a result, there are no meetings. The staff communicates by email and IM. This is a nice environment for employees of a certain temperament. "Not that we're a Shangri-La or anything," Buckmaster says, "but no technical people have ever left the company of their own accord."
via Wired
