Allen Brunson
2005-12-15 13:15:00 UTC
okay, i've decided i want to write programs "the mac way." really beautiful,
lots of graphics, full compliance with the hig (except in cases where it
doesn't make sense), the whole ball of wax. to that end, i need to work with
a ui designer. i've asked steven if he wants the job, but i've got a feeling
he won't. that means i'm going to be looking for somebody who has strong
opinions about how mac programs should work, and is willing to design the
windows and icons and the user interaction pathways and so on, and tell me how
it will work, so i can write the code for it. i'm a pretty good programmer,
but i am not a ui designer, and i have no desire to learn. if somebody who's
reading is interested, i can't pay for this by the hour, i'll just split the
money from registrations with you. you'll have to be willing to think of it
as an investment in the future, which is the way i've approached the program
all along.
the practical upshot is that there's no reason to do translations right now.
if i get my way, i'll be ripping up the whole program pretty soon, and it will
look completely different, and would have to be translated AGAIN. nobody
wants that.
as long as i'm making a post, i *finally* got macosx 10.4 recently. i guess
the last straw was the fact that google earth won't run on 10.3 or earlier. i
installed it on a separate partition, but i'm not using it yet. i've got a
ton of stuff i need to move around before i can use that partition as my main
one. and after trying it for a few hours, there's really nothing in 10.4 i
want to use all that badly, as i expected. well, maybe they've fixed a few of
the xcode bugs that drive me out of my mind, that might be enough motivation
to switch.
i'm thinking pretty seriously about starting to work on pmail now. part of
the reason i have been dragging my feet on filtering is that i personally have
no use for it. a lot of people annoy me and i plonk them, that's the extent
of my filtering. i *really* want to use pmail, though. i've been using a
crummy ms program for e-mail in virtual pc for years now, and i am sick of it.
lots of graphics, full compliance with the hig (except in cases where it
doesn't make sense), the whole ball of wax. to that end, i need to work with
a ui designer. i've asked steven if he wants the job, but i've got a feeling
he won't. that means i'm going to be looking for somebody who has strong
opinions about how mac programs should work, and is willing to design the
windows and icons and the user interaction pathways and so on, and tell me how
it will work, so i can write the code for it. i'm a pretty good programmer,
but i am not a ui designer, and i have no desire to learn. if somebody who's
reading is interested, i can't pay for this by the hour, i'll just split the
money from registrations with you. you'll have to be willing to think of it
as an investment in the future, which is the way i've approached the program
all along.
the practical upshot is that there's no reason to do translations right now.
if i get my way, i'll be ripping up the whole program pretty soon, and it will
look completely different, and would have to be translated AGAIN. nobody
wants that.
as long as i'm making a post, i *finally* got macosx 10.4 recently. i guess
the last straw was the fact that google earth won't run on 10.3 or earlier. i
installed it on a separate partition, but i'm not using it yet. i've got a
ton of stuff i need to move around before i can use that partition as my main
one. and after trying it for a few hours, there's really nothing in 10.4 i
want to use all that badly, as i expected. well, maybe they've fixed a few of
the xcode bugs that drive me out of my mind, that might be enough motivation
to switch.
i'm thinking pretty seriously about starting to work on pmail now. part of
the reason i have been dragging my feet on filtering is that i personally have
no use for it. a lot of people annoy me and i plonk them, that's the extent
of my filtering. i *really* want to use pmail, though. i've been using a
crummy ms program for e-mail in virtual pc for years now, and i am sick of it.
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A free market interprets monopoly as damage and routes around it.
-- Paul Graham
A free market interprets monopoly as damage and routes around it.
-- Paul Graham