Comments for barry saunders

Comment on Back to work by willemrt

willemrt — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:27:45 +0000

That looks suspiciously like the Beach House on the Coast

Comment on Scratching my media itch by Justin

Justin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:34:29 +0000

I'm also a UXD and a recovering academic. Three years out of the academy, I had my first genuine peer exchange on my work a month ago! I used to talk about the different pace of coding and philosophy. The delay between composition and feedback is painfully long when writing philosophy, and refreshingly short when coding. But the cost is an overly-constrained problem-space when coding. Seems to me, UX is nice middle ground, where the subject-matter is, ultimately, human experience, but the problems are sufficiently constrained to make them fairly soluble, or at least iterable within a lifetime. Anyway, I feel your pain, and wish you the best of luck.

Comment on Scratching my media itch by Justin

Justin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:20:52 +0000

As a recovering academic who's made the shift to UX, I know your pain, and wish you the best of luck.

Comment on Scratching my media itch by Lord Herp de Derpeaux

Lord Herp de Derpeaux — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:07:43 +0000

• Maybe media isn't challenging enough for you• People in the humanities use snark and pettiness as a way to differentiate themselves; it's like a mating dance, but with passive-aggression and (generally) less colourful plumage• You could spend the rest of your life waiting to gather enough experience and/or courage to do X and still not have enough of one or both• Friends will kick your ass to wake you up they don't cut you off – although in this case, It sounds like they needed THEIR asses kicked. Maybe you should ass-kick more• Anyone should be proud to have you as a friend

Comment on Scratching my media itch by Bimyou_bimyou

Bimyou_bimyou — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:37:53 +0000

I'm proud of you in all your transitional retardedness. And i'll be happy to help with the rope cutting involved in letting go anytime *cut cut*.

Comment on Counting down by CaveatCalcei

CaveatCalcei — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:18:46 +0000

Of course everything between “other work I've been doing -” & “-was something I might consider specialising in” kind of whooshed past Concorde re-incarnated. #Techieplebeian. Awesome news Barry.

Comment on On working in cross-media environments by Counting down | Barry Saunders

Counting down | Barry Saunders — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:43:10 +0000

[...] some of you might have noticed, I’ve been evaluating my current career lately. I’ve spent a couple of years in Sydney now, and have had the luck [...]

Comment on iPad as usable, non-programmer-oriented computing by susan

susan — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:16:18 +0000

Thats me either. a non programmer class but need powerful toys.

Comment on Route around censorship? Not exactly. by barry

barry — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:01:38 +0000

mmm, that's true, but I think the point is still valid – telecommunications infrastructure isn't as redundant as people assume, and simply having faith that the structure of internet communications will allow us to simply route around censorship is distinctly problematic…

Comment on Route around censorship? Not exactly. by Will

Will — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:13:18 +0000

While I agree that Censorship should not be permitted, it's worth pointing out that Stephenson's (fantastic) article is from December 1996. The Minnesota disconnection event itself was in July 1995. Australia's position isn't as fantastic as a bandwidth geek like me might like, but we've got three true high-capacity links (all capable of terabit capacities, although none of them are running at anything like that capacity just yet though), with a bunch of others that aren't too bad either.