Anyone concerned with cost of living should not be considering a condo downtown. Overall the COL in detroit is around 45% lower for real estate and over 25% cheaper groceries versus new york. There will always be overpriced condos available.
Isn't everyone concerned with cost of living? Isn't there a whole game of life where we all find some comfortable CoL and salary balance?
That's why salary via CoL never made any sense to me. It should be based on how hard people want to work.
These "it's cheaper in Michigan" ideas -- yeah you can come up with a boring lifestyle that is dirt cheap. I'm just in Michigan already. It's hard to leave. I'm a global dude. I travel domestically. I invest. These things don't have Michigan prices.
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"Pricing wise, we haven’t noticed anything that distinguishes Linux users from everyone else. They are no more cost conscious than Mac / Windows users. They are definitely willing to pay for software."
As an on-again/off-again linux user, I have paid for software or donated to many projects and it seems others are willing to do the same, however it is still a much much smaller group.
I love this. Reminds me of other articles about "flow" when you are so engaged you lose track of time.
This happens for me when solving hard problems. I can't stop thinking about it and work from the moment I wake up to when I go to bed. It looks like hard work, but it's energizing.
I like what Uncle Bob said about "the flow" (or "the zone"):
> Here’s a little hint from someone whose been there and back: Avoid the Zone. This state of consciousness is not really hyper-productive and is certainly not infallible. It’s really just a mild meditative state in which certain rational faculties are diminished in favor of a sense of speed.
Don't forget, the material design specifications and frameworks are being made freely available. When you compare interfaces designed by that vast majority of developers, using MD is an enormous step up in usability and functionality. It also incorporates concepts that, while not being the most "accessible", are patterns the vast majority of users have become familiar with and can navigate without explanation. For example, interactions like gestures are not accessible or obvious but are commonplace and understood.
Constructive criticism of design is important and with these frameworks being open source, we can modify and "improve" as we see as appropriate. Google has invested enormous amounts of money, energy, and time into making this available for free. They are not enforcing these concepts, even on their own platforms so we should appreciate that they make these systems available if you choose to use them.
Material design is among the worst design languages I've ever seen. Developers without an eye for design typically use native widget toolkits which are superior to material design.
Gestures may be commonplace but are not understood. They are inconsistently implemented and you can tell the general populous doesn't understand them if you watch folks use them (or mistakenly trigger them) 'in the wild'.
Material design documentation is internally inconsistent. The numerous re-implementations are inconsistent. Usage of the libraries are inconsistent. The first-party usage is inconsistent. The documentation leaves holes in common use cases and steers toward uncommon cases (FAB for example). Consistency is a requisite feature of a good UI design.
Material design completely fails an accessibility review. From the labels referenced in the article to the terrible contrast and lack of meaningful dimension and dividing elements.
No amount of money invested in documentation is going to make material design any better.
Material design should be scrapped. There are no redeeming qualities.
I’m not sure why the effort alone makes it worthy of use. The product needs to be judged on its functional merits, not based solely on what it costs and how much work was put into it.
I also disagree that it was a step up for spec made available by other vendors before. Apple’s original Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh (http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf ) was a paragon of usability. AFAICT nearly everything we’ve invented since has been a step back.
If anything, Material Design is a textbook example of “you get what you pay for.”
> When you compare interfaces designed by that vast majority of developers, using MD is an enormous step up in usability and functionality.
I disagree. MD is terrible, and is a a couple of steps backwards in terms of usability and discoverability. Its use and influence has been pretty harmful, in my opinion, and is one of the reasons why UI design has been growing increasingly worse overall.
> It also incorporates concepts that, while not being the most "accessible", are patterns the vast majority of users have become familiar with and can navigate without explanation.
Are you kidding? This is hacker news and the topic is Google. I'd say the pitchforks are out, but these days I don't think they ever make it back to the shed.
If possible, I would explore going part-time or even full time if you can make the schedule work with the current job. I am finishing a full-time masters program and working full time, and it is hard but perfectly doable.
Having at least a bachelors will open doors. My employer excludes many candidates without a degree.
Anyone concerned with cost of living should not be considering a condo downtown. Overall the COL in detroit is around 45% lower for real estate and over 25% cheaper groceries versus new york. There will always be overpriced condos available.