The source files are exclusively Sketch, and Photoshop/PSD is absent. The UI design community has been shifting for more than a year, Apple started releasing UI templates in Sketch in addition to Photoshop in 2015 — Google even earlier.
Illustrator is still highly relevant for its strength, vector based work, while Sketch has surpassed Photoshop for UI.
The momentum is only increasing, even with bugs and issues found in Sketch. It's obvious the interface design community desires better tools. I wonder if Adobe Comet stands a chance with disruption we're seeing?
Not really. XML parsers are readily available for every mainstream programming language. DOCX is a public standard as well. Unlike "ones and zeros", XML's structure is transparent.
It really is just a better experience through and through for mocking UI. Once you get the simple keyboard shortcuts down and a decent set of icons / graphics from sketchappresources.com, you can do a lot very quickly. I recently discovered that you can pair this with keynote to do some quick and effective UI animations.
Drove back from Brooklyn last night after celebrating my friend's 40th at Arrogant Swine, and then I wake up to see this on hacker news. Crazy.
This restuarant appears out of nowhere in Bushwick/warehouse district. Being a North Carolina native I was a huge skeptic walking in. Mr. Ho has an NC (and SC) flag on the wall, usually not a symbol of pride outside the state (even for me), but in the case of BBQ it's respectable and makes a statement to anyone who know's anything about pulled-pork BBQ.
If you're ever in Brooklyn, definitely check it out. There's something to be said about eating, drinking, and enjoying the vision of an entrepreneur. Impossible to do with your stereotypcial start-up.
I do miss the NC BBQ. I used to eat at Cooper's in downtown Raleigh -- which is in the process of moving to a new location I hear. A developer bought the block and is putting up a tall building -- no room for a business started in the 1930s there.
The best hushpuppies I ever had though, were at Bubba's in Charlotte. Ralph would make his dough in batches, and if you caught it at the end of the batch, the onions had had time to steep in the batter, and they were so good.
In auctions like these the highest bidder will never follow through with payment. Unless this is some exceptional case. They are also fueled by shill bids. The bidder's account will be flagged for non-payment, and due to the priced nature of the breach of contract the account would then be closed permanently.
Can you please also explain the motivation for anyone to do all the phony bidding. They don't intend to buy it, they risk getting their account closed, there's no side-channel profit (like ads) from the shill bidding, no one's going to be impressed by the fakery, so why?
Think of it as trolling. What is any troll's motivation?
Also, it is not safe to assume that the bids you see were placed by the actual account holders. There is a very active business in stealing and using other people's eBay accounts for use in fraud schemes. If you're someone sitting on a list of 1500 stolen eBay accounts, you might be happy to burn an account with a low feedback. Notice that most of the bids were placed by users with less than 100 feedback; these accounts aren't terribly valuable. The top bidder with 722 feedback is a bit of an anomaly, but that could be part of the troll: "I'm so l33t I burn accounts with 722 feedback!" Still, in the scope of things, 722 isn't that high for eBay feedback.
Then again, many of them could just be random people who don't care about their low-feedback eBay account. I know some people who have multiple eBay accounts for various reasons. It's not unusual for someone to forget that they have an eBay account, so they create another, then remember/discover the other one later. So what if you burn a spare account?
The bottom line is that when you're talking about an event with this level of attention -- hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of eyes -- the tiny statistical sliver of irrational behavior will begin to show up.
When I saw the headline, I immediately thought, "they must be using WordPress". WP is a giant exploitable target, and I've personally told Matt this. Automattic saw an opportunity long ago and started VaultPress for WP security. He argued it's not a WP problem, and I frankly disagree, but he obviously understands the situation better than anyone. WP is free, but security is not because self hosted WP is so exploitable.
A launch for a client also went through the same problem in 2010, and that was after 5 years of managing other WP installs (including 2 VIP WP sites). I've seen it happen too many times for it not to be Automattic's problem to address more so than they're doing now.
Stay away from self hosted WP unless your install is absolutely bullet proof, and cross linking, especially to resource files from other WP sites is the last thing you should ever do because you do not control their security which can directly affect yours, or at least your black list vulnerability due to associated content.
Our office used to be above Automattic's in SF, and I love those guys, and what Matt has done for the web, but with great power comes with great responsibility.
I'm a great promoter of Drupal, including in those cases where it competes with WordPress. However in all honesty I can't really play the security card against WP. I think WP itself meets generally accepted security standards; the 3d party code loaded into it sometimes does not, but that's the same case with any framework that allows modules.
WP probably gets a bit of a bad rap because the types of sites made with it often don't have the budget to bring high quality development. When you serve 20% of the web, and people choose you precisely because they can get cheap developers, there will be some problem sites out there running WP.
In this particular case, it seems to me that they would have been flagged if they had been running anything, Drupal or Jekyll or a static site - they had an external theme provider who referred to a domain in CSS comments that was listed by google.
The problem seems to be the accuracy of Google's flagging, not WordPress.
Illustrator is still highly relevant for its strength, vector based work, while Sketch has surpassed Photoshop for UI.
The momentum is only increasing, even with bugs and issues found in Sketch. It's obvious the interface design community desires better tools. I wonder if Adobe Comet stands a chance with disruption we're seeing?