Tim Van Damme

1. Like I said I'm from Europe, unfortunately I do not have a green card. However, I think that if you manage get a job at a company it is possible to move to US and work even without a proper degree. For instance, Tim Van Damme ( http://maxvoltar.com/ ) moved from Belgium to work for Gowalla as a designer and from what I remember reading I don't think he even graduated high school. 2. I'm still trying to decide whether to go for a CS degree or a Graphic Design one, but I can totally see your point. College is useful indeed, I've never said that it's a complete waste of time.

This is considered good design? I'm having a bit of trouble reading it. http://maxvoltar.com/

The linked example, http://maxvoltar.com, works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.

I was reading it thinking the same thing, but the scrollbars on http://maxvoltar.com/ actually look and work nicely.

> 1. Like I said I'm from Europe, unfortunately I do not have a green card. However, I think that if you manage get a job at a company it is possible to move to US and work even without a proper degree. For instance, Tim Van Damme ( http://maxvoltar.com/ ) moved from Belgium to work for Gowalla as a designer and from what I remember reading I don't think he even graduated high school. Interesting. So the only way a U.S. based company can sponsor your visa is if they offer you a job and claim that owing to the fact that you are highly skilled labor of whom there is a shortage, they absolutely need you. As part of this, you basically have to have degrees. Now, Tim Van Damme is an interesting case. As you said, I am not sure he has any of these degrees. However, I suspect he came in on a special visa called the O-1 visa (An alien with extraordinary ability) which has a long laundry list of requirements. Refer: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6…

That's Tim Van Damme's scrollbar: http://maxvoltar.com/

Even worse (or probably related) than the general contrast problem is the absolutely crazy suggestion to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; in your CSS (http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing) I've yet to come across an instance where antialiased is better than using subpixel hinting. In addition, I think it's crazy that the browser would allow a site designer to alter such a highly OS- or even machine-specific setting. Heck - there's even special tuning wizards in most OSes to configure the subpixel hinting perfectly for a specific monitor. Dear designer, turning that off for everybody just because you didn't manage to configure it correctly on your machine is egoistic and, IMHO, plain stupid as you make everyone suffer for a thing you should fix at your end. /endrant

Go out on the wild and get some inspirations: Dan Cederholm: http://simplebits.com Spencer Fry: http://spencerfry.com Mike Rundle: http://flyosity.com Sam Brown: http://sam.brown.tc Matt Mullenweg: http://ma.tt Tim Van Damme: http://maxvoltar.com Meagan Fisher: http://owltastic.com Adii Pienaar: http://adiirockstar.com

Why do people write articles like this that depend on visuals without any visuals to prove their point? For examples of how the three types of font-smoothing choices look, try this article: http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing