Yongfook
yongfook.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Yongfook (Jonathan Kitchen) writes about startups, self-funding, growth tactics and design opinions from his experience building a product.
What HN saysHN links it for Design is Horseshit, which prompted response posts, and for his startup experiments such as an assistant product.
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fookyong · 2013-08-21
Accompanying blog post here:
http://yongfook.com/startup-confessions-i-m-in-love-with-my-assistant.…
This isn't a faux-MVP, the product is live and being tested out now :) Would love any feedback about the idea and if you have an uncontrollable desire to be one of the beta testers shoot me a mail with "HN" in the subject to [email protected]! cheers
nixme · 2009-05-14
Demo of a stream: http://www.yongfook.com/
cobychapple · 2011-12-17
I'm guessing this post is a direct response to "Design is Horseshit" (http://yongfook.com/post/14295124427/design-is-horseshit), which was on HN earlier.
It appears that the author of this post has taken the original article and simply replaced 'design' with 'engineering' the whole way through it, thus the unusual characterisation of engineers as "expressive creatures" you point out.