Don't you hate it when...

[Niann]

... You have worked on a project (Flash, webdesign, Photoshop, whatever...) for over 40 hours, and your friend comes along and thinks that s/he could do a much better job then you? :angry: :angry:

This happened to me recently, normally I would not care all that much, but I have put over 40 hours of work into my project. 40 real hours, not sitting around learning the process and the software either, I am an expert at the software I am using. (As you may have guessed its not Flash. :P ) In any case he asks to see what I have done, I am about 50% finished so I show him the clips I have done. He watches it and says... "Thats ok, but I wish you would give me the source material, I could do the timing much better..." I was steamed at that point. I will be the first to say I am not perfect nor is the timing in the video perfect, but its darn close... The thing that really gets to me is that he has never done a video at all, and here he is telling me how much better he could do then me... With my source material no less. He did start a video once, from a project I never finished. He took the source material and said he would start over and make a better one... Well that was six months ago, and besides it was still my source, and idea for the vid. Bah, whatever...

Sorry for the vent, but this really ticked me off. Back to the regular happy Niann now. :)

Cheers!
-Niann

[ahmed]

lol, i tend to ignore such people :)

[Niann]

I wish I could... He comes to my place to mooch broadband.. lol Maybe I should cut him off... :evil:

Cheers!
-Niann

[Digitalosophy]

lol he sounds like my friend joe, a 25 year old idiot with no job and lives at home, but he can do anything... he's superjoe :)

[reverendflash]

sounds like a tiny Richard syndrome...

he's overcompensating for something...

;)

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[Jubba]

Originally posted by Digitalosophy
lol he sounds like my friend joe, a 25 year old idiot with no job and lives at home, but he can do anything... he's superjoe :)

I have a few of those... :) care to take a guess at how I remedy the situation? :evil:

[andr.in]

I don't have that kind of ppl here! Because a few of the ppl I know have computers @ home and the ones who have don't know anything about programming or computer art(except for me best friend who knows some PS art) so they can't really do a better job than me! :P

[SureShot]

Originally posted by Jubba
I have a few of those... :) care to take a guess at how I remedy the situation? :evil:


Oh I dont know, standing 6 to 7 feet behind them, get a running start and let out a :scream: "hhhhyyyyyyyaaaahhhhh!":scream: while kicking them in the back of the cranium.

Just a guess though...

:)

[thoriphes]

backup, backup, backup!

whenever I give someone my code, first off, i never let them touch my computer, i'd usually give them a copy to work on another/their computer; but anyway, I make at least one copy of the file in some remote location on my HDD. Usually, i never let them touch the original.

I also do this when i edit other people's stuff, i make copies so i don't screw it up totally.

but to play it safe next time, i'd take SureShot's advice. ;)

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[TheOrangeOne]

Originally posted by reverendflash
sounds like a tiny Richard syndrome...

he's overcompensating for something...

;)

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I'm with you Rev!

[Digitalosophy]

Originally posted by Jubba
I have a few of those... :) care to take a guess at how I remedy the situation? :evil:

lol lemme guess..lol

get a running start and kick him in the back of the head? :)

[SureShot]

I Already said that!!!! :)

[Digitalosophy]

lol yes you did

[pom]

I feel your pain, Niann... My boss told me the same thing recently. He wanted to have a little intro done for his site, and he thought about hiring the same designer who did the current site (some guy who probably works for 2advanced, check this out people, it's really amazing: www.yxene.com ).

Anyway, I tell him I'm not a designer but that I know Flash a bit and that I could probably do better than what's there already. I showed him some of my stuff, and he more or less explained me he thought even he could do better :-\

[pom]

On the other hand, I DO suck :P

[thoriphes]

don't worry, pom. we programmers are in a league of our own.

[Jubba]

but you could probably program a flash movie that would kill him. its the design that we all suck at :P

[thoriphes]

yeah, i can't design for crap. yesterday i was working on a "layout" for my site and it ended up being another experiment. :angry:

i couldn't come up with a single idea of a menu for my "site"

i'm absolutely terrible at this design thing.

[Niann]

whenever I give someone my code, first off, i never let them touch my computer, i'd usually give them a copy to work on another/their computer

Yeah I burned the source material on to a few CDs gave them to him and said good luck! =)

Maybe I should try the flying Dragon Kick method... That may be fun... =)

Cheers!
-Niann

[pom]

The worse part of being a programmer and not a designer is that you know you suck and you just can't help it! :P I have no idea how to improve my skills... (my only ray of light was the trendwhore tute from sintax. I want to be a trenwhore!!)

[thoriphes]

you and me both, pom.

last night i had a revelation:

a website made by a single programmer can have the most sophisticated code that took hours to make, and it cannot touch the design of another site a designer took maybe 15 minutes to draw up. and guess which would be the headturner?

i think i'm going to stick to my experiments and just make my site out of plaster of paris and glue.

[pom]

:P Let's create a club, Thor! "Frustrated Programmers Anonymous" or something...

[thoriphes]

haha, yeah, sure! but who will make our site?

:P

[SureShot]

instead of a club for programers, let's start a design company. I am a designer and suck at coding. I will design the front end and make it all pretty - you just have to make it work :)

Sound fair!? Together we could be unstopable!

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by SureShot
I am a designer and suck at coding. :)

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/newsletter/1999/feb-mar/eskimo.jpeg

Tuknuk reading manual...

:beam:

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[thoriphes]

Originally posted by SureShot
Sound fair!? Together we could be unstopable! sounds like a plan =).

we will make 2A bow to our magnificence, flashlevel will shelter with cower, macromedia themselves will recheck their code to see if what we do is even possible, my head is going to explode with so much ego.

:P

[reverendflash]

don't forget:


Macrmomedia will come to us for change requests

:beam:

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[SureShot]

You got it! Let's get to it - Macromedia won't know what hit em! hahaha


and rev - that's a personal pic... You shouldnt be posting my pic all over the internet. Jeesh!


:)