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Jack Shedd
Personal blog · bigcontrarian.comdesignprogramming
Jack Shedd writes Big Contrarian, a personal blog at bigcontrarian.com about design and programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about Campaign Monitor. The post describes the service as a shell that agencies resold to clients unbranded, so designers may have to explain to clients that it damaged their relationships.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A weblog by Jack Shedd, a developer and designer based in Chicago, IL. Categorically speaking, it's about everything.
What Hacker News says?
Campaign Monitor was a shell service: something numerous agencies resold to their clients, unbranded and often masked. More than one designer will wake up to the news that they’ll have to call a client who trusted them, and explain how a service the client may never have realized was responsible for their information is now at fault for damaging their relationships with their customers. I watch my inbox with a certa…
Comment linking /2009/08/11/responding-to-an-invasion/
on “Campaign Monitor attacked”Submitted Fairly Unremarkable Backgrounds as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML 5 is another guess at the future as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting it all on black - The mathematics of gambling as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted This phone is an asshole. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Divide as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
