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Re: State of the Glam' City: Los Angeles - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

Steven Sacks — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:47:42 -0000

Chiat/Day is this amazing place. It's beautiful inside. And then, you walk back to where the interactive department is located, and you realize how unimportant it is to them. It's nothing more than a crappy sweat shop. It's stark white and emotionless, in stark contrast to the rest of the building. They've got Flash developers and designers sitting nearly on top of each other (I'm not kidding, I saw people sitting as close together as you do on an airplane - can you imagine working in that environment?). They have no respect for Flash developers, they're third-class citizens there. They also try to negotiate salary with Flash developers over email with HR, even for their most senior positions. It's not just an unprofessional way to handle the interview process, it underscores their attitude about Flash developers. I'm certain that the "real" employees get better treatment.

If you're a Flash developer, do yourself a favor and don't bother working there. Chiat/Day is only great if you've got a degree in advertising. You'll get to work with the real employees in the amazingly beautiful real office, as opposed to the interactive slave labor in the back area which doubles as a storage facility for old ad posters (not kidding).

Re: R.I.P. Wii Fit Project

Steven Sacks — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:37:50 -0000

Fret not! You just took on more than you could reasonably do currently. Here's some recommended reading. It should cheer you up and help you set realistic expectations for yourself. :)

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-d...

Re: Palringo

Steven Sacks — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:51:11 -0000

meebo.com has an iPhone version that runs in the Safari browser and works great. It's been available since iPhone 1.0.

Re: Writing JSFL in AS3

Steven Sacks — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:33:16 -0000

You know you can write a .jsfl file and call functions inside of it using runScript, right?

Re: Coolest video innovation I’ve seen in a while

Steven Sacks — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:34:29 -0000

Don Park,

How do you surmise YouTube can turn off the faucet at will? You mean they can change their crossdomain.xml file so that no sites can load YouTube videos and you have to watch the videos on their site, thus rendering every single embedded YouTube video throughout the web dead in the water?

And you think they'd do that?

Or maybe you don't actually know how the "magic" works and you're basing your "they can turn the faucet off at will" from a lack of knowledge of how Flash's security sandbox works.

I think it's best if you go back to your place in the audience and leave the magic to the magicians. ;)