Dragony

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by Dragony 3y ago
I actually worked on an App for a company that made home appliances. Originally they made everything local, so direct App to Washing machine communication. They had a really hard time with that approach for a number of reasons. The first, a
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by Dragony 4y ago
Many things in this article, especially about the problems with the Data Science role, resonate with me (low value work with low expectations for quality). Funny thing is I have never worked in Data Science. Rather I've worked in Softw
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by Dragony 4y ago
Sadly there are a number of functions in the PHP standard library that literally never can return true. Often they return a resource or false, for example. In those cases the `false` type is more accurate than boolean. That's the reaso
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by Dragony 5y ago
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by Dragony 5y ago
Generally speaking software makes things faster, not better. Good software for a bad process will simply expedite problems.
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by Dragony 5y ago
I've thought for a while that this kind of change for the sake of change is fuelled by the number of employees in the companies involved. The ratio of developers you need to build an application vs maintaining one is huge. That creates
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by Dragony 5y ago
In general estimates are risk assessments. With that in mind, I think the way to go about estimates depends on the experience level of the indivual or team. The best estimates are not only a number (or a t-shirt size), they also include a l
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What I wish I knew before building a Flutter App(ma.ttias.ch)
1 points by Dragony 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What are some front end templates with great code quality?
1 points by Dragony 5y ago|0 comments
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by Dragony 6y ago
Think of it this way: It's a social contract between the company and the employee that you will spend your time on something valuable to both the company and you. In larger organisations it can also help to answer the question "Wh
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by Dragony 6y ago
From my experience as participant in these kind of systems, this is what I think: These systems have the goal to create buy-in from the employee to perform at a certain level. Since you create these goals yourself there are little excuses w
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What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App(ma.ttias.ch)
366 points by Dragony 6y ago|168 comments
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Operating an Agency: Common mistakes seen in the wild(ma.ttias.ch)
3 points by Dragony 6y ago|1 comments
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by Dragony 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Switzerland | Remote Technical Project Manager Seeking part-time or contract work as project manager, project consultant or agile coach. I am a technical project manager with 15+ years experience of building applications. Dur
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by Dragony 6y ago
This is something I made as entertainment for my significant other: https://wasd.ch/keyboard/ I had some spare time and decided to code something small that would be a fun timewaster with some inside jokes.