MaxPengwing

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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by that? The UI/UX design of the System Preferences hasn't really changed since Snow Leopard imho. Cant speak to much about before Snow Leopard as that predates my personal experience. I'd love to get a
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Not on things that makes people feel like they can find what they are looking for. The Apple drop down menu hasn't changed its place since the original Mac OS. The UI skin might change a bit from year to year, but the UX of Key compone
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Apple gets a lot of flack for keeping design constant over the years, but this is the reason why they do it. People hate changes to their workflow.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I should say Im speaking from a European point of view. Pretty sure most of it excpet the pension plan thing is still applicable in the US tho.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
did you do anything other than redesign the website that could explain the influx of more sales? Like any campaigns, newsletters, ad buys etc? How do you know the new design is the the correlated cause of the revenue influx?
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Okay so here are my 5 cents, - Be good at understanding issues from a systemic point of view, and be good at finding information needed to resolve the issue. Not everything is an engineering problem, it could be a business process issue, or
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Just curious what is the budget you had for this, and what did the freelancers cost? Was milestones part of the contract deliverables for payments?
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
my whiteboard & Rhodia notebook. There is something very satisfying in crossing out or wiping out a task physically.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Like everyone has pointed out, support plan matters in these case. I do 2nd line support for a very big Enterprises and have done both hardware, software and now am at a big Saas. If you do not have the right support plan sure support will
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Agree, he's good to have as a bubble popper, and he is right a bout a few things, and some things he's just not well suited to talk on.... like most humans who are outside their expertise. What got me is that he seems to genuinely
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I think you should reach out to Jason Scott over at the Internet Archive. He's been involved with helping people get old stuff off of old media before and if he doesn't have the tech and know how, chances are high he knows who to
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
in my experience this is because larger organisations have incentive structures that counter act each other at different levels, usually related to budgetary constraints and... getting the credit for doing something good. I spoke with a fri
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Im just good at learnign new things relatively fast and well enought to answer peoples questions nad find solutions. So now somehow I do borderline developer support. Which has now pushed me to finally learn coding.. I mean if Im already g
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Not 100% sure but I think I am one of very few here that is in Tech Support not Engineering.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I work at Salesforce in Dublin. There are a lot of taxi drivers that have personal relationships with people working there. Nothing to the point of having an official relationship, but sales people, TAM, and more that travel a lot but has
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I think this might answer your question. https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/how-nasa-decid...
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
Why is Russia Invading Ukraine? - Many reasons, but I think this book and it's author have had a great influence on the decisions made by the Russian ruling class for the past 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
well I mean in that case, do what you do, you sound like you have made peace with it. But to be honest the best place for legal advice is to talk with an actual lawyer, not random yahoos like me on an internet forum. If it was me, I'd
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
And here I was happy thinking I 'd run in to an other Swede on Hacker News.. ah well.. in hindsight now that I read it, you are of course right.
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
Career wise, you if it gets know you'll likely never be trusted again. Legally, since you wrote SWE, then you should look up "Trolöshet mot huvudman" https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trol%C3%B6shet_mot_huv
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
1 - Do trainings teach actually exclusive content? - No not really, they do teach best practices and give you a paper that says "this person knows this" 2 - Do certifications actually boost my portfolio? - If you want to work in t
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by MaxPengwing 5y ago
Step by Step 1. Make a budget. 2. cut everything that is not essential. 3. Put your savings in stable dividend paying stock. This will generate passive income for you. 4. start selling digital goods, like courses, merchandising etc. Checkou
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by MaxPengwing 6y ago
History of replacing JPEG with something better - PNG Mostly to replace CompueServeGIF (Not to be mistaken for Yiff files). Neat but no real gain over JPEG in quality on photos so nonone really used it for anythign but animations, but every