MortenK

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by MortenK 14y ago
In my experience slackers rarely quit, they keep clinging to their jobs like their life depended on it, doing just the bare minimum to avoid getting fired. While your point might have been Yahoos intention, they might get the reverse result
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by MortenK 14y ago
You have the same issue on most other link aggregators, but other sites don't throw an error message just because a user presses "more".
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by MortenK 14y ago
Value-based pricing in software development is a high-risk gamble though, as it can very easily go either way. The risk of course decreases with experience, but even experienced teams and individuals can burn themselves on value-based, i.e.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Www.jingproject.com is a great solution for this as well. One click to upload and url to the annotated screenshot is in the clipboard
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by MortenK 14y ago
You can check out a few classics on developer productivity: Frederick Brooks' "Mythical man-month" and Tom Demarco's "Slack". As far as I recall, they both go into concrete data about the productivity drop-off that ensues after +40 hours f
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by MortenK 14y ago
Look at the x-axis, he doesn't lower the temperature immediately after. At 182 miles, he states he lowered temperature. Instead he increases it in small increments up to a bit more than 74 at around the 200 miles mark (18 miles after he say
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by MortenK 14y ago
Interesting, but might be a hard sell to already email overloaded people now having to categorize outgoing mail. They might now even get an extra auto-reply mail for every mail they send. There is also a emotional aspect in terms of everybo
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by MortenK 14y ago
Bold indeed, and entirely wrong.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Isn't IR35 used to cover cases where there is actual tax avoidance though? Where it is not a sole propriertorship, but rather a Ltd, and the owner is extracting his salary through NIC exempt dividends?
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by MortenK 14y ago
Usually the individuals are not employees pr. Se, unless the company in question has a local legal presence in the country of the employee. Instead they are hired on a simple business contract containing similar terms as a standard employem
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by MortenK 14y ago
When you run a business you have to make decisions about where to invest your time and these guys found that the extra time was not worth it for their particular business. It has nothing to do with "copping out".
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by MortenK 14y ago
Are we really talking about "the team" here, or are we talking about a PM who interrupts developers multiple times during a day, in order to re-prioritize tasks, get status reports, etc?
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by MortenK 14y ago
Quitting Facebook is really not that big of a deal. You won't become a social pariah, an outcast or loose all your friends because you cancel a website account.
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by MortenK 14y ago
You can't be serious.
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by MortenK 14y ago
When a person has done enough self promotion to persuade a lot of people to uncritically accept whatever mantra they spout.
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by MortenK 14y ago
That's great that you handle such an amount, congrats I guess? But you are seriously saying that 10 mill+ transactions every day is similar to a smallish web app? And would you really say that a technology handling such an amount of transac
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by MortenK 14y ago
If these systems were not reliable the 500 million tourists visiting the EU last year would not have been able to get a visa or not be able to pass border control points. That's just the visa specific parts, so yeah you could say it's somew
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by MortenK 14y ago
The entirery of the centralized European visa, asylum and police systems runs on WCF and C#. These systems are used constantly every day by a large part, if not the majority of European embassies, consulates, immigration ministries, foreign
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by MortenK 14y ago
A real tool for this kind of thing is Axure or Justinmind Prototyper, try them.
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by MortenK 14y ago
Very nice work, congrats on the release
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by MortenK 14y ago
It's because IE combined versions has around 50% market share.
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by MortenK 14y ago
QuietComfort 15 right? They're a life saver :-)
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by MortenK 14y ago
You are going to have very painful projects at that price range. The customers will be entirely out of touch with reality, if they think below $1000 is "fair" for an app (or really any kind of custom software). Expect such projects to drag
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by MortenK 14y ago
In the case you mentioned, with a clear perception of a problem being fixable within a nights work, I of course agree, that's the time to keep on working. But I think we will probably disagree on the right time to call it quits. In my book,
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by MortenK 14y ago
That's a reasoning that is prevalent and very often catch project managers and developers alike: It is "not an option" going home, because of whatever crisis is occurring. Because if we aren't working through the night, we are not committed
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by MortenK 14y ago
To "just work harder", in this case 36 hours, is the easy decision to make when something goes wrong. It smells deliciously of heroics, bravado and top performer mentality. Most importantly, the soul drenching, exhausting late hours, gives
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by MortenK 14y ago
Remember to include a snide remark with a vague reference to some sort of a logical fallacy, in order to demonstrate your superior mastery of logic. Bonus points for using pompous latin expressions.
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by MortenK 14y ago
232 comments and counting, I never knew $10 utensils could be such an intriguing and polarizing subject.
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The flatware recommended in the article is $10 a piece. It compares a bit to buying a $80 dollar stainless steel salt shaker to match the $60 carbon-fiber wine bottle stopper. It's probably those kinds of things op is calling a status symbo
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by MortenK 14y ago
Microsoft should probably have made a clear divide between tablet and desktop OS. Windows RT tablets running only the interface formerly known as Metro, and simply an incremental upgrade to the much loved Windows 7 for desktops. Mixing the

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