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jamesdelaneyie
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jamesdelaneyie
5mo ago
Could be that you have four councils: Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South Dublin, and Fingal
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jamesdelaneyie
7mo ago
In the EU and had to switch from Stripe to Mollie due to Stripe thinking the client was a cruise company because they rent 'cruiser' boats for river leisure. Mollie was super easy to implement for them, and fees much better
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jamesdelaneyie
8mo ago
I didn't know /imagine could be followed by a prompt, but similarly I asked the avatar about it's appearance and stated it had none. Should probably give it the context of what it's appearance is like, same thing happene
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jamesdelaneyie
3y ago
Your goal during the ideation phase of those workshops should be to output as many post its as possible in the given time. Output the bad ideas quickly and you'll move along to better ideas much faster when you're not humming and
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jamesdelaneyie
4y ago
You mean this case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau... Where a 79 year old woman suffered 3rd degree burns to her pelvic region after spilling coffee in her lap?
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
This is true, they don't understand how 5+ fonts make it hard to load and render. But they do care about bandied about stats like 83% of people will leave a site if it doesn't load in -0.3 milliseconds.
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
>I absolutely do not understand the need for 'web fonts'. Just specify a normal font that most users already have installed in CSS, with some fallbacks. I suppose some people are happy with color: red, while others like a bit m
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
Rent increases can only be performed every two years in Ireland from Dec 2015. And you must have 90 days notice of a rent increase. More info on this link: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/renting_a_hom
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10y ago
Low effort comment, but simply put: Design.
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
>I wasn't in trouble and I knew it. A great feeling to have. I remember a similar teacher who could probably account for the death of ten trees every class with the reams of worksheets she'd hand out. Asked to speak to her befo
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
Google maps also changes the zoom level to the nearest integer. You can't do 12.5 for example. When I change the 10 on the google maps link in your comment to 10.5, it rounds it back down to 10 and rewrites the URL. Have ran into the i
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10y ago
He recently spoke at OFFSET in Dublin and went through about 900 slides in 30 mins. Mad man. His early flash work was very cool to see as well.
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jamesdelaneyie
10y ago
Interesting video. You might find this account of a debate (that happened the same year as that BBC doc) interesting as well. Roger participated in it. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/22/
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
I'd be looking at your diet and eating times if you're getting the '3 o'clock slump' and need a snooze during the day.
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
Something not mentioned here is their 'big push' into Design Thinking. IBM have snapped up ~14+ of the graduates from my college course (Visual Communications, IADT, Dublin) flown them out to Austin for a 3 month starter course an
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
Someone keep this cat off my desk and lap somehow. Actually just desk. Lap is ok.
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
>It worked best by "switching off the screen", i.e. typing without seeing what you type (either by literally switching off the screen, or by putting the font to same color as background That's really interesting. Have writ
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11y ago
I invoice that as 'tech management' and charge an hourly rate for it. I would not put it in my portfolio but if the jobs goes well I would get a testimonial from the client.
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
1. Take who the client is, think about how much I like the job, how technically hard it is, how long I'd be at it and the deadline they want and a few other variables then pick a figure from the air that seems good. 2. Word of mouth or
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11y ago
definitely recommend waveapps.com in that case. Free plan and no limit on number of customers or invoices, does receipts and links to your bank account, pretty much everything you need as a sole trader it seems!
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
I would say you'll do fine. To start out, you might have to do what Dubliners call, "Nixers". That is to say, a cash in hand payment for a small touchup sort of job. Dublin has a pretty fertile tech ground and if you honestly
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11y ago
The Sims.
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
I used to hate the whole shave kb off a file stuff (its 2015! we'll have superdooper speeds in 5 years!) until someone added up the hardware usage overall worldwide and it made a bit more sense. it made more sense when the crash bandic
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11y ago
Yeah they're pretty rad! Here's more in a similar style: https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/221858048/sega-dreamcast-lon... https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/239251010/wind
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11y ago
Do you mean these? http://www.hm.com/ie/product/27446?article=27446-M
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
Do it! Theres a good few on eBay already so the market is there. I love and collect old-school tech company work shirts. Once literally bought the shirt off a guys back out one night because he had a nice DELL shirt. Offered him €10 for it
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11y ago
How did it pan out in the end? Did you talk to the people the app was targeted at?
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jamesdelaneyie
11y ago
Hey, this is the pixel art renouncing guy. A large part of your brand is that you're obsessive over high quality artwork. You didn't rebrand either - you created new artwork, actually furthering the current brand. Most of what you
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11y ago
would A/B testing, in some capacity, the decision in some form or another, help with this?
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11y ago
As a designer that would love this tool for the speed and cleanliness factor it would give, i have a few other Qs: 1. Does it spit out a css file or multiple css file I can use immediately? Can i actually amend a local document with it, or
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