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by johansch 9y ago
What the.. That, unlike all of those dark UX patterns they are masters of, actually seems deeply deceptive and potentially illegal, depending on your locale. If this is true they have stepped across a line.
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by johansch 9y ago
(Ok.)
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by johansch 9y ago
I saw a bunch of comments saying that the salaries used to be good (presumably when HTC did really well a bunch of years ago).
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by johansch 9y ago
Engineering seems widely undervalued as a profession in many asian locales (not in Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen though, but then you have to use air- and internet filters). I don't think they have any easy options if they want t
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by johansch 9y ago
Those $3.3 million per engineer correspond to roughly 100 years of current salaries, according to the numbers I posted elsewhere in this thread. :/
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by johansch 9y ago
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Taipei Found this comment which I am going to blindly trust. ;) So, for reference, the HTC salaries were in the range of 50-70k NTD/month. "90% of people working
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by johansch 9y ago
What are engineering salaries like at HTC in Taipei? (A chinese-speaking friend of mine with excellent credentials and capabilities in OS quality graphical design was seriously low-balled when applying for a job there.)
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by johansch 9y ago
I would be positively surprised if the continued the open approach (no walled garden) that Valve initiated.
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by johansch 9y ago
A de-cluttered version of this would work great in a car/auto context. "Show me nearby supermarkets"
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by johansch 9y ago
Double-sided velcro tape works pretty well. Put the soft side on the tablet...
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by johansch 9y ago
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... there seems to be a relatively strong correlation between universal health care and lower rates of road traffic deaths. Which I guess makes sen
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by johansch 9y ago
You'll know in a day or two.
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by johansch 9y ago
I wish you guys would build a multiple rows of tabs UI, like Opera for desktop had. It was self-balancing (since you would eventually run out of browsing space), but in a better way than having everything just made tiny per column. The one
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by johansch 9y ago
Since I enjoyed using this bookmarklet on this site, I thought I'd recommend it to others as well: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
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by johansch 9y ago
Yeah, the data structures define the program. Both downwards towards the developer and upwards towards the user.
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by johansch 9y ago
"Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident." This should have been #1. Really. In all of my 20 years of designing and writi
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by johansch 9y ago
Open standards tend to win/survive...
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by johansch 9y ago
I have been working with the web since 1997, but almost only on the server-side (back in the the simpler web 1.0 days) and (during the past decade) on the browser UX/network side. I just recently started looking at actually creating so
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by johansch 9y ago
I have seen this pattern in other people with interesting but narcissistic personalities: "Steve wasn’t capable of being friends. That wasn’t his personality."
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by johansch 9y ago
It is terrible though. It is worth stating the obvious fact once in a while. This organic design of the web stack with layer upon layer upon layer upon layer can't go on for forever. At some point it will just become too painful and
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by johansch 9y ago
"Harvard also announced this week that it had invited former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to be visiting fellows." It
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by johansch 9y ago
Obviously it is not about the actual few dollars, but the principle.
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by johansch 9y ago
Quite neat.. but I kind of long back to the time where computing hacks didn't use relatively expensive pay-per-usage cloud services run by Jeff Bezos.
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by johansch 9y ago
1. Turkcell - primarily TeliaSonia (Sweden :/ ) 2. Vodafone (100% Vodafone)
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, in a word, yeah. It's clear where they are headed towards, the next six months may be the last chance to change this. The most critical contracts are these two (number three is state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by johansch 9y ago
Then it was probably a case of your bank being overly suspicious of foreign transactions. (I have seen this happen many times while waiting in line here in Sweden, while some foreign person is in front of me. I think it's safe to say t
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by johansch 9y ago
I think the international community should implement tech export limitations already at this stage, rather then ten years down the line when they have completely cemented their dictatorship.
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by johansch 9y ago
They simultaneously reached a saturation point in most rich markets.. and stopped being able to innovate themselves into higher price points. Steve used to be around to to direct them into risky but likely profitable endeavours.. Like for
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by johansch 9y ago
The model launched two years ago (Apple TV 4) remains at $149. That hardware hasn't gotten cheaper at all in two years? The spec-bumped 4k one is $179. It should have been $99/$149.
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by johansch 9y ago
Does the card have an EMV chip? An absence of that may have been the trigger.

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