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by k3n 13y ago
Fully agree. At least 'graphic design' is easier to explain than 'information design', which most here at work probably think is a farce or a figment of imagination.
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by k3n 13y ago
> too often, non-designers underestimate the work and design considerations involved. The story of my life! In my entire career as a web developer, the hardest non-technical task I've ever faced is convincing management that we need
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by k3n 13y ago
My friends that are in management have expressed the same desires, but I believe that is mainly because as technical engineers, making the switch to personnel and project management brings with it too many non-technical challenges that can&
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by k3n 13y ago
Yes, that last part is definitely part of it -- I've witnessed management, and it scares the hell out of me. I value my off-time way too much, and I refuse to get involved the one-upsmanship game of time clocked at work.
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by k3n 13y ago
Thanks, that is sort of my thinking too: it's a role and title that's bestowed upon you because you've earned it and proven yourself worthy, as opposed to some formal role within an organization.
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by k3n 13y ago
I appreciate the detailed response, I guess I've just been conditioned to equate "leader = manager" on account of their liberal and seemingly interchangeable use in job descriptions and roles (or perhaps that's my own mi
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by k3n 13y ago
Introvert or not, what does it say about me that I have absolutely no desire to be a "leader"? At least not in the 9-5 rat-race definition of such, which basically translates to manager ...
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by k3n 13y ago
Just because it's printed on the internet doesn't make it true.
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by k3n 13y ago
> Echelon (probably) existed Probably? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
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by k3n 13y ago
That sales strategy is exactly what the sales team at my day job does; our software requires heavy buy-in from IT departments, and the payoff isn't in the IT realm but more for the foot soldiers on the ground (and of course, the bottom-line
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by k3n 13y ago
Hah, nice pseudonym. I think it's mostly inevitable, to me it's no different than asking group of farmers which make of pickup or tractor is best, or a deliveryman which brand of shoes are best... I'm pretty sure you could come up with at l
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by k3n 13y ago
I would agree, and add that simply referencing the article, or quoting relevant portions, along with introducing some original narrative would've been much more productive (conducive to conversation).
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by k3n 13y ago
I've seen it many times before, and it's always been amusing, but looking at it within the context of "clever code" is brilliant. That's exactly what it looks like some people have done (figuratively) to produce the code that they did.
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by k3n 13y ago
Relevant data-visualization when talking about data-visualization (it's served me well): http://img.labnol.org/di/choose-chart-type.jpg
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by k3n 13y ago
I've already said it wouldn't be easy, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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by k3n 13y ago
Playing devil's advocate here... but if you were so inclined you could accomplish the same with SVN. Creating and hosting a repo locally (or offsite) is trivially easy, and though it might not be as friendly or natural as it would be with g
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by k3n 13y ago
I'd disagree, on paper Github has a nice suite of services, arguably best-in-class for some of them, but that doesn't make them untouchable. Github is only the latest in a line of code-hosting services. Just because you tried and failed, do
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by k3n 13y ago
I unconsciously ignore anything that isn't in the standard format that the normal results are presented in, a side-effect of so many "sponsored" links always being shoved to the top. There's the "crap at the top" that is almost never what I
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by k3n 13y ago
Sex sells....who knew??
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by k3n 13y ago
Doubt it, G+ is the passport for Google's services going forward I'm afraid...
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by k3n 13y ago
Oh look, MS is again proselytizing what a huge success Win8 has been.
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by k3n 13y ago
That doesn't fit the bill and would be efficient if you only had 1 sender per label. Nearly all of my labels have a one-to-many relationship, and so recreating that 'search' would first require me to remember each of the parties involved, f
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by k3n 13y ago
I've encountered it just enough times to avoid it 100%. I think in my scenario, the problems have been compounded by an overall lax (lazy) coding style on the part of my predecessors, in that many of them were junior devs who virtually made
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by k3n 13y ago
Kudos to the author for providing explanations, complete with formulas/diagrams/images, and also for crediting (cREDDITing?) his source for each joke.
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by k3n 13y ago
> What I don't get is why are some software developers so terrified of "non-techies"? I can only speak for myself obviously, but at my work, all resumes are funneled through our recruiter. Sure, we can forward resumes to her as-needed
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by k3n 13y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but to be fair, that thread is 1434 days old. Not saying that anything has changed -- I really have no idea -- but I'm not sure how prudent it is to base high-tech decisions off anecdotal data that is 4 yea
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by k3n 13y ago
You have to stand out, yes, but you also must present a clear message (which would include a clear call-to-action). If the non-techie who's sifting through resumes can't deduce in a few seconds whether or not you're even qualified and appli
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by k3n 13y ago
Are you thanking yourself for giving yourself a belly laugh?
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by k3n 13y ago
They do all over the place. Still, there's an abstraction layer to work with in detecting these host methods and in providing a backwards-compatible implementation (polyfill).
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by k3n 13y ago
When I look at that, I see man-years of work that I don't have to reinvent.

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