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by kagamine 11y ago
Sounds like a similar experince to one I had where interviewer nr2 clearly had made made up their mind before walking into the room. So 30 mins into an interview that was going swimmingly - in comes sour face and contradicts everything I sa
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by kagamine 11y ago
Silicon Valley startups are to investment what a day at the races is to a broker. You hope you'll pick a winner but ultimately those horses are not where the majority of the population's investment goes.
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by kagamine 11y ago
It's just called Z. Which is a name that is impossible to search because of the IBM Z.
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by kagamine 11y ago
We use a COBOL variant from a company in the US that is not open-sauce, but is very, very efficient and in continued developemnt, and we like it. A lot. It has a simplified syntax over COBOL, for example, no 6 columns on each line before co
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by kagamine 11y ago
While that was a pointless article to write anywhere outside of reddit itself, as it is in essence just a reddit rant, it is actually spot on imo. /r/food is parody of a food blog by people who are either in on the joke or, due to
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by kagamine 11y ago
First off, the default landing page should not include NSFW, and when I changed to the SFW tab, because having "cumsluts" in red lettering on my screen isn't considered part of my job, I got NSFW subs in the SFW list, for exa
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by kagamine 11y ago
Just imagine the time cost involved in that. New features and upgrades would come once a year, maybe. How do you track different sonfigs across hundreds of shops? POS systems with touch screen have been in use for 10+ years, they are well t
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by kagamine 11y ago
Because people who work in stores are either idiots or pretending to be idiots. Or choice number 3: they pay us to do that so flat out refuse to do so themselves. Imagine this true story: guy on the phone to technician 3 times about printer
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by kagamine 11y ago
Before I worked on the product they tried, I am told, to port it to .NET and WIN servers, but it was so slow in comaprison that they quickly gave up. Huge amounts of data in chain store databases and linked services accross the country, all
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by kagamine 11y ago
Touch screens in retail till systems (POS) are used because we can rewrite the software from scratch and deliver on the same hardware. We can add a button for 10% discount next to teh 5% discount button and just have it appear on the screen
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by kagamine 11y ago
> I recall watching cashiers operating similar ones at various stores One of which was probably Elkjøp, the Dixons in the North? They have a text based system in-store for looking up stock. I occasionally work on a product that is simila
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by kagamine 11y ago
That doesn't address any of the safety issues from the post you replied to. Convenience will not save your life in an accident, should an accident happen. Convenience doesn't prove the driver is who he says he is. Regulation in th
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by kagamine 11y ago
An easy mistake to make as s and p are right next to one-another on the qwerty um ... I might not be paying attention.
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by kagamine 11y ago
Maybe it's not broken, maybe it's a new trend, in this information rich modern world having text to read isn't enough, we need text on top of the text so we can double read and process information twice as fast as before . S
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by kagamine 11y ago
The author does mention unplugging it before starting a repair. I think the mains voltage isn't the issue unless you are feeling really down about the device breaking, so down in fact that you would leave it plugged in before commencin
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by kagamine 11y ago
That's a slightly differnet scenario, as the disgnostics don't actaully "fix" anything, although you can use disgnostics software to adjust settings like ride height, injector settings etc. There really was no extra work
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by kagamine 11y ago
Our oven broke due to a fault in a circuit board, also a common and well documented fault for the model, and the replacement, while available, was 2/3rds the cost of the oven. New oven, different manufacturer.
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by kagamine 11y ago
I hear you, disable colour, ctrl+, ctrl+, ctrl+. OK, now I can read this!
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by kagamine 11y ago
I think the point was that even in your example you have to have friends who will retweet those events for you to see them, there is no banner up top saying "breaking news: thousands gain eternal life in alien invasion" and that i
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by kagamine 11y ago
Unless the book is a manga, in which case you will find chapter 1 at the back, and how many of us tried to read our first manga in the early 90s only to be really confused? I mention it not be a pedantic fool, but because the web also has g
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by kagamine 11y ago
Don't want to nit-pick but, >gray text on web pages (even despite it violates W3C accessibility recommendations), the W3C don't recommend against grey text at all, they recommend that designers consider the contrast of text c
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by kagamine 11y ago
A very good point I think, the web in your language is not always the same as the web in other languages, for example sites like nicovideo.js do tend to be different and carry a lot more information per page than American or European sites.
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by kagamine 11y ago
It's essentially a drive-thru that you walk through and there is only one person to complain to when you find a bug in your salad. I don't see how this is anything "new" at all.
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by kagamine 11y ago
Nice, doesn't do Windows though which I am locked into at work, and is aimed solely at backups, not sharing and managing files over multiple computers and OSes which is what I was mainly using Wuala for. But you answered the question,
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by kagamine 11y ago
I was using Wuala but they are closing it down later this year, starting from now. They recommend switching to Tresorit, Swiss based with end to end encryption and no keys held on the server (lose your password at your peril). Any recomme
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by kagamine 11y ago
Excuses how? Because I didn't get that particular job? I work, I do code and I do UX. There are a great many people in UX who are not trained in UX. Given what the article was about, would you trust an untrained person to make key deci
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by kagamine 11y ago
Why are there 7 different versions of Windows? Why can't Win 7 Norwegian upgrade to Win 8 English?
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by kagamine 11y ago
UX degee level graduate here, had too many interviews in which an interest and ability to write code was seen as a detriment to the design process because they thought it detracted from the ability to design as a 'dumb user'. And
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by kagamine 11y ago
I'd disagree with both you, I use all 3 of the most publicized OSes on a daily basis and I don't see MS as laggig. My experience is this: Linux is improving on a daily basis (but there are too many DEs/WMs which adds to barri
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by kagamine 11y ago
> That was built by engineers not by designers or by UX guys who do "research" Except that what Google did was look at existing search engines and think 'how can we differentiate?' and the result was an (originally) a

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