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by kenshi 8y ago
Sad to see your comment downvoted. You'd think iOS device and Mac fans would understand well the sentiment of 'not wanting to be a second-class citizen'. Frame the discussion around Material design in iOS apps, Electron apps
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by kenshi 8y ago
Like anything - they make the time.
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by kenshi 8y ago
Open plan offices do have some advantages: - being able to put more employees in the space AKA being able to scale efficiently as the company grows - easily able to group related employees together (perhaps on a per project basis) - ad-hoc
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by kenshi 8y ago
Meetups. Conferences. Hackathons. A really good way to meet a lot of developers is to organise a meetup.
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by kenshi 8y ago
Find new (additional) friends who like to do sociable things. Meetup is a good place to find people like this. If you like a place which has its own subreddit (eg r/losangeles etc), you may find people who regularly do sociable stuff.
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by kenshi 8y ago
- Practice a lot. - For that authentic whiteboard performance feeling ask a friend to play the role of an interviewer. - Maybe set up a local meet up to help people practice this interview skill
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by kenshi 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to post all those informative links. Usually these kinds of discussions end up being people expressing what they like or dislike about the re-brand. I'd suggest that a re-brand that didn't provoke a stro
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by kenshi 9y ago
A space filled with laptop users gives off a work vibe, and a somewhat anti-social vibe too, regardless of what they are actually doing on their machines.
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by kenshi 9y ago
Would you consider it pretentious for a library to ask noisy guests to leave? If someone wants to run and maintain a social space, they have every right to prevent it from becoming a cheap office or work space. I imagine most coffee shop an
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by kenshi 9y ago
It's more a case of too many laptop users in a space, transform what was meant to be a social space into a work space. It changes the vibe and the mood.
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by kenshi 9y ago
VR online shopping could be a massive thing one day.
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by kenshi 9y ago
It is bullshit, but unfortunately mental health is an area that receives little funding. In a world where it feels like policy makers seem to only care about the bottom line, perhaps making an economic argument might help move the needle on
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by kenshi 9y ago
I think people could be persuaded to overlook the negative Silicon Valley sentiment if they believed the candidate knew how to make money and do good deals and improve their lot in life. Pretty much the "Yeah but..." argument I ha
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by kenshi 9y ago
Or maybe it's because people have valid concerns about little things like privacy, ethics, sexism, and the longer term effects of disruption that places more money and power into the hands of companies that are more than willing to ove
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by kenshi 9y ago
Not having an easily printable document also means you cant leave one or multiple copies of an important document around the workspace for convenient reference and as a physical reminder or even a prompt for discussion. The Apple HIG (Human
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by kenshi 9y ago
Is Snap really telling anyone to go away? You can download and use the app for free.
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by kenshi 9y ago
To be fair to Evan Spiegel and Snap, almost no-one was interested in doing versions of their apps for Windows Phone. Windows Phone turned up late to the party - third or fourth horse (remember Blackberry?) in an already competitive two hors
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by kenshi 9y ago
Where do your friends end up going?
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by kenshi 9y ago
I'm guessing stablemap is providing the author for anyone who might be interested in more of their work, rather than as a criticism or correction. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by kenshi 9y ago
True story: was once asked by the co-founder of a company to sabotage the project I was working on. "Drive a horse and cart through it" were his precise words. So for my team, the deliverable was working software. The co-founder w
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by kenshi 9y ago
This is a great point. I don't mean to say everyone should be running around doing whatever they want. I consider the team, and working collectively in an effective way, of critical importance. I think what you call collective fiction,
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by kenshi 9y ago
Methodologies are a trap. The problem with any methodology is they tend to lead people to stop thinking about the context they are operating in. "The methodology says X, we should do X, why oh why aren't we doing X?" is a fam
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by kenshi 9y ago
> Please join me in my effort and do finish your projects. Your users will love you for that. Will they? If your users are programmers, they might love you for that. For pretty much all other users, they will want more. "It would
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by kenshi 9y ago
I think its a mistake to directly compare the experiences (and conclusions) of these two exceptional programmers. Rich Hickey explains at the start of his talk where he is coming from, what the context of his development work, and he calls
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by kenshi 9y ago
Not sure why this is (was?) being downvoted. Yes it expresses a subjective opinion. Programmer preferences on languages, tooling and other things involve subjective opinion. We are all humans, not purely rational automatons. There is nothin
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by kenshi 9y ago
I cant argue with you that some works are objectively better than others. Or that works in much older media are going to be much more culturally significant than any app. Personally I think the value of (some of) the older apps is how they
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by kenshi 9y ago
You can't really rank or prioritise what cultural artefacts are going to be missed. It's such a subjective thing. For example, whilst I enjoyed many retro games back in the day, I can't say I am too bothered about not being a
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by kenshi 9y ago
I started Firefox OS in 2011 because already back then I was convinced that desktops and browsers were dead. Not immediately–here we are 6 years later and both are still around–but both are legacy technologies that are not pa
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by kenshi 9y ago
Write some documentation. A high-level design document of any significant system and subsystem is worth its weight in gold (or: programmer hourly rate * time to get up to speed on system). This documentation will also help you in a years ti
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by kenshi 9y ago
Separate the code you do for work (delivering a product/service) from the code you use for learning and experimenting. Keep your work code as simple as humanly possible. Do your experimentation elsewhere (using the time gained by keepi

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