nikatwork

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by nikatwork 10y ago
Never underestimate the nosiness of curtain-twitching busybody neighbors.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Tell that to my boss.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
XML is still huge in corp land. In Healthcare, HL7 is gradually moving to an XML version. SOAP is everywhere, JSON is not. Horses for courses.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
A vocal percentage of the HN crowd assumes you are working on a personal machine with full admin rights, not behind any firewall, and that you have the expertise, spare time and patience to setup and maintain a system. Ironically these crit
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by nikatwork 10y ago
As another commenter pointed out they could have made that surface not look like a button, then you would not have to discover that UX function, which is superior design. Good design is intuitive.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> Have you never even been so curious as to touch it? The correct design is to create it such that it serves the unsighted without enticing the sighted to mistake it for a button and touch it for a function it does not perform.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
I have tried traffic buttons in many different countries (there's a sentence I never thought I'd type) and none have made me as egregiously furious as the Australian ones. They're an abomination on the level of CSS and the iT
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by nikatwork 10y ago
These buttons are horrible from a UX perspective. The old design had a light that would activate after you pressed to acknowledge your request. Many of these new ones don't, so pedestrians will stand there mashing over and over as ther
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by nikatwork 10y ago
It's parents all the way down.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> Yelp for people? What a truly heinous product. I've known a number of people who have been stalked, I can't begin to imagine the harm a stalker could cause with this kind of app.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
And if I push myself to give more fucks per day I find it easier to maintain that level over time... I think of it as building momentum, others think of it as exercising the willpower muscle. Ego depletion could be a "just so" sto
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Just go drinking with some nurses, they always have good foreign object stories. My fave was about a morbidly obese person who got a whole BBQ chicken lodged in their throat. They called in half the department to "observe" that on
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> old newspapers... which of course we know today it's not such a great idea, heh Why is it a bad idea? The newspaper thing is common in Oz, and a quick Google turned up nothing.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> you are, on net, supporting it. I haven't donated to any anti Boko Haram orgs. Does that mean I support murdering children?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
I've always wanted a "mood" button to separate the signals I'm sending the algo. So I don't get chamber music in the middle of my death metal.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Eggs in commercial products either come from free-range, barn, or cage chickens. The vast majority are from caged chickens, although this is slowly changing. Caged chickens are locked in a tiny cramped cage, sometimes strapped down with the
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by nikatwork 10y ago
> The misleading marketing (trumpeting health benefits or - like our parent post - less animal cruelty) If the product truly is free of animal products, then it is most certainly reducing animal cruelty compared with mass-farmed chicke
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by nikatwork 10y ago
...except if all the competitors ask how much the employee was paid at their last gig, so bid $12. Price fixing is an actual thing, that's why we have labor laws. Also see: non-compete agreements.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Depends on your hardware. Some games required extensive noodling with CONFIG.SYS and memory flags to run. This was essentially pre-internet so it sucked unless you had some local help.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
There's an active hobbyist lockpicking community out there with plenty of instructional videos. One could nefariously apply these skills, doesn't make the video producers liable.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
smart != saleable skills
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by nikatwork 10y ago
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan. Some publications toe the party line.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
China uses soft power and regulations to hamper foreign products, especially software. This investment will put Apple in good standing with the govt and could result in an easing of restrictions on Apple's other activities.
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Would Apple allow an app that's ad-free for 30 days then chock full of nagware?
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by nikatwork 10y ago
Github sucks for corporate version control, it's just not designed for the kind of strict role-based change control that enterprise needs. Great support though. I haven't checked out Bitbucket because last time I evaluated (2+ yea
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16yo Australian software tycoon and his DIY tablet kits(abc.net.au)
3 points by nikatwork 10y ago|0 comments
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by nikatwork 11y ago
In most first world countries that sticker would just get your bike taken by the police instead of a thief.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
I've always wanted to build a spring loaded 30cm titanium spike that would shoot from the seat pole through the seat if not disarmed. Obviously completely illegal, but a satisfying mental exercise.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
This is fine if you are feeling young, edgy and indestructible but I would not recommend it to most newbies. Warm dark room with lots of pillows and a good friend is safest.
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by nikatwork 11y ago
Well, this has prompted me to make sure any brand I buy is free from Diacetyl etc. It's not the vaping that's bad per se, it's the chemicals some brands are using in the flavoring.

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