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by pascalo 12y ago
Good call!
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by pascalo 12y ago
This must be karma for bitching about Apple, but I just opened the lid of my XPS13 and it has a crack in it. I cannot believe it. It feels like groundhog day! In any case, I shall report back on how they handle it. Fired off a twitter messa
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by pascalo 12y ago
Can I just say thank you for all those hours of hard work the maintainers have put in over the years?
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by pascalo 12y ago
Apple's customer service is hell. Don't envy anybody to have to deal with this. The "Cosmetic damage and not covered by warranty" line is similar to what I had as answer when after one week of sitting on a desk without a
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by pascalo 12y ago
Are you guys still going? Thought you had wound up the ops?
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by pascalo 12y ago
In a way I am glad there's issues. My mbp gave up and I was over the whole apple thing, so I went for a previous revision one just around xmas and installed Ubuntu myself (Australia doesn't get the Developer Version). It's a
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by pascalo 12y ago
Here in Australia has 18 weeks at national minimum wage for mums, 2 weeks minimum wage for dad's through the state. I'm German, and am a recent dad I must say that's really not all that good in comparison to my home country.
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by pascalo 12y ago
that's a scummy thing to do. would've taken my hat and left.
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by pascalo 12y ago
Is there a ubuntu ppa for this already?
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by pascalo 12y ago
Recently I marvelled at how far we have come since 1999, and how many changes in focus that meant. Not just tech itself, but also paradigms and methodologies. Like the OP I started doing with design-y tasks as an intern in a web shop. Then
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by pascalo 12y ago
But a serious amount of tech for their time and era/system. They had industrial scale rooms with steamers to open up envelopes and the likes. Also the great east berlin telephone line distribution node: 50 wires coming in, 100 going ou
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by pascalo 12y ago
The Stasi did mail tracking on a massive scale in the GDR before the wall came down. Funny/Sad how things seem to go in circles.
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by pascalo 12y ago
Could you wrap the improvements you're trying to make as something other than accessibility? Making every dynamic control keyboard friendly for example could be sold to the business owner as "for power users", then go, refact
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by pascalo 12y ago
Unfortunately there wasn't much budget for anything beyond the build. But the accessibility audit was lead by visually impaired people, and they did suggest what the benchmark was I had to meet and we iterated over that by me making ch
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by pascalo 12y ago
Good you mention application and ARIA ... I've just come out of a project where the initial brief completely disregarded anything in terms of accessibility. Full on angular app, no native forms or form elements (because they "look
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by pascalo 12y ago
Love that you referenced Comanche ... my favorite helicopter game ever. Nice work on the JS side also!
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by pascalo 12y ago
no go?
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by pascalo 12y ago
All good points, and I agree with you that project management as a task isn't going away. Of course my original comment was coined towards the agency style workplace (and meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek), that's where I experien
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by pascalo 12y ago
I am not sure what SAP and Salesforce have to do with my example of a typical agency environment?
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by pascalo 12y ago
"Developers don't work well with customers" Why does it have to be like that? This sort of silo thinking is probably what created the disconnect in the first place. The customer might care about how things get done, if it mea
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by pascalo 12y ago
Sounds like a nightmare! Nothing worse than an environment where you get blamed for estimating something. I too have worked in places that called themselves Agile but where everything but. On the other hand I also was part of a well adjuste
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by pascalo 12y ago
So, within an SCRUM/agile process, where do you see the PM role? The scrum master? The product owner?
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by pascalo 12y ago
Not really. I'd rather work in an agile team with a proper product owner aka customer on board, where the whole team can discuss cost vs benefit of each individual feature and then act accordingly.
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by pascalo 12y ago
Well, I for once am hoping they don't all come back to haunt me! I've rarely met a good one. In most agency style environments PMs are responsible for the messes that will have to be picked up by the devs, having promised the worl
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by pascalo 12y ago
Yep, Kirchensteuer ... usually between 8% and 9% if you're member of a confession that collects tax. Many people leave the church because of that, but then try and get your son or daughter into one of the many christian nurseries or sc
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by pascalo 12y ago
To add to that: I also think that these days you will need to have some sort of JS framework on top of your server stack. Angular and Ember are bot nice to work with, React would be something I'd look into next time. In this context (R
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by pascalo 12y ago
I am really off the PHP train now, but I'd also recommend to have a close look at http://www.phalconphp.com/en/ . Their approach is to have the whole framework compiled as an extension. Seems well documented. Pers
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by pascalo 12y ago
What really always rubbed me up the wrong way was approaching me to come up with the question "OK, how long then?". Because "managers" tend to ask this when neither scope nor current state of the project are visible, and
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by pascalo 12y ago
Yep, broadband speed here in Australia is pretty bad overall, and the contracts are very expensive, and most are capped for bandwidth as well. I am on an unmetered contract with TPG, but they're the exception. I was holding out for the
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by pascalo 12y ago
Thanks. Will give that a read. Edit: Very interesting read liked from there ... https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/reactjs/eUespJPdyas/...

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