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by paulojreis 10y ago
I agree with you. But the "question" of the parent post was "I have no idea why this doesn't happen more often, it's not difficult to do in any reasonably sized company", and I was just trying to give a possibl
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by paulojreis 10y ago
I work at a German company, currently, and have been dealing with someone which - IMO - should be fired. I can understand what you say about not resorting immediately to drastic measures, and my company is actually trying (too hard, again I
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Just my two cents, as someone completely oblivious about management: maybe because previous performance, while not great a indicator, is the best predictor of future performance? To put it more obviously, as a manager of "another part&
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by paulojreis 10y ago
Much like communism, right?
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by paulojreis 10y ago
... just be glad that you have the heuristic implemented in your head. :)
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by paulojreis 10y ago
The Portuguese case study says that it's really not a bad idea (though not referring specifically the increasing or diminishing illegal business, just less "street value") [1][2]. But I agree with your corollary. [1] https:&
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Oh, great, so it still happens? I really found the "obsolete" status on the issue rather strange, but (as I'm not using Android anymore) it was really just a suspicion. If it happens to you, maybe you could create a new issue
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I remember 7 years ago following this one: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1109 (Alarm clock produces no sound or vibration). I was an "early adopter" of Android and, as result of
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by paulojreis 11y ago
... except for power. Damn Apple for replacing the MagSafe with USB Type-C.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> You must live in a different Portugal than the one I know. Everybody does, right? It's my perception, as you have yours. From where I stand, laws are ignored as if they didn't exist, people care only about themselves and the
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Portuguese here. Same crap, everyday, everywhere. :)
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by paulojreis 11y ago
"AngularJS for the front end allows someone who sucks at front end work to be able to produce some pretty useful interfaces". That's actually a nice way to explain its success, for better and for worst. Spot on, IMO.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Yes, you're right. I think we're starting to see many reactions like "oh, it's just another diet fad" because exactly of what you describe, things being taken to extremes. Anyway, what I recommend - from what I gath
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I fail to see the point of making that point, sorry.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I think that simplicity still applies, even in interfaces which aren't considered simple . It's just a matter of how you conceive simplicity. John Maeda talks about "thoughful reduction". It's not less for the sa
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Aren't they?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Yeah, that's true. My nutritionist-wannabe facet is also mesmerized by this, and I can't avoid preaching this to everyone - try to limit added sugar as much as you can. Use artificial sweeteners if you really need; they may be
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by paulojreis 11y ago
You're quoting a physicist. Nutrition isn't a science as hard as physics. As a given science subject moves away to more complex system (human organisms, social organisms), the notion of light (or the truth ) gets rather diffu
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Good question. I think so, but I'll give you the hipster answer (which is also true): I haven't been watching enough TV...
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Yeah, it is interesting. And it's not only with Pantone. I think it happens when a brand is popular (generally, or within a niche such as Pantone within the design community), we "adopt" the word with local phonetics. For ins
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by paulojreis 11y ago
While speaking English, I say "Pan Tone". But my first language is Portuguese; while speaking Portuguese, I (and I think most natives) say "Pan-tawh-ne".
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Actually, I'd advice to pick the primary color from a Pantone catalogue, while checking (and testing) its screen (RGB) and print/process (CMYK) versions.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
If I were to sum up the number of seconds your work saved (and still saves) me, I'd get an integer overflow. May whatever supernatural entities you believe in be with you, man. I deeply, deeply thank you for your work.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Yeah, having been dealt a very nice hand career-wise (i.e. being a software developer today) is really making us divas. And I say "divas" refraining myself; there other "names", more derogatory but also more explicit, to
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Location: Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Discussable Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Frameworks: AngularJS, Backbone.js. Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt and Gulp) GitHub: https://github.com/paulojreis Résumé&#x
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by paulojreis 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote (EU based, WET/GMT timezone) Front-end developer and UX researcher/analyst/designer. Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS; Frameworks: AngularJS, Backbone.js; Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt and Gulp). GitHu
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Despite the obvious considerations du jour , this reminds me of something which happened years ago, against SecondLife. It was something like a campaign, named "Get a first life", with a very apt slogan along the lines of &quot
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I was reading your point (quite well put, actually) and thinking about how the Big Corp™ world is the exact opposite of the example you mention - failed start-ups. Big Corp™ initiatives succeed, even though - by my standards - I feel they
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> (You can create systems for enabling median folk to accomplish things, even if they are disinterested. We call it "bureaucracy", and it sucks, but a lot of the time it kinda-sorta works. A bit.) Yeah, it's true. And the
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I've been having some trainings on agility and software development, at an european Big Corp™ (where I work). Here at european Big Corp™, management is worried that our size is making us slow, and they also want to be cool like the sta

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