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by paulojreis 11y ago
This is so blatantly incompetent that I can only imagine the situation being a result of corporate dance . While there are many oblivious developers, I highly doubt that incompetence was the root cause. I'd point to a lovely mix of a
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by paulojreis 11y ago
It was a nice surprise to see this on #1 here on HN. Farewell, Major Tom.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Not the OP, but I do this more frequently than I should - probably just to think 'ah, noobs, they didn't minify their JS'. :)
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Location: Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Discussable Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Frameworks: Backbone.js, AngularJS. Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt and Gulp) Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/tF0qjH Email: [My
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by paulojreis 11y ago
That will depend on how long the game has been rolling, workforce-wise. For permanent employees, there's severance payment when firing someone. The amount depends on how long the employee has been in the company, as well as when the co
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'm not really well informed about this, but here - when a company "closes" - they're assigned (by the state) a insolvency manager. From that point on, the manager will hire whoever he sees fit to handle the spoils, so t
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'm sorry you had to handle such situations. I always had the feeling that we (Portugal) are very good at producing engineers, but not so good at producing citizens . I work for a rather big german company and they dislocated some stu
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by paulojreis 11y ago
My father actually started his career as a math teacher, but he could also (obviously) teach chemistry. But private tutoring here is hell. Teachers are probably the most unemployed skilled professionals in Portugal. As you can imagine, one
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I agree. I haven't met such extreme cases, but I've seen situations where the employee simply did not have the competence nor the will to acquire it. Lack of a given competence is tolerable, but not trying to address that limitati
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by paulojreis 11y ago
That's something employers usually complain about. Portuguese legislation was mostly written in a socialist-led post-revolution period, so you certainly have a point. But what was your biggest issue with employment laws, here? The comp
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Different for different people, different for different points in time for the same people (e.g. when parenting arrives)... Modeling life is hard. :)
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I don't believe user interfaces could be evaluated in such a quantitative and useful way, as you describe. You could slap some number in there, but that doesn't make it useful. Bear in mind that the UI itself is just a part of the
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I always had the struggles of the slightly older job seekers close to my heart. It's just something that employment policy doesn't address adequately. My father is in that situation - which is why, obviously, I feel it so close.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I think the thing about life is that its complexity can't be reduced to a list of criteria.
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> Someone has to keep the developers busy for the 40 hours a week they must be in their chairs to get paid. I thought Hacker News and Reddit handled that. :
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Oh, crap. What you have done... How am I supposed to leave the house, now? :) BTW: found this gem for brain-science junkies: http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-79928-0 - Neurobiology of Decision-Makin
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> The point of UI/UX/HUI guidelines is to ensure consistency of applications' look&feel. That's not the focus of UX, at all. Consistency is not an end in itself, it's just a way to achieve predictability and,
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by paulojreis 11y ago
They were always big on doing "brilliant" things for developers, at least since my career started (around 2006). I went to a few Microsoft developer events and it was really obvious that they cared a lot about developer experience
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I agree with you. What I see (in this article and many other similar statements) is the rationalization of being part of evil and then the next logical step, the rationalization of doing it without feeling guilty or bad. "I have to d
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> The Greeks work the longest hours in Europe but anybody who has been to Germany and Greece would probably tell you that the Germans probably work harder. I don't agree with the "work harder" motive. I'm a Portuguese
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I think the biggest problem is users losing the battle. Do users really want more crapware? More distractions?
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I wouldn't want such thing. I like focused products. But the geek opinion-makers in the web like buzzwords such as "convergence" and "hybrids". It seems relevant, because opinion-makers talk about it, but - at least
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by paulojreis 11y ago
This is sad for me, not exactly by the Microsoft "win", but by the Apple "loss". Yes, you can call me a devotee if you like. What I feel is that the only company which cares (cared?) for design (bear in mind: true desi
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I absolutely agree; that's how it should happen. My main contempt is that, in reality, it doesn't. You get "implementation" guys writing user stories, and - in many ways - implementation model thrown into usage model. An
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by paulojreis 11y ago
> I've been in many projects where people would iterate numerous times over architecture while completely forgetting what real-world problem they are actually trying to solve. Architecture becoming art pour l'art. I completely
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by paulojreis 11y ago
My concern with this (and my general pet peeve with the "user stories" in software engineering) is: how do we make sure the "user stories" are faithful to real-world usage of the software being built? tl;dr: how do we kn
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by paulojreis 11y ago
SEEKING WORK | Location: Portugal / Remote Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Frameworks: Backbone.js, AngularJS. Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt and Gulp). Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/tF0qjH Email: [My HN username] [
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Location: Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Discussable Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Frameworks: Backbone.js, AngularJS. Others: SASS, tooling (Grunt and Gulp) Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/tF0qjH Email: [My
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by paulojreis 11y ago
I'd be very, very happy to contribute to this. It seems you have a nice focus in usability - efficacy, efficiency and satisfaction. For me, it seems vital to make IT useful and not a burden, reducing clinicians wasted time on non-clini
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by paulojreis 11y ago
Slightly off topic, but I don't think that the argument "capitalism is the system which worked better) is valid. It's not that it's wrong, per se, but I think it's an implication of mankind evolution and not the cap

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