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by rovek 9y ago
Citing such a list shows a fairly comprehensive void of understanding British culture. Guy Fawkes is pretty high on that list for a home-grown, treasonous terrorist, wouldn't you say? Just below Bowie.
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by rovek 9y ago
This will be an incredibly useful, accessible case study the next time I need to push back on "can we add a confirmation popup?" with corporate bods.
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by rovek 9y ago
An important lesson in "Don't teach your users to ignore confirmation dialogs" that all designers need to learn or teach their clients/POs.
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by rovek 9y ago
Many services now allow password reset by email (magic link), Cierge's approach just does away with the illusion of security employed by such services. Outsourcing authentication to email, as many services do with Google/Facebook&
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by rovek 9y ago
Same. If Uber were to stop operating in London I would just take the Night Tube home or not go out (weekdays).
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by rovek 9y ago
> non-decentralized Is there a difference between centralised and non-decentralised?
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by rovek 9y ago
Spoiler alert: This is satire. Calm down.
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by rovek 9y ago
The U.S or North Korean leader?
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by rovek 9y ago
I'm just trying to get over how strange a term "Nuclear family" is and how its meaning is so mundane.
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by rovek 9y ago
> including developers in the design review process I was banging this drum for 2 years at my previous employer. I was always told it's a great idea but the people who knew projects were coming down the line just never reached out t
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by rovek 9y ago
The question I often end up asking myself is "what possible reason could this website think I have for wanting notifications from them?", this site being a great example. I guess the sad reality is they want you to just dismiss th
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by rovek 9y ago
I don't see this as Intel biased, in the "The bang for buck stops here" the author very clearly points out that the AMD CPU is vastly more cost effective for likely scenarios. Though saying it's a Mobo and a decent SSD s
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by rovek 9y ago
Interesting that this is being framed as an Uber transgression when Apple should take the rap for even creating this permission in the first place.
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by rovek 9y ago
This is my experience in the UK. After a little under a decade in SWE I've consistently seen contractors grossing about 3x the salary of full time employees, with little prospects of "promotion" for engineers without changing
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by rovek 9y ago
I would suggest a lot of fake news is sparked by a headline and an article that goes largely unread.
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by rovek 9y ago
This confused me as well. The chart leaves much to be desired if the quote is accurate.
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by rovek 9y ago
It's perfectly relevant when questioning whether or not the same scrutiny is applied to all players or if TfL are just trying to make headlines attacking the big fish.
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by rovek 9y ago
Does the author's motivation have any bearing on the facts of Booking.com's website behaviour?
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by rovek 9y ago
From a user perspective, validated only by other engineer-friends, Snapchat is a pretty sketchy app. The UX diverges from common design principles of both major mobile OS, making it feel awkward. The app slaughters batteries in Android phon
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by rovek 9y ago
Speaking as an engineer regularly hiring engineers, it depends on the hiring company. Assuming that one is interviewing for a benevolent and altruistic employer - who values and rewards positive, talented employees - one could afford to be
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by rovek 9y ago
I went to a wedding in the countryside last year (5 miles from a decent town, hardly remote) and was reminded of how things still are outside cities. I literally could not get a taxi from the local firms and had to wait for a guest driving
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by rovek 9y ago
Pretty incredible that a self-proclaimed IOTA adviser thought it prudent to attack the author in public[0]. [0] - https://medium.com/@jer979/disclosure-im-an-advisor-to-iota-...
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by rovek 9y ago
For this reason the article seems at least a little alarmist. It wouldn't be news that Estonian politics is delving into censorship/surveillance; tacking on "EU Presidency" just ads faux-gravitas.
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by rovek 9y ago
Confirm dismissal of a notification is one of my biggest of myriad gripes with atrocious iOS design after 4 months.
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by rovek 9y ago
You must be on some sort of special version. Scrolling provides me with an additional social bar and removes nothing
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by rovek 9y ago
> True but then isn't incumbent on those around the jerk to say"not cool." Bottom line is a hostile workplace is a hostile workplace whether from assholery or blatant sexual harassment. I agree that the general takeaway sh
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by rovek 9y ago
Depends on the country. England has 8 public holidays, Scotland seems to have ~10 though.
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by rovek 9y ago
> We train people to become software engineers, and we charge nothing until a student gets a software job that pays more than $50k/yr. At that point we take 17% of income for two years (capped at a maximum of $30k total). This is si
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by rovek 9y ago
Sounds like your chosen solution (junior developers) doesn't meet your requirement (time- and cost-efficient development).
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by rovek 9y ago
This is exactly the kind of article I expect a tl;dr on, I actually looked for it to save myself opening the article, scanning for "referer" and then closing it immediately (which I did because the tl;dr was so low) I think this i

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