colinjoy

Joined 10 years ago

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UX architect for cloudy stuff at a place known mostly for ABAP and to a lesser extend for UX. Previously in love with type setting and book design for the fine arts.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
why would it make any difference for the workload of middle management if their reports are in the office or remote? are they responsible for restocking the coffee machine?
Comment · 3 years ago
> assuming it will work like the iPad Pro

I doubt they would sneak in such a feature without at least mentioning it. I expect this to be even more limited, perhaps just tethered airplay for better resolution.

Comment · 3 years ago
Last time I checked, Germany was located in Europe and twitter.com is most definitely down for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am pressing the retry button as fast as I can to help with recovery. So far, no luck.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance

… up to the amount of 100k per customer, so less than the FDIC guarantee.

There are additional, voluntary, insurances given by groups of banks. These are also limited and customers are not legally guaranteed a payout.

Comment · 3 years ago
As someone who dabbles in code without too much of an idea of what he is doing, using pure functions whenever possible helps me reduce cognitive complexity and makes the code more easily testable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Misconduct. E.g. not fulfilling your contractual duties as an employee or actively causing damage to the company. Still, a warning needs to be issued before a termination in all but the most severe cases.

(Germany)

Comment · 3 years ago
That idea of productivity is odd to me. If I build a house for you and you build a house for me and we both compensate each other with the same $ amount for the work, is that a net productivity of 0? Two new houses got build.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
For me it’s about paying for a slightly smoother UX and for supporting the growth of the Mastodon ecosystem. I hope that good 3rd party apps will eventually also ease the onboarding of less techie audiences.

I hate subs, but I might make an exception here.

Comment · 3 years ago
Surely nobody would use that format and allow a commit message including emojis to cause an effective DOS for a large Sonarqube project.
Comment · 3 years ago
Before you get bombarded with advice on how to make applications pretty, here goes my recommendation for how to get better at designing them:

Read the classics:

  - "The Inmates are running the Asylum" (A. Cooper)
  - "The Design of Everyday Things" (D. Norman) 
  - "Don't Make Me Think" (D. Krug)
Learn how to uncover problems and validate ideas (more books incoming!):

  - "Build Better Products" (L. Klein)
  - "Validating Product Ideas" (T. Sharon)
But above everything else: Build, test (with real users), improve, repeat ... nothing is more educating than watching your users fail to utilize the awesome design that you spent days on perfecting.

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