rrrhys

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React Native & Laravel dev.

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Comment · 1 month ago

A guid works fine

Comment · 5 months ago

The book is from 1992.

Comment · 1 year ago

> I can often smell the people around me. Generally, they don’t smell good. I can often hear conversations that are on the other side of the office. (Have you ever tried to add up numbers while someone else says other random numbers at you? It’s like that.) When people walk past my field of vision, I can’t focus on my screen. When I try to tune out all of these distractions, it consumes a lot of energy. Doing it hour after hour, day after day would leave me depleted, exhausted, unable to focus.

I always just thought putting up with this was what I got paid for. Like isn't this why working on-site sucks?

Comment · 1 year ago

I have always followed the same, but also found calendar events are a good carve out to this.

The user doesn't care about the timezone change yesterday (and shouldn't..), they just need to see their meeting at 10am.

Comment · 3 years ago

Company: "Use the app" / cut back front line staff

People: "ugh, I will use the app"

Company: "Look, nobody uses the front line staff"

Comment · 3 years ago

Answer: Let's do neither!

Comment · 4 years ago

My last interaction with it they started showing dialogs telling me I was using the wrong chat tool now.

So I clicked through, and the core functionality of "chat via IM and then spill out to video chat" was nowhere to be found*

*I'm sure it was there somewehere, but I was trying to join a damn meeting not learn a new UI

Comment · 4 years ago

The people are removed from the ordering experience at all McDonalds in my local area (Sydney Australia-ish)

The registers are hidden behind a counter and there's no obvious place to order, unless you use the kiosk.

If you stand at the empty counter for ~5 minutes, a staff member will eventually appear for something else (e.g. to give out an order) and serve you reluctantly - it's awful.

Comment · 4 years ago

We don't have this scam.

We get the car parked in the shopping centre with big "WIN THIS CAR" signs. Entry is $5-10 per ticket though, so it seems feasible there's actually a winner somewhere along the way (My assumption is a Mustang appears in a few shopping centres at once and one is ultimately given away, for example).

Comment · 4 years ago

Comment · 4 years ago

You forgot "The Boats" from the super important stuff list.

Comment · 4 years ago

> I don't think we're in for a "correction"

> Housing will take a 30% haircut, and we'll probably see some of the over-extended corporate debt come to roost as well

What, then, is a correction?

Comment · 4 years ago

Null could imply the field was present and a value not entered or not necessary. Missing could imply the field was never known about at all. The context is important.

Null != missing.

Comment · 4 years ago

I used to have to hit my starter motor with a long pry-bar to get it going.

Now that I've finally got a reliable car and the money for the $20 solenoid we have a saying about cars in general:

Used to have the time but no money, now got the money but no time.

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