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Dragony

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About Dragony

My Blog: https://ma.ttias.ch

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    I actually worked on an App for a company that made home appliances. Originally they made everything local, so direct App to Washing machine communication. They had a really hard t…

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    Comment #33788077

    Many things in this article, especially about the problems with the Data Science role, resonate with me (low value work with low expectations for quality). Funny thing is I have ne…

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    Comment #31155035

    Sadly there are a number of functions in the PHP standard library that literally never can return true. Often they return a resource or false, for example. In those cases the `fals…

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    Comment #30538781

    Generally speaking software makes things faster, not better. Good software for a bad process will simply expedite problems.

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    Comment #29779912

    I've thought for a while that this kind of change for the sake of change is fuelled by the number of employees in the companies involved. The ratio of developers you need to build …

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    Comment #28664136

    In general estimates are risk assessments. With that in mind, I think the way to go about estimates depends on the experience level of the indivual or team. The best estimates are …

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    Ask HN: What are some front end templates with great code quality?

    Hello! For sideprojects I often find myself looking for an HTML template I can adapt, instead of doing everything myself. The problem I often run into is that most templates look g…

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    Comment #26592589

    Think of it this way: It's a social contract between the company and the employee that you will spend your time on something valuable to both the company and you. In larger organis…

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    From my experience as participant in these kind of systems, this is what I think: These systems have the goal to create buy-in from the employee to perform at a certain level. Sinc…

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    Comment #26309626

    SEEKING WORK | Switzerland | Remote Technical Project Manager Seeking part-time or contract work as project manager, project consultant or agile coach. I am a technical project man…

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    Comment #24094901

    This is something I made as entertainment for my significant other: https://wasd.ch/keyboard/ I had some spare time and decided to code something small that would be a fun timewast…