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colinjoy

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About colinjoy

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 #39718162

    https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/apples-enterprise-evolutio... (2018)

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    Comment #37961401

    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?

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    Comment #37485759

    > 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 ai…

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    Comment #35652004

    Last time I checked, Germany was located in Europe and twitter.com is most definitely down for me.

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    Comment #35651997

    I am pressing the retry button as fast as I can to help with recovery. So far, no luck.

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    Comment #35135316

    > 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,…

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    Ask HN: How to identify a good quality electronics

    The market seems to be full of white label products sold by no-name asian vendors and established brands alike. You get the exact same box with a different logo slapped onto it, or…

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    Comment #35027768

    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 …

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    Comment #34819481

    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 bu…

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    Comment #34806632

    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…

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    Comment #34476429

    > They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc… You sure? I would be surprised if MS, Google and Amazon are the same when it comes to how they handle and use PII. Not…

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    Comment #34411481

    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 onboardin…

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    Comment #34350347

    Surely nobody would use that format and allow a commit message including emojis to cause an effective DOS for a large Sonarqube project.

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    Comment #34312671

    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 …

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    Comment #34232948

    Even if that was true (which I believe it is not), wouldn't that already constitute "interest in dealing with businesses"? They want businesses to buy iDevices and use them for bus…

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    Comment #34231984

    I think you may be wrong here. There is a consumerisation of the enterprise IT and Apple is happy to grab a big piece of that cake (and not unsuccessful) when it comes to push thei…

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    Comment #34231888

    While AWS, GCP and Azure are all moving towards offering more higher level services(?), I think it is fair to say that when "competing with AWS" is on the table, people associate i…

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    Comment #34231801

    I think it is more likely that we will see an Apple Coffee Machine. I could see them utilizing their silicone expertises and some creative thinking to launch an espresso capsule su…

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    Comment #34032715

    For some reason I just had WireCard cross my mind.

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    Comment #34032125

    Self-hosted Drupal is an open source, community run project, that is free as in beer. A lot of headless CMS are SaaS products, it seems. Apples and oranges. Is there a good resourc…

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    Comment #33951486

    Given how subscription models are also pushed down the throat of consumers, who do not want them, I would believe that the love for ARR plays an even bigger role.

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    Comment #33593424

    What constitutes good quality glasses? Or rather: good quality lenses? The frames are mostly a matter of taste, but for the optical component, is a €150 piece of glass significantl…

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    Comment #33437454

    Probably less related to C++ as a language and more so an "embedded" issue or down to the specific industry that your friend is in. E.g., there are hundreds of C++ devs at my compa…

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    Comment #33403966

    s/make/keep … bad choice of words on my behalf. Argument remains the same.